Even for someone with such a hit rate as Ennio Morricone - Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon A Time In America, The Untouchables, et al - Gabriel’s Oboe is a real corker.
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Released: 1986
Director: Roland Joffe
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons
The Film: The Oscar winning 1986 film tells the story of a Spanish Jesuit priest who goes into the South American jungle to build a mission and convert a community of Guarani indians whilst fighting off the dastardly Portuguese colonials, who are trying to enslave the community.
The Composer: Ennio Morricone - this Italian born composer has written scores of more than 500 films and TV series. Although only 30 of these are for Western films, it is for this work which he is best known. His haunting soundtrack for The Mission is regarded as one of his best - and includes the beautiful and lyrical Gabriel's Oboe.
Director: Roland Joffe
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons
The Film: The Oscar winning 1986 film tells the story of a Spanish Jesuit priest who goes into the South American jungle to build a mission and convert a community of Guarani indians whilst fighting off the dastardly Portuguese colonials, who are trying to enslave the community.
The Composer: Ennio Morricone - this Italian born composer has written scores of more than 500 films and TV series. Although only 30 of these are for Western films, it is for this work which he is best known. His haunting soundtrack for The Mission is regarded as one of his best - and includes the beautiful and lyrical Gabriel's Oboe.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2003 SACD release of The Mission (Original Soundtrack From The Film) on Discogs.
At the age of eighty-seven, Ennio Morricone is one of the great contemporary composers. With over four hundred movie scores to his name, in 2007 he received the Academy Honorary Award “for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music.” Besides six Oscar nominations, in 2016 he received the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work for Quentin Tarantino’s film The Hateful Eight. I met him at his house in Rome to talk about his relationship with the Society of Jesus. Ennio Morricone is bound to the Jesuits by a thin thread that unravels from the soundtrack for the 1986 movie The Mission to the more recent Missa Papae Francisci, premiered in 2015.
The Mission is a 1986 movie about the experience of Jesuit missions in Paraguay. Written by Robert Bolt and directed by Roland Joffé, the movie won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Cinematography; the film score ranks first on the “Classic 100 Music in the Movies” and was certified “gold” by the Recording Industry Association of America. The Missa Papae Francisci was composed in 2014 to celebrate the bicentenary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus, and was performed for the first time in the Church of the Gesù in Rome on June 10, 2015.