Bluebeard

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and EMI General Music Publishing, presents a remastered reissue of BLUEBEARD (1972), in full stereo for the first time. It is one of the most bizarre-yet-beautiful Ennio Morricone scores composed during the busiest period of his career. The film is a weird co-production directed by Edward Dmytryck, produced by Alexander Saldkin, and starring Richard Burton, Rachel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon and Agostina Belli.

The plot of the film is loosely based on a French folk tale about a nobleman whose last wife becomes curious when he tells her that she can enter any room in his castle except one. In that room, he keeps the corpses of all his previous wives, whom he has murdered. Ennio Morricone divided his score between the melancholic, the macabre and the parodic. One senses his intention to delve deeper into the psychology of the characters and to imbue the images with irony, moving from black comedy to bourgeois horror drama.

1. Barbablù (Titoli) 4:04
2. Caccia 2:22
3. Preludio alla prima moglie 1:19
4. Una macabra scoperta 2:09
5. 1928 2:56
6. Interludio alla seconda moglie 2:22
7. Barbablù romantico 3:31
8. Postludio alla terza moglie 2:45
9. Dedicato alla quarta 2:39
10. Il violinista 2:51
11. La quinta è in coma 2:26
12. Barbablù al crepuscolo 2:25
13. Povera sesta 2:46
14. Brutta fanfara 1:31
15. Requiem per la settima 3:14
16. Barbablù 2:23
17. Preludio alla prima moglie (#2) 0:45
18. Una macabra scoperta (#2) 3:25
19. 1928 (#2) 2:50
20. Interludio alla seconda moglie (#2) 1:51
21. Barbablù romantico (#2) 4:14
22. Postludio alla terza moglie (#2) 2:31
23. La quinta è in coma (#2) 2:20
24. Barbablù al crepuscolo (#2) 2:34
25. Povera sesta (#2) 3:26
26. Barbablù romantico (#3) 4:11
27. Barbablù (Titoli – Versione Film) 2:58

Total Disc Time: 73:01