Prom 39: Spaghetti Western Orchestra – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonEnnio Morricone is one of the best loved of all film composers, and his scores for Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns are among the best loved of all. Rightly so, too, because they are unique in the extent to which they stretch out Leone's magisterially conceived and frankly operatic tableau, offering a unique degree of integration between score, dialogue and the general soundscape. But the disconnect between Hollywood westerns and Leone and Morricone's aestheticised appr...

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