Unfortunately, only one hall is out of the question, if a legend of the canvas takes your farewell: the greatest. Ennio Morricone breaks in his 91. Year of life his last tour with the orchestra and the choir, in the summer you will find in Lucca to an end. The Berlin Benz-Arena is the only Station in Germany, the giant oval is sold out. 11 000 people are expecting the narrow, mens black turtleneck sweater, Maestro name as it is in the Guild of composers for centuries usual. Only it has none of Morricone’s predecessors bring to 500 film scores, of which more than a handful of even millions of people reached, moving.
Sentimental but Morricone, the master of suspense, Emotion, the evening is not to be. Also a Best-of-Mix is out of the question for the man who imputes it as a merit to have the masses at least a sliver of modern music cheered. For the first time his musicians to record the char travel, the Czech National Symphony orchestra, the choirs from Romania and Hungary. For “The untouchables” aggravated Morricone, the relentlessness of passing time. A masterpiece in 2 minutes 15 seconds, its complexity is revealed live only in approaches. to is
Morricone’s oratorio “The Mission” the final
Great Morricone composed for the Instrument that he studied the trumpet. Whether as a melancholic flugelhorn and threatening beacon, the soloist in the orchestra a lot to see on the video, the stage screens to the side. You don’t show around film sequences that you wander about the orchestra and rest on the conductors. Sitting at the Desk in his study room, looking deeply into the scores lowered, the page for page seconds by.
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With the “gold rush” from “the good, the bad and the ugly”, in addition to reel in the break, with Tarantino’s “Hateful 8”, for the Morricone finally got the Oscar won, begins thundering in the second half. You discovered Early and critical Social, black-and-white worlds of music, whose heart beats in the style of Kurt Weill to the left. Dulce Pontes donated their throaty Flamenco voice, in the “battle of Algiers” is dying humanity, while “The Damned of war” can find no peace. Of course, sounds Morricone’s oratorio “The Mission” as final, even if the acoustic groans at the climax. “Cinema Paradiso” smoothes the waves, then the last notes are “Abolicao” the call to freedom. Anyone who knows the Film? Morricone puts aside the baton. In the future, he wants to compose and share your pictures.