The score for a dance with death ...

Sergio Leone's masterful epic "C'era Una Volta Il West" - so much the more lyrical title in the original ("Game me the song of death", however, is extremely unhappy 'translated', it betrays the final) - is not only an optical Noise: The pictures, the colors, the violence. Not inconsiderable zum Gesamtkunstwerk of the film carries the almost epic score by Ennio Morricone at: Of course, the legendary Mundarmonika melody will be a household name.
But the subtleties lie elsewhere. The meticulous and detail-obsessed work of Regiesseurs went namely so far as to dedicate every character of the film its own musical motif to which he appears in the film. Morricone, who contributed the music and other Leone films, this task could implement more than worthy. And amazingly, this methodology also works at the mere hearing of the soundtrack: Nearly one means, Harmonica would be in the room.
Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson - big names in a big movie. Leone himself defined the rhythm of his film as "Dance with Death", and the score by Morricone is a hauntingly touching way there.
Shame only as far as the loveless presentation and quality of the CD, even in comparison to the trivalent DVD release of Paramount. A relief artwork in a Digipak that CD in a contemporary 24bit Remaster: That would be perfect.