Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and EMI General Music Publishing, presents an expanded and remastered edition of Armando Trovajoli’s infectious score for the Ettore Scola film noir IL COMMISSARIO PEPE (1969), starring Ugo Tognazzi and Silvia Dionisio. The film is about Pepe (Tognazzi), a police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province who investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners. During his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist has shacked up with ten students, the prefect’s daughter prostitutes herself to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his own girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open, but his superior put obstacles in his way.
The collaboration between Armando Trovajoli and Ettore Scola has been one of the most celebrated in Italian cinema during their four decades together, producing classics such as L’ARCIDIAVOLO, BRUTTI SPORCHI E CATTIVI, DRAMMA DELLA GELOSIA, LA TERRAZZA, LA FAMIGLIA and PASSION D’AMORE, among others. For Scola, Trovajoli’s music was the voice of his films, the single element that really completed them. In IL COMMISSARIO PEPE, he contributed one of his most celebrated scores, with the famous song “We’ll Keep Trying,” performed by Lydia McDonald, as well as several urban and bittersweet themes to showcase the world of moral decay depicted in the film. The recording also featured other prestigious collaborators such as I Marc 4, Edda Dell’Orso, and Alessandro Alessandroni, making this score even more iconic.
A selection of 10 cues from IL COMMISSARIO PEPE was released on LP in Italy by RCA at the time of the film’s premiere. The same program was released on CD in the 1990s as part of a compilation dedicated to Ugo Tognazzi by Point Records. An extended 18-track version was released in Japan in 2006 in a limited edition. This is the first time the complete score has been released. Produced by Claudio Fuiano, restored and mastered by Chris Malone, the booklet includes a detailed essay by Miguel Angel Ordonez on the film, the score and the relationship between Trovajoli and Scola. Limited 350 copies.
、ウーゴ・トニャッツィとシルヴィア・ディオニシオ主演のエットーレ・スコラ監督によるノワール映画『IL COMMISSARIO PEPE』（1969年）のためにアルマンド・トロヴァヨーリが書き下ろしたスコアのリマスター完全盤がリリース！
トラックリストこの映画は、イタリアのヴェネチア地方にある小さな町の警視総監ペペ（トニャッツィ）が、2人の年金生活者が運営する売春組織を捜査する話である。捜査の過程で彼は、元ネイリストが10人の生徒と同棲していること、県知事の娘がヒモを維持するために売春していること、有名な医師が若い患者とセックスしていること、校長が生徒たちに目をつけていること、貴族の女性が別荘で乱交パーティーを開いていること、地元の修道院をレズビアンが経営していること、自分のガールフレンドがハードコア雑誌でポーズをとっていることも知る。彼はすべてを明らかにしようとするが、上司が邪魔をする。
アルマンド・トロヴァジョーリ監督とエットーレ・スコラ監督のコラボレーションは、『L'ARCIDIAVOLO』、『醜い奴、汚い奴、悪い奴』、『ジェラシー』、『LA TERRAZZA』、『ラ・ファミリア』、『パッション・ダモーレ』などの名作を生み出し、この40年間、イタリア映画界で最も称賛されてきた。スコラにとって、トロヴァヨーリの音楽は映画の声であり、映画を完成させる唯一の要素であった。『IL COMMISSARIO PEPE』では、リディア・マクドナルドが演奏した有名な曲「We'll Keep Trying」のほか、都会的でほろ苦いテーマがいくつもあり、映画の中で描かれる道徳崩壊の世界を表現している。このレコーディングには、I Marc 4、Edda Dell'Orso、Alessandro Alessandroniといった一流のコラボレーターも参加しており、このスコアをより象徴的なものにしている。
『IL COMMISSARIO PEPE』から10曲をセレクトしたLPは、映画初公開時にRCAからイタリアでリリースされた。同じプログラムは、1990年代にポイント・レコードからウーゴ・トニャッツィに捧げられたコンピレーションの一部としてCDでリリースされた。日本では2006年に18曲入りのエクステンデッド盤が限定発売された。全曲がリリースされるのは今回が初めて。クラウディオ・フィアーノがプロデュースし、クリス・マローンが修復とマスタリングを担当。ブックレットには、ミゲル・アンヘル・オルドニェスによる映画、スコア、トロヴァヨーリとスコラの関係についての詳細なエッセイが掲載。
限定350枚。
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and EMI General Music Publishing, presents an expanded and remastered edition of Armando Trovajoli’s infectious score for the Ettore Scola film noir IL COMMISSARIO PEPE (1969), starring Ugo Tognazzi and Silvia Dionisio. The film is about Pepe (Tognazzi), a police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province who investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners. During his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist has shacked up with ten students, the prefect’s daughter prostitutes herself to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his own girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open, but his superior put obstacles in his way.
The collaboration between Armando Trovajoli and Ettore Scola has been one of the most celebrated in Italian cinema during their four decades together, producing classics such as L’ARCIDIAVOLO, BRUTTI SPORCHI E CATTIVI, DRAMMA DELLA GELOSIA, LA TERRAZZA, LA FAMIGLIA and PASSION D’AMORE, among others. For Scola, Trovajoli’s music was the voice of his films, the single element that really completed them. In IL COMMISSARIO PEPE, he contributed one of his most celebrated scores, with the famous song “We’ll Keep Trying,” performed by Lydia McDonald, as well as several urban and bittersweet themes to showcase the world of moral decay depicted in the film. The recording also featured other prestigious collaborators such as I Marc 4, Edda Dell’Orso, and Alessandro Alessandroni, making this score even more iconic.
A selection of 10 cues from IL COMMISSARIO PEPE was released on LP in Italy by RCA at the time of the film’s premiere. The same program was released on CD in the 1990s as part of a compilation dedicated to Ugo Tognazzi by Point Records. An extended 18-track version was released in Japan in 2006 in a limited edition. This is the first time the complete score has been released. Produced by Claudio Fuiano, restored and mastered by Chris Malone, the booklet includes a detailed essay by Miguel Angel Ordonez on the film, the score and the relationship between Trovajoli and Scola.
Limited 350 copies.
The Original Album
1. Theme 3:37
2. Beat for a nun 2:06
3. A lonely man 3:34
4. We’ll keep trying (Vocal: Lydia McDonald) 2:57
5. Masquerade 3:39
6. Love is a woman 2:32
7. Surrender 2:45
8. Waltz theme 1:48
9. Love theme 2:24
10. Final 2:59
Film Versions
11. Theme (# 2) 3:44
12. We’ll keep trying (Instrumental) 3:36
13. Theme (# 3) 1:16
14. Il commissario Pepe (Jazz lounge) 3:57
15. Theme (# 4) 1:26
16. Il commissario Pepe (Shake) 1:17
17. Surrender (# 2) 2:42
18. Theme (# 5) 2:40
19. Beat for a nun (#2) 1:01
20. Walz theme (#2 – fast) 0:39
21. Theme (# 6) 1:47
22. Surrender (#3) 1:46
23. Theme (#7 - organ) 1:08
24. Final (#2 - alternate) 2:13
Total Disc Time: 58:25