Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning composer of more than 500 film scores, has died at the age of 91. The Italian musician leaves behind an extraordinary body of work that includes collaborations with ...

Given the number of transcriptions of this piece of music that exist, it could very well have been called Gabriel’s Cello, Gabriel’s Organ or even Gabriel’s arrangement for four-piece boy band. The ...

On the face of it, The Mission would seem like a surprising choice for Australia’s favourite piece of film music in 2013. A great soundtrack, undoubtedly. A film in its twilight, possibly. But there’s ...

It is the 18th century, somewhere in the rainforest between Northeastern Argentina and Eastern Paraguay. A solitary Jesuit missionary by the name of Father Gabriel (Jeremy Irons), ant-like against the ...

There’s no mistaking an Ennio Morricone score. Maybe one of the only film composers whose style was so distinctive that you recognised it as soon as you heard the first few notes, Morricone ...

From ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ to ‘The Mission’, these are some of Morricone’s most iconic works. It starts with a coyote call-like oscillation of notes, played on the soprano recorder, ...

Simon Foster looks at some of the choice cuts from the career of celebrated composer Ennio Morricone ahead of his appearance at the Adelaide Festival. Every patron who has ever sat in a darkened ...

Ennio Morricone is as about close as a film composer can come to being a household name — and, at age 88, he's still going strong. This year, he was signed to a new record label and has now released a ...