Ennio Morricone Discography - Classic (absolute) Music

Classic (absolute) Music

Ennio Morricone's classical compositions include over 15 piano concertos, 30 symphonic pieces, choral music and one opera. His first classical pieces date back to the late-forties.

• Il Mattino (for voice and piano) 1946
• Imitazione (for voice and piano) 1947
• Iintimità (for voice and piano) 1947
• Barcarola funebre (for piano) 1952
• Preludio a una Novella senza titolo (for piano) 1952
• Distacco I (for voice and piano) 1953
• Distacco II (for voice and piano) 1953
• Verrà la morte (for contralto and piano) 1953
• Oboe sommerso (for baritone and five instruments) 1953
• Musica (for piano and string orchestra) 1954
• Sonata (for brass ensemble, piano and timpani) 1954
• Variations on a theme by Frescobaldi (for piano) 1955
• Cantata (for orchestra and mixed chorus singing a text by Cesare Pavese) 1955
• Sestetto (for flute, oboe, bassoon, violin, viola and cello) 1955
• Twelve Variations (for oboe d'amore, cello and piano) 1956
• Invenzione, canone e ricercare (for piano) 1956
• Concerto (for orchestra) 1957
• Distanze (for violin, cello and piano) 1958
• Requiem per un destino (for mixed chorus and orchestra) 1966
• Suoni per Dino (a piece for viola virtuoso Dino Asciolla using 2 magnetic tapes) 1969
• Proibito (for 8 trumpets) 1972
• Gestazione (for female voice and instruments plus pre-recorded electronic sounds and an ad lib string orchestra) 1980
• Totem secondo (for 5 bassoons and 2 contrabassoons) 1981
• Second Concerto (for flute, cello and orchestra) 1984–85
• Four Studies (for piano) 1984–89
• Frammenti di Eros (Cantata for soprano, piano and orchestra to a text by Sergio Miceli) 1985
• Cantata per L'Europa (for soprano, two vocal recitals, mixed chorus and orchestra) 1988
• Mordenti (for harpsichord) 1988
• Epos (for orchestra) 1989
• Study (for double-bass) 1989
• Reflessi (for cello) 1989–90
• Frammenti di giochi (for violin and harp) 1990
• Third Concerto (for guitar, marimba and string orchestra) 1990–91
• UT (for trumpet, timpani, bass drum and string orchestra) 1991
• Una via crucis ('Stations of The Cross' in various vocal and instrumental combinations and in collaboration with Michele Dall'Ongaro and Egisto Macchi) 1991–93
• Fourth Concerto (for organ, two trumpets, two trombones and orchestra) 1993
• Vidi aquam (for soprano and small orchestra) 1993
• Elegia per Egisto (a piece for violin dedicated to his fellow-Nuova Consonanza member Egisto Macchi) 1993
• Il silenzio, il gioco, la memoria (for a chorus of children's voices singing a text by Sergio Miceli) 1994
• Partenope (an opera with a libretto by Guido Barbieri and Sandro Cappelletto) 1996
• Passaggio secondo (for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, 20 strings and a vocal recital of a text by Allen Ginsberg) 1996
• Scherzo (for violin and piano) 1996; Ombra di lontana presenza (for viola, string orchestra and magnetic tape) 1997
• Nocturne and Passacaglia (for flute, oboe, clarinet, piano and strings) 1998
• Amen (for 6 choruses of mixed voices) 1998
• Pietre (for double chorus, percussion and cello) 1999
• For the Children Killed by the Mafia (for soprano, baritone, 6 instruments and two voices reciting a text by Luciano Violente) 1999
• Abenddämmerung (for violin, cello, piano and soprano or mezzo-soprano singing a text by Heinrich Heine) 2000
• If This Be a Man (for soprano, violin, strings and vocal recital of a text by Primo Levi) 2001
• Voci dal silenzio (for vocal recital, recorded voice, chorus and orchestra) 2002
• Finale (for two organs) 2002
• Riverberi (for flute, cello and piano) 2004