Per le antiche scale

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing, presents a remastered reissue of one of Ennio Morricone’s most celebrated collaborations with Mauro Bolognini (ARABELLA, L’ASSOLUTO NATURALE, METELLO), the 1975 drama PER LE ANTICHE SCALE, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Barbara Bouchet, Lucia Bosé, Marthe Keller and Françoise Fabian.

The film is set in fascist Italy in the 1930s and takes place in a Tuscan mental hospital. There, Dr. Bonaccorsi (Mastroianni), a charismatic, progressive and contradictory psychiatrist,  works with mentally ill patients while simultaneously maintaining romantic relationships with three women: a nurse, a colleague’s wife and the hospital secretary. The decadent and labyrinthine atmosphere of the asylum acts as a metaphor for the state of Italian society at the time. Morricone’s score combines melancholic passages with atonal and dissonant moments, reflecting the clash between the lyricism of the human soul—the patients, their dreams, their poetic delusions—and the oppressiveness of the system—the treatments, the medical language, the hierarchy in the asylum.

1. Per le antiche scale (Preludio) 3:25
2. Passato remoto 7:02
3. I Interludio 2:18
4. Sospiri e Rantoli 6:56
5. II Interludio 2:59
6. Rimani 5:36
7. Interludio 2:59
8. Seconda invasione 2:31
9. Postludio 3:19
10. Follia e morte 7:56
11. Rimanenze 6:07
12. Per le antiche scale (#2) 3:00
13. Carnevale 6:23
14. Sospiri e Rantoli (#2) 2:39
15. Postludio (#2) 1:26
16. Follia e morte (#2) 6:06
17. Per le antiche scale (#3) 2:57

Total Disc Time: 79:19