I’ve put together a new and improved version of this! In hindsight my original release was a mess, so I started from scratch. I’ve expanded it into a 2 disc version, with the cues being unedited where available, and presenting about 40 minutes of bonus content. Until the legal shenanigans that keep the score from being released are sorted out, this as definitive a collection as it’s going to get.
Sources:
-“Caligula: The Music” LP (PR 101-CS).
-“Contrasti” LP (MPS 3002).
-“Mythos” LP (MPS 3005).
-“Tempo Sospeso” LP (MPS 3007).
-“Images Symphoniques” LP (DW/LP 3178).
-Suplemental material from the Imperial Edition DVD/Blu-Ray.
-5.1 channel rips from said release.
Disc 1 (59:44):
01 Prologue (Oblio) (1:21)
02 Wood Sequence (Spartacus, Romeo & Juliet) (4:14)
03 Caligula Departs (Spartacus) (0:34)*
04 Capri (1:14)*
05 Caligula’s Dance (Marziale) (1:18)
06 Too Much Wine (1:49)
07 Contorni (1:32)
08 Ombre E Riflessi (2:16)
09 Les Damnes (5:31)
10 La Sfida Romantica (1:12)
11 La Salda Rocca (3:07)
12 Mirror Dance (Spartacus) (0:24)*
13 Funeral (1:08)*
14 Drusilla’s Bedroom (Spartacus) (0:56)
15 Macro Arrested (Spartacus) (2:07)
16 Caligula & Ennia (Anfitrione) (1:48)
17 Isis Pool (Oblio) (4:17)
18 Livia, Proculus Wedding (Movimento) (3:31)
19 Livia, Proculus Wedding (bis) (0:51)
20 Aulos (2:38)
21 Inno Sacro (3:40)
22 Banquet (1:56)
23 Caesonia’s Dance (1:25)
24 The Fever (Spartacus) (3:52)
25 Birth of Julia (1:25)
26 Drusilla’s Death (Spartacus) (5:38)
Disc 2 (71:24):
01 Suburra (5:51)
02 Suburra (bis) (0:19)
03 Imperial Bordello (Reazione) (8:40)*
04 Orgy on Ship, Part I (Cinderella) (1:48)
05 Spartan War (1:25)
06 Fanfare (0:10)*
07 Celebration (1:27)*
08 Conspirators (0:26)*
09 Empty Senate (Spartacus) (0:52)
10 Play Stadium (Equiziana) (2:44)
11 Caligula’ Death (Romeo & Juliet) (3:25)
12 Credits (Spartacus) (1:26)
13 Orgy on Ship, Part II (Orgia, Unused) (3:13)
14 Movimento (Tempo Sospeso) (2:19)
15 Primitivo (Tempo Sospeso) (3:09)
16 Reazione (Tempo Sospeso) (1:48)
17 We Are One, performed by Lydia (3:01)
18 We ARe One (Dance Version), peformed by Lydia (4:18)
19 Wood Sequence (3:37)
20 Imperial Bordello (2:45)
21 Unknown (1:43)
22 Unknown (0:55)
23 Unknown (0:44)
24 Unknown (0:43)
25 Unknown (0:38)
26 Unknown (0:29)
27 Unknown (1:23)
28 Unknown (2:03)
29 Unknown (4:14)
30 Unknown (5:49)
Notes:
-The tracks ripped from the 5.1 channel (marked with *) contain SFX and some reverb’d dialogue. The editing is that of the film, which might not match the way they were composed. I’ve decide not to further tamper with them.
-Track titles for stock music have been left “as is”, to differentiate them from the recordings that are exclusive to the film.
-Disc 2 tracks 14, 15 and 16 are from Nicolai’s “Tempo Sospeso”, and were the basis for some of Caligula’s themes.
-Disc 2 tracks 19 to 28 are Franco Mannino’s rejected cues. “Wood Sequence” is ripped straight from the film’s alternate cut, hence why it has dialogue at the beginning and end. The remainder of those cues are found from the DVD/BD’s extras. Most of them are unidentified, and a few of them appear in truncated form.
Original post:
Hi there!
I’ve been working on this for quite a while. While the Imperial Edition DVD was slated to include an additional disc with the film’s music, this was eventually nixed. Fortunely many of the unreleased cues were used in the behind the scenes reels, so assembling them cues in film order wasn’t that much of a problem. This doesn’t include the whole score, so I had to rip a number of the cues from the film’s 5.1 track, with varying degrees of success. Pierre Arvay’s “Les Damnes