ボーナスとして、1966年の低予算映画「ZORRO IL RIBELLE」のために特別に作曲されたオリジナル・サウンドトラックもCDの最後に収録されています。この映画は、ピエロ・ピエロッティが監督し、ハワード・ロス（ゾロ役）、ディナ・デ・サンティス、アルトゥーロ・ドミニチ、チャールズ・ブロメルが出演した、西部劇と冒険映画の両方の側面を持つ映画です。この映画では、ラヴァニーノが以前に作曲した冒険活劇音楽の中から重要なキューを再利用していたため、彼は12～13分の新しい音楽（主にいくつかのフラメンコダンスと2つの剣戟シーンの音楽）を作曲し、このCDに使用することができました。
Alhambra Records proudly presents on this CD the world premiere release of Angelo Francesco Lavagnino’s complete original score for the 1965 Italian western GLI UOMINI DAL PASSO PESANTE (US title: THE TRAMPLERS) which had been co-directed by the Italian Mario Sequi and the American producer Albert Band. Experienced US character actor Joseph Cotten stars as a Southern Colonel (a role he should repeat one year later in Sergio Corbucci´s I CRUDELI) who refuses to give up the fight after the Civil War has ended whereas his son Lon with whom he gets into conflict is played by former muscleman star Gordon Scott. The supporting roles are filled by Franco Nero (just one year before his Django fame) and Jim Mitchum, the son of Robert Mitchum.
Although released in late 1965, the movie contains many ingredients which still link it to some of the more mature US westerns from the 1950s which had depicted a similar family feud. It also focuses more attention on the psychologies and motivations of the main characters than the standard Italian western fare of that period. On the other hand, the excessive violence of the action scenes is of course unmistakably that of the Italian western genre so much in vogue at that time.
At the beginning of the film Lon Cordeen who had fought for the Confederate Army returns home and becomes witness to the regime of terror his father leads by killing any Northerners who come into his way. A huge family feud erupts when Lon disregards his father´s orders to kill or at least run out of town the local settler Charlie Garvey, a suitor for one of Lon´s sisters, Bess. Together with his younger brother Hoby he helps Charlie to elope with Bess and embarks on a cattle drive venture to the North with them. In the end most of the family members will get killed whereas Temple himself loses all sense of reality and falls more and more into madness.
As well as the movie itself, Lavagnino´s score ? certainly one of his best he has written for this genre ? also harkens back more to the traditional style of classic US westerns than to the innovative sound world that Ennio Morricone had already created for the Italian western genre in 1964. His propulsive principal theme which gets introduced in the Main Title is a highly melodic, fast-paced tune full of rousing excitement and unstoppable energy which immediately grabs the listener´s attention. It will recur in various guises throughout the film and is equally capable of being intimately rendered for example by a lonely harmonica or in a more somber and muted vein played by electric organ and guitar. Besides this domineering main theme Lavagnino has also supplied a couple of additional romantic themes: A warm-hearted family theme exudes a nostalgic flair with fragile memories of a time long lost whereas the love scenes between the two couples Lon and Edith and Charlie and Bess shine with Lavagnino´s characteristic use of sensual high strings. One of the highlights of the score is the sumptuous cattle drive music which is set for full orchestra with appropriate French horn accompaniment and which radiates a sense of genuine epic grandeur and of wide-open spaces.
As a bonus we have added at the end of the CD all the original music which had been especially composed for the low-budget genre movie ZORRO IL RIBELLE in 1966. Partly western and partly adventure movie, the picture was directed by Piero Pierotti and starred Howard Ross (as Zorro), Dina De Santis, Arturo Dominici and Charles Burromel. As many important cues in the film had been recycled from earlier swashbuckler scores by Lavagnino, he just wrote about 12-13 minutes of new music ? mainly a few flamenco dances and music for two sword fight sequences - which we could use for this CD.
This wonderful CD project ? the 15th CD in our Lavagnino series ? has only been possible thanks to the generous support of the three daughters of the composer ? Bianca, Iudica and Alessandra Lavagnino -, who still had open reel tape copies of the original master tapes in their personal archive which we were allowed to use. Our CD edition which contains a 16-page booklet with extensive liner notes and numerous colour stills from the two movies is limited to 400 copies.
