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FA6303 Il successo / The Success
Auther: Jonathan Broxton

ENNIO MORRICONE REVIEWS, Part I

IL SUCCESSO (1963)

Il Successo is an Italian comedy-drama starring Vittorio Gassman, Anouk Aimée, and Jean-Louis Trintignant, directed by Mauro Morassi, and produced by legendary Italian filmmaker Mario Cecchi Gori. Gassman plays Giulio, a middle-aged man dissatisfied with his life, who hatches a plan to find away out of his dull white-collar job – a property scam involving some land in rural Sardinia. However, as Giorgio desperately tries to come up with the 10 million liras he needs to start his investment to buy that land, his increasingly hare-brained schemes begin to make him more and more estranged from his wife and his best friend.

Morricone’s score for Il Successo is fun and lively, with a strong emphasis on jazz, big band, and swing music typical of the era. The main theme, “Il Successo,” is a virtuoso piece for finger-snapping brasses and hip, toe-tapping percussion, highlighted by a vivid and impressionistic trumpet solo half way through the piece. The soundtrack also spawned a handful of Italian pop songs performed by canto artists Rita Pavona, Enrico Polito, Gino Paoli, and Rosy.

The best release of the soundtrack is the version which came out in 2007 on the GDM Music label, which pairs around 23 minutes of score from Il Successo with selections of music from the score for the 1966 film Agent 505 – Todesfalle Beirut. Again, “Il Successo” can be found on the comprehensive 15-CD compilation Ennio Morricone: The Complete Edition, released by GDM Music in 2008.

Track Listing: 1. Il Successo (Titoli) (2:02), 2. Per Vittoria (Bossa) (4:02), 3. Con Eleganza (3:14), 4. Malinconico (1:58), 5. Il Successo Twist (2:42), 6. Sarabanda Triste (2:05), 7. Allegra Sambina (2:29), 8. Per Vittorio (2:02), 9. Il Successo (Finale) (2:10). GDM Music 4012, 22 minutes 44 seconds.
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Il Successo (Titoli) (02:02)
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Per Vittoria (Bossa) (04:02)
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Con Eleganza (03:14)
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Malinconico (01:58)
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Il Successo Twist (02:42)
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Sarabanda Triste (02:05)
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Allegra Sambina (02:29)
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Per Vittorio (02:02)
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Il Successo (Finale) (02:10)
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Attachment: About Jonathan Broxton
Jon is a film music critic and journalist, who since 1997 has been the editor and chief reviewer for Movie Music UK, one of the world’s most popular English-language film music websites, and is the president of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA). Over the last 20+ years Jon has written over 3,000 reviews and articles and conducted numerous composer interviews. In print, Jon has written reviews and articles for publications such as Film Score Monthly, Soundtrack Magazine and Music from the Movies, and has written liner notes for two of Prometheus Records’ classic Basil Poledouris score releases, “Amanda” and “Flyers/Fire on the Mountain”. He also contributed a chapter to Tom Hoover’s book “Soundtrack Nation: Interviews with Today’s Top Professionals in Film, Videogame, and Television Scoring”, published in 2011. In the late 1990s Jon was a film music consultant to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and worked with them on the films “Relative Values” with music by John Debney, and “The Ring of the Buddha” with music by Oliver Heise, as well as on a series of concerts with Randy Newman. In 2012, Jon chaired one of the “festival academies” at the 5th Annual Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland. He is a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the premier nonprofit organization for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working motion pictures, television, and multimedia. (Here)
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