Morricone: Cinema Suites for Violin and Orchestra Marco Serino, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento & Andrea Morricone

• Ennio Morricone (1928 - 2020): Sergio Leone Suite:
• 1 Morricone: Sergio Leone Suite: I. Deborah’s Theme from Once Upon a Time in America 03:08
• 2 Morricone: Sergio Leone Suite: II. Cockeye’s Song from Once Upon a Time in America 02:02
• 3 Morricone: Sergio Leone Suite: III. Main Theme from Once Upon a Time in America 01:39
• 4 Morricone: Sergio Leone Suite: IV. Main Theme from Once Upon a Time in the West 02:58
• 5 Morricone: Sergio Leone Suite: V. The Ecstasy of Gold from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 03:46
• Canone inverso:
• 6 Morricone: Canone inverso: I. Canone inverso I e II 06:47
• 7 Morricone: Canone inverso: II. March 03:27
• 8 Morricone: Canone inverso: III. Finale interrotto 04:31
• Giuseppe Tornatore Suite:
• 9 Morricone: Giuseppe Tornatore Suite: I. Playing Love from The Legend of 1900 01:59
• 10 Morricone: Giuseppe Tornatore Suite: II. Nostalgia from Cinema Paradiso 02:08
• 11 Morricone: Giuseppe Tornatore Suite: III. Looking for You (Love Theme) from Cinema Paradiso 01:41
• 12 Morricone: Giuseppe Tornatore Suite: IV. Main Theme from Malena 03:56
• 13 Morricone: Giuseppe Tornatore Suite: V. Main Theme from A Pure Formality (Remembering) 03:01
• The Mission:
• 14 Morricone: The Mission: I. Gabriel’s Oboe 02:10
• 15 Morricone: The Mission: II. The Falls 03:14
• Brian De Palma Suite:
• 16 Morricone: Brian De Palma Suite: I. Main Theme from Casualties of War 03:31
• 17 Morricone: Brian De Palma Suite: II. Death Theme from The Untouchables 03:25
• Moses and Marco Polo Suite:
• 18 Morricone: Moses and Marco Polo Suite: I. Journey from Moses 02:38
• 19 Morricone: Moses and Marco Polo Suite: II. Theme from Moses 01:49
• 20 Morricone: Moses and Marco Polo Suite: III. Main Theme from Marco Polo 03:37
• Per le antiche scale (from the Bolognini Movie):
• 21 Morricone: Per le antiche scale (from the Bolognini Movie) 02:22
• Total Runtime 01:03:49

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For twenty years Marco Serino was Ennio Morricone’s violinist, the soloist on his film soundtracks and on world tours where they were reworked for the concert hall. In January 2020, after what proved to be his last public concert, at the Italian Senate in Rome, Morricone finished the transcription of this magnificent and unpublished collection, which recasts the themes of his most famous scores in suites transcribed for violin and orchestra. The work was carried out in close collaboration with Marco Serino and dedicated to him as a fruit of the artistic partnership between the two men. The collection alternates between pieces already performed in concert and others that are heard in this version for the first time. A year and a half after the composer’s death, this extraordinary document, a testimony to friendship and professional esteem, now becomes a recording project with the collaboration of Andrea Morricone, the composer’s son, who conducts the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento.

Marco Serino, violin
Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento
Andrea Morricone, conductor

Marco Serino
completed his musical studies at the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, obtaining diplomas in violin and chamber music with full marks and honors.

Afterwards he studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna with Gunter Pichler; the ProQuartet in Paris with the Amadeus, Melos, Berg, and La Salle Quartets; the Royal College of London and the Geneva Conservatory with Corrado Romano, where he was awarded the ‘Premier Prix de virtuosité’.

In 1990, he founded the Bernini Quartet and has been a member of the famous ensemble, ‘I Musici’; as a soloist and chamber musician he collaborates with some of the most famous performers, including, just to name a few, Giuliano Carmignola, Christoph Coin, Wladimir Mendelssohn, Mario Brunello, Giovanni Sollima, Francesco Cera, Bruno Canino, Gérard Caussé, Hector Passarella, and Alessandro Carbonare.

He performs as a soloist and chamber musician in the most prestigious halls around the world, including the Berlin and Köln Philharmonic, Herkulessaal and Prinzregententheater in Munich, Musikverein in Vienna, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Theater Mariinsky of St. Petersburg, Suntory Hall of Tokyo, Arts Performance Center of Seoul, National Theater of Beijing, Shanghai Theater, Mozarteum Salzburg, Rome Auditorium S. Cecilia, Milano Società del Quartetto, Venice Biennale, etc.

He was devoted the works of Important composers: worth remembering are the collaborations with Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, Matteo D’Amico, Alessandro Sbordoni, Gideon Lewinshon, Steve Reich, Ada Gentile, and Pascal Dusapin.

As a soloist or second violin he has collaborated with important orchestras, including the National Academy of S. Cecilia; the Kammerorchester, Zürich; Haydn, Bolzano; La Stravaganza, Bucharest; the Abruzzese Symphony Orchestra; the Bellini Theater, Catania; Rome Sinfonietta; the ICO Orchestra, Lecce; the Regional Orchestra of Rome and Lazio; and others.

He has recorded for some prestigious record companies, including Decca, Amadeus, Foné, Tactus reviewed and awarded by the most important specialized magazines, such as Strad, Repertoire, Classica, and Amadeus. In 1999, Ennio Morricone – of whom, since 2000 he has been the solo violin of all soundtracks – awarded him the prestigious “Michelangelo Prize”, previously awarded to Goffredo Petrassi, Bruno Cagli, Morricone himself, Renzo Piano, Alberto Sordi, and others, for having particularly distinguished himself in the dissemination of human and cultural values.

He is a tenured violin teacher at the Trento Conservatory and has held masterclasses in the United States at many universities in North America; at the Accademia für alte Musik in Brunico; at many Italian conservatories; at the Arts Academy; and at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana.

He also deals with musicological research, and recently his reconstructions of unpublished concertos for violin by J.S. Bach have been recorded for Deutsche Grammophon by Concerto Köln and Giuliano Carmignola. He plays a violin by Niccolò Amati, Cremona, 1661.

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