トラックリスト
GLI UOMINI DAL PASSO PESANTE (1965) 1.The Stagecoach - Main Title 2.After the Lynching - Lon and Edith 3.Lon Comes Home 4.The Cordeen Family 5.Lon and Hoby - Temple's Plan 6.Riding Away - Lon and His Mother 7.Lon and Hoby Meet Charlie Garvey and Bess - Charlie Marries Bess 8.Surprise Visitors 9.Leaving Town - Pardners 10.Lon and Charlie Build a Wooden Cabin 11.Hired Killers 12.Lon Rides Back 13.Meeting Edith Again - On to the Family Ranch 14.The Cordeen Family Breaks Apart 15.Hoby's Disillusionment 16.Roundup 17.Cattle Drive 18.Plans for the Future - Family Feud 19.Edith Returns 20.Riding into Town - Edith Confronts Temple 21.Temple's Descent into Madness 22.Back Home 23.Finale
Bonus Tracks from "Gli Uomini Dal Passo Pesante" 24.Main Theme - Demo Track 25.Square Dance 26.Saloon Piano
ZORRO IL RIBELLE (1966) 27.Main Title* 28.Village Dance 29.Guitar Duo - Festive Dance 30.Zorro Intervenes 31.In the Tavern 32.Father Carmelo and the Rebels 33.Zorro Hides 34.Wedding Ceremony 35.The Rebels Gather*
マリオ・セキとアメリカのアルバート・バンドが共同監督した1965年のマカロニ・ウエスタン「荒野の渡り者」のアンジェロ・フランチェスコ・ラヴァニーノによるオリジナル・コンプリート・スコアが世界初CD化！アメリカのベテラン俳優ジョセフ・コットンが、南北戦争が終わっても戦いをあきらめない南部の大佐（この役は1年後にセルジオ・コルブッチ監督の『黄金の棺』で繰り返すことになる）を演じる一方、彼と対立する息子のロンを元マッスルマン、ゴードン・スコットが演じている。脇を固めるのは、『ジャンゴ』の名声を得るわずか1年前のフランコ・ネロと、ロバート・ミッチャムの息子ジム・ミッチャムである。
トラックリスト1965年末に公開されたこの映画には、同じような家族の確執を描いていた1950年代の成熟したアメリカ西部劇につながる要素が多く含まれている。また、当時の標準的なイタリア西部劇よりも、主要登場人物の心理や動機に焦点が当てられている。一方、アクションシーンの過剰な暴力性は、もちろん当時流行していたイタリア西部劇のものである。
映画の冒頭、南軍で戦っていたロン・コーディーンが家に戻り、父親が北軍人を殺すという恐怖政治を目撃する。ロンの妹ベスの求婚者である地元入植者チャーリー・ガーベイを殺すか、少なくとも町から追い出すようにという父の命令をロンが無視したことから、家族の大きな確執が勃発する。弟のホビーと一緒にチャーリーがベスと駆け落ちするのを手伝い、彼らと共に北へ向かう牛追いの旅に出ます。結局、家族のほとんどが殺されてしまうが、テンプル自身は現実感を失い、ますます狂気に陥っていく。
映画の内容もさることながら、ラバニーノのスコアは、彼がこのジャンルのために書いたベストの一つであることは間違いないが、1964年にエンニオ・モリコーネがすでにマカロニ・ウエスタンというジャンルのために作り上げた革新的な音世界というよりは、古典的なアメリカ西部劇の伝統的スタイルに回帰するものである。メイン・タイトルに導入される彼の推進力のある主要テーマは、非常にメロディアスでテンポの速い曲で、興奮と止められないエネルギーに満ちており、すぐにリスナーの注意を引きつける。この曲は、映画の中で様々な形で繰り返され、例えば孤独なハーモニカによって親密に表現されたり、エレクトリック・オルガンとギターによってより沈鬱でミュートされた雰囲気で演奏されたりする。この威厳のあるメインテーマのほかに、ラヴァニーノはいくつかのロマンティックなテーマを提供している： 一方、ロンとイーディス、チャーリーとベスの2組のカップルのラブシーンは、ラヴァニーノ特有の官能的な高音弦の使い方で輝きを放っています。このスコアのハイライトは、フルオーケストラとフレンチホルンの伴奏で演奏される豪華な牛追い音楽で、本物の壮大さと広い空間の感覚を放ちます。
ボーナスとして、1966年の低予算映画「ZORRO IL RIBELLE」のために特別に作曲されたオリジナル・サウンドトラックもCDの最後に収録されています。この映画は、ピエロ・ピエロッティが監督し、ハワード・ロス（ゾロ役）、ディナ・デ・サンティス、アルトゥーロ・ドミニチ、チャールズ・ブロメルが出演した、西部劇と冒険映画の両方の側面を持つ映画です。この映画では、ラヴァニーノが以前に作曲した冒険活劇音楽の中から重要なキューを再利用していたため、彼は12～13分の新しい音楽（主にいくつかのフラメンコダンスと2つの剣戟シーンの音楽）を作曲し、このCDに使用することができました。
この素晴らしいCDプロジェクトは、ラヴァニーノシリーズの15枚目のCDとなりますが、作曲家の3人の娘、ビアンカ、イウディカ、アレッサンドラ・ラバニーノの寛大な支援により実現したもので、彼らの個人アーカイブには、オリジナルのマスターテープのオープンリールテープのコピーが残っており、私たちはそれを使うことを許可されました。CD版には、16ページのブックレットとライナーノート、2つの映画のカラー写真が収録されており、400枚限定となっています。 --- レーベルより （機械翻訳 - 一部修正あり）
Alhambra Records proudly presents on this CD the world premiere release of Angelo Francesco Lavagnino’s complete original score for the 1965 Italian western GLI UOMINI DAL PASSO PESANTE (US title: THE TRAMPLERS) which had been co-directed by the Italian Mario Sequi and the American producer Albert Band. Experienced US character actor Joseph Cotten stars as a Southern Colonel (a role he should repeat one year later in Sergio Corbucci´s I CRUDELI) who refuses to give up the fight after the Civil War has ended whereas his son Lon with whom he gets into conflict is played by former muscleman star Gordon Scott. The supporting roles are filled by Franco Nero (just one year before his Django fame) and Jim Mitchum, the son of Robert Mitchum.
