The expanded version of this score (over 120 minutes of music) is available at the following link. However, right now it's out of stock. Perhaps if you write to Douglass Fake (I've known him for more than 30 years and is my oldest friend) and ask if he's getting anymore in, he'd appreciate it.
got to www.intrada.com. then click on catalogue by composer. then click on Ennio Morricone, then scroll down to Marco Polo.
There could actually be a third disk added to this to bring out just about all the music from the mini-series, but this 2-disk set is glorious.
I'm a huge Morricone fan, have been one since "A Fistful of Dollars" first hit these shores in 1966 (and he wasn't even credited as Morricone in the credits, but as Dan Savio, because the producers were afraid of being taken as an Italian movie since Italy had made so many sword and sandal movies, and we know how critics loved those, right?), so for me to say this is one of my favorite Morricone scores is really saying something.
Another score that is very high on my list is his rejected score to "What Dreams May Come". Someone recorded about 28 minutes of that score and released to. I have a copy, and it is magnificent.
But if you can get "Marco POlo", do so!
got to www.intrada.com. then click on catalogue by composer. then click on Ennio Morricone, then scroll down to Marco Polo.
There could actually be a third disk added to this to bring out just about all the music from the mini-series, but this 2-disk set is glorious.
I'm a huge Morricone fan, have been one since "A Fistful of Dollars" first hit these shores in 1966 (and he wasn't even credited as Morricone in the credits, but as Dan Savio, because the producers were afraid of being taken as an Italian movie since Italy had made so many sword and sandal movies, and we know how critics loved those, right?), so for me to say this is one of my favorite Morricone scores is really saying something.
Another score that is very high on my list is his rejected score to "What Dreams May Come". Someone recorded about 28 minutes of that score and released to. I have a copy, and it is magnificent.
But if you can get "Marco POlo", do so!