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Frantic (1988)

Music by Ennio Morricone




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Line: Silver Age
CD Release: December 2011
Catalog #: Vol. 14, No. 17
# of Discs: 1


Harrison Ford starred in Roman Polanki’s suspense-thriller Frantic as an American doctor forced to search Paris for his wife (Betty Buckley), who vanishes shortly after their arrival at a conference. Jet-lagged and unable to speak French, he encounters skepticism from the local bureaucracy but eventually picks up her trail—plunging into a seedy nightlife of drugs, murder and international espionage, his only ally a stubborn party-girl (Emmanuelle Seigner).

Ennio Morricone provided the moody yet melodic score, his first and only collaboration with Polanski. The main theme, a melancholy piece of Continental romance, suggests the locale as well as the doctor’s deep affection for his wife. Overall, the score functions as a lament—both for the protagonist’s anguish and for the dead-end life of the girl who assists him.

Elektra Records issued a Frantic soundtrack album on LP and CD in 1988, now long out of print. Much of the music contained on the album does not appear in the picture at all, with other selections significantly altered. Yet the album remains a compelling portrait of Morricone’s work on the film, the longer selections providing a more complete presentation of the themes than the score as heard in the picture.

FSM’s release of Ennio Morricone’s Frantic score opens with a newly remastered presentation of the contents of the Elektra album, followed by the premiere release of Morricone’s complete score as it appears in the film (except for the film version of one cue and an alternate take of another), mastered from three- and four-track 35mm dubbing units (the only available sources) edited to reflect Polanski’s use of the score in the finished film. The accompanying 16-page booklet, designed by FSM art director Joe Sikoryak, features authoritative liner notes by Lukas Kendall.






Ennio Morricone Scores on FSM

Days of Heaven
The Five Man Army
Frantic
Guns for San Sebastian
MGM Soundtrack Treasury
Navajo Joe
White Dog


About the Composer

Italian composer Ennio Morricone (b. 1928) is one of the most legendary and prolific composers in the history of cinema, from his "spaghetti" westerns to heralded dramatic scores (The Mission, Once Upon a Time in America—and over 400 others). From his pop inventions of the 1960s and '70s to his timeless, elegiac and poetic symphonic works, he is a towering figure not only in movie music, but pop culture and contemporary music—and highly influential in several fields. IMDB

Yeah........

That's amazing...... and also CARTONI ANIMATI!!!

FRANTIC was my one of my favorite scores since childhood...

Music recorded at Forum Studio, Rome.
Orchestra: Unione Musicisti di Roma
Electric Bass: Nanni Civitenga
Flugelhorn: Gianni Santucci

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Previous Release:
Frantic - Elektra 960782-2 - USA - 1988
10 Tracks
Total Disc Time: 40:26

"The music on this CD was originally recorded on analog equipment. We have attempted to preserve, as closely as possible, the sound of the original recording. Because of its high resolution however, the CD can reveal limitations of the source tape."

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New Release:
Frantic - FSM Vol. 14 No. 17 - USA - December 2011
22 Tracks
Total Disc Time: 70:05

"FSM’s release of Ennio Morricone’s Frantic score opens with a newly remastered presentation of the contents of the Elektra album, followed by the premiere release of Morricone’s complete score as it appears in the film, mastered from three- and four-track 35mm dubbing units (the only available sources) edited to reflect Polanski’s use of the score in the finished film. The accompanying 16-page booklet, designed by FSM art director Joe Sikoryak, features authoritative liner notes by Lukas Kendall."

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/cds/det ... 1/Frantic/

thanks for the extra info Bob - That bass of Nanni Civitenga is what I remember from this score. No less a soloist almost than D'Amario, Alessandroni, De Gemini, and all Ennio's other famous names.

You're welcome, KP.
What's with the question mark in the title? You couldn't believe your eyes?

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Sorry! You've already edited it.

The question mark was because I was reading it on FSM and no mention of it on the Ennio forum made me think it was old news and there was already a thread on it!! I've done that before!!!

Great news.......wonderful score !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrISSYhJ ... re=related

Ciao,
Louis.

Does anybody own the new release? How is the sound quality?
Great to have the end titles on cd at last. I seldom listen to the Elektra release because I always get so annoyed that the end titles track is not on the cd.

Unfortunately Frantic is Film Score Monthly´s last Morricone release. I was really hoping for Orca.

Mathias,
why do you know that it is their last Morricone release ??

There was a thread on Film score monthly´s board where someone mentioned that Lukas Kendall(fsm) had wrote (somewhere) that of the last few releases on the fsm label there wouldn´t be any Williams, Goldsmith or Morricone releases.

Let´s hope that some other label like La La land records will release some Morricone ( Orca, Bloodline).