Although released in late 1965, the movie contains many ingredients which still link it to some of the more mature US westerns from the 1950s which had depicted a similar family feud. It also focuses more attention on the psychologies and motivations of the main characters than the standard Italian western fare of that period. On the other hand, the excessive violence of the action scenes is of course unmistakably that of the Italian western genre so much in vogue at that time.
At the beginning of the film Lon Cordeen who had fought for the Confederate Army returns home and becomes witness to the regime of terror his father leads by killing any Northerners who come into his way. A huge family feud erupts when Lon disregards his father´s orders to kill or at least run out of town the local settler Charlie Garvey, a suitor for one of Lon´s sisters, Bess. Together with his younger brother Hoby he helps Charlie to elope with Bess and embarks on a cattle drive venture to the North with them. In the end most of the family members will get killed whereas Temple himself loses all sense of reality and falls more and more into madness.
As well as the movie itself, Lavagnino´s score ? certainly one of his best he has written for this genre ? also harkens back more to the traditional style of classic US westerns than to the innovative sound world that Ennio Morricone had already created for the Italian western genre in 1964. His propulsive principal theme which gets introduced in the Main Title is a highly melodic, fast-paced tune full of rousing excitement and unstoppable energy which immediately grabs the listener´s attention. It will recur in various guises throughout the film and is equally capable of being intimately rendered for example by a lonely harmonica or in a more somber and muted vein played by electric organ and guitar. Besides this domineering main theme Lavagnino has also supplied a couple of additional romantic themes: A warm-hearted family theme exudes a nostalgic flair with fragile memories of a time long lost whereas the love scenes between the two couples Lon and Edith and Charlie and Bess shine with Lavagnino´s characteristic use of sensual high strings. One of the highlights of the score is the sumptuous cattle drive music which is set for full orchestra with appropriate French horn accompaniment and which radiates a sense of genuine epic grandeur and of wide-open spaces.
As a bonus we have added at the end of the CD all the original music which had been especially composed for the low-budget genre movie ZORRO IL RIBELLE in 1966. Partly western and partly adventure movie, the picture was directed by Piero Pierotti and starred Howard Ross (as Zorro), Dina De Santis, Arturo Dominici and Charles Burromel. As many important cues in the film had been recycled from earlier swashbuckler scores by Lavagnino, he just wrote about 12-13 minutes of new music ? mainly a few flamenco dances and music for two sword fight sequences - which we could use for this CD.
This wonderful CD project ? the 15th CD in our Lavagnino series ? has only been possible thanks to the generous support of the three daughters of the composer ? Bianca, Iudica and Alessandra Lavagnino -, who still had open reel tape copies of the original master tapes in their personal archive which we were allowed to use. Our CD edition which contains a 16-page booklet with extensive liner notes and numerous colour stills from the two movies is limited to 400 copies.
GLI UOMINI DAL PASSO PESANTE (1965)
1.The Stagecoach - Main Title
2.After the Lynching - Lon and Edith
3.Lon Comes Home
4.The Cordeen Family
5.Lon and Hoby - Temple's Plan
6.Riding Away - Lon and His Mother
7.Lon and Hoby Meet Charlie Garvey and Bess - Charlie Marries Bess
8.Surprise Visitors
9.Leaving Town - Pardners
10.Lon and Charlie Build a Wooden Cabin
11.Hired Killers
12.Lon Rides Back
13.Meeting Edith Again - On to the Family Ranch
14.The Cordeen Family Breaks Apart
15.Hoby's Disillusionment
16.Roundup
17.Cattle Drive
18.Plans for the Future - Family Feud
19.Edith Returns
20.Riding into Town - Edith Confronts Temple
21.Temple's Descent into Madness
22.Back Home
23.Finale
Bonus Tracks from "Gli Uomini Dal Passo Pesante"
24.Main Theme - Demo Track
25.Square Dance
26.Saloon Piano
ZORRO IL RIBELLE (1966)
27.Main Title*
28.Village Dance
29.Guitar Duo - Festive Dance
30.Zorro Intervenes
31.In the Tavern
32.Father Carmelo and the Rebels
33.Zorro Hides
34.Wedding Ceremony
35.The Rebels Gather*
*Damaged Track