Inferno: The Complete Motion Picture Soundtrack Recording [Import, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack, Extra tracks]

Keith Emerson (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Keith Emerson
• Audio CD (December 19, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack, Extra tracks
• Label: Cinevox Records
• ASIN: B000009FP4
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #538,673 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Inferno(Main Titles Theme)

2. Rose's Descent Into The Cellar

3. Taxi Ride(Rome)

4. The Library

5. Sarah In The Library Vaults

6. Bookbinder's Delight

7. Rose Leaves The Apartment

8. Rose Gets In

9. Elisa's Story

10. A Cat Attic Attack

11. Kazanian's Tarantella

12. Mark's Discovery

13. Mater Tenebrarum

14. Inferno Finale

15. "Cigarettes, Ices, Etc

16. Inferno(Outtakes Suite)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a classic returns!, November 6, 1998

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Ulfster - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inferno: The Complete Motion Picture Soundtrack Recording (Audio CD)

When Dario Argento saw Emerson, Lake & Palmer live on stage, he was particularly impressed by Keith Emerson's performance and asked him to write the soundtrack for his new opus, "Inferno". The rest is musical history.

After many years without a CD release of this masterpiece of modern film music writing, the italian label Cinevox re-released it, and, as is policy at Cinevox's, added previously unreleased material, this time in form of a 10+ min "Outtakes Suite" - which finally includes some fine tunes previously dearly missed on the album.

For those who know the film: The impact of the soundtrack is not in the least bit inhibited by the lack of visual cues, sometimes even heightened, e.g. in Track #12, "Mark's discovery", which is an extremely beautifully structured/layered track that almost gets lost in the films vivid imagery. Afficionados of EL&P will be pleased to find "Taxi Ride (Rome)" (#3), which is a version of G. Verdi's "Va pensiero" (Nabucco) , absolutely on par with their other Classical Re-inventions. (Interestingly, the fact that it is a "cover version" isn't mentioned anywhere in the CD's booklet.) The sound quality of the recording is extremely good, so that the whole range of the orchestra Keith Emerson worked with can be wonderfully explored.

What more is to say? This is a must. Period.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for Keith fans, April 7, 2000

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"dmax801" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inferno: The Complete Motion Picture Soundtrack Recording (Audio CD)

I had just bought this and had it on my turntable on a sunny spring day in Baton Rouge, LA when I heard a knock at my door. When I opened it, it was the neighbor. "Could you turn that down? It's really scary."

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars DON'T turn off those LIGHTS!!!, November 1, 2000

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Henry R. Kujawa ("The Forbidden Zone" (Camden, NJ)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inferno: The Complete Motion Picture Soundtrack Recording (Audio CD)

Of the various Keith Emerson soundtracks I've managed to track down (not an easy task) this remains one of my favorites. Moody, spooky, disturbing, THRILLING. You don't wanna be depressed when you put this on-- it MIGHT just push you over the EDGE!! The finale ("Cigarettes etc.") is certain to remind one of Keith's ELP work, and worth having even if soundtracks aren't your thing. I rented the film AFTER hearing this-- I'm NOT sure the movie lives up to the soundtrack that accompanies it! (Though it's hard to tell with Italian imports WHAT may have been lost in the "translation"-- OR the editing room!!) I paid between $30-35 for a Japanese import of this-- but I would have regretted not having it all these years. (BONUS track? Damn!!) Only Keith's masterpiece, NIGHTHAWKS, surpasses this to my ears.