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"The Ecstasy of Gold" (Italian: "L'estasi dell'oro") is a musical composition by Ennio Morricone, part of his score for the 1966 Sergio Leone film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It is played while Tuco ( Eli Wallach ) is frantically searching a cemetery for the grave that holds $200,000 in gold coins.
The album Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone sold more than 130,000 copies in 2004. [163] Metallica has used Morricone's "The Ecstasy of Gold" as an intro at their concerts since 1983 (shock jocks Opie and Anthony also used the song at the start of their XM Satellite Radio and CBS Radio shows.)
The film's famous climax, a three-way Mexican standoff, begins with the melody of "The Ecstasy of Gold" and is followed by "The Trio". The main theme was a hit in 1968. The soundtrack album was on the charts for more than a year, [2] reaching No. 4 on the Billboard pop album chart and No. 10 on the black album chart. [4]
She has also been the main performer on the Italian opening performance of La gatta inglese (The English Cat) by Henze at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Susanna Rigacci alternates her concert performance with chamber music repertory and since 2001 has been a frequent performer with Ennio Morricone on his concert tours throughout Europe and ...
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In Morricone's film scores of the original Spaghetti Westerns directed by Sergio Leone, her dramatic voice was deployed as an instrument for the first time and to revolutionary effect, [3] such as in A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (in particular for "The Ecstasy of Gold" track) and Once Upon a Time in the West.
Ennio Morricone. This is a selected list of music artists who have covered or sampled one or more songs which were composed by the Italian composer Ennio Morricone.Over the past 7 decades, Ennio Morricone has composed over 500 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works.
Ennio Morricone receives the Per Artem ad Deum Medal (English: Through Arts to God) from archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi in 2012. Ennio Morricone, OMRI [1] (Italian: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]; 10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player who wrote music in a wide range of styles.