MORRICONE ENNIO SACCO Y VANZETTI

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Ennio Morricone is well known in the film music business for his westerns and mafia film scores. But in his enormous output one can also find gems in many other genres. Sacco and Vanzetti was a film by Italian director Giuliano Montaldo about the execution of two apparent political agitators in the 1920s. With this film Morricone found a wonderful opportunity for blending his masterful melodramatic themes with a vocal performance of enormous magnitude: that of Joan Baez. Baez, also a socially active voice in the early sixties (at those times in good company with the likes of Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel), complemented Morricone's main theme in such a way that it has transcended the borders of film music and has become an immortal ballad for freedom and liberty for all. Her three part ballad is heartwrenchingly beautiful and poignant, even thirty years later. The lyrics are based on the texts of the liberties and rights of the individual in the USA ("give me your...Read more

The music is beautiful and there's no doubt about it. What I want to say is:- Do not feel sad if can't get a copy of this CD from Amazon or any other place.

The fact is you can pay less and get more if you purchase another edition (issued in UK, the cover is a pair of hands in handcuffs). Check the following web page and you will find out. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008WT13/qid=1116605202/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-0324904-8460049?v=glance&s=music

How do I know? Why? Because... I bought both of them from Amazon at the same time -__-... (tears of joy????)