The romantic side of Maestro Morricone contrasts the dramatic side of
Thriller and Crime genre where dissonances always dominate. For TIE ME
UP! (1989), Morricone composed a delicate love theme for his one and
only collaboration with the great Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar.
For FOR LOVE (1976), he created a motif for piano and orchestra as a
background to a love triangle. The first sexual experiences of a
teenager with older women at the end of the war in DISOBEDIENCE (1981)
are accompanied by piano, strings, and oboe. “Desperate love theme” from
MAKING LOVE (2000) is a very nostalgic classic tune for violin and
orchestra. “Per le antica scale (Preludio)” from DOWN THE ANCIENT STAIRS
(1975) is a captivating, slow and sensual, love tune for piano and
orchestra with a predominant flute solo. “Beata and Joe” from THE STAR
MAKER (1995), a sentimental theme for the two protagonists performed by
an orchestra with the intervention of a classical guitar in the second
part. The crystal voice of soprano Edda Dell’Orso appears very
frequently in Ennio Morricone’s soundtracks as in the case of THE GOOD
THIEF (1980), THE MASTER AND MARGARITA (1972), WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO
SOLANGE? (1972), ORIENT EXPRESS (1979).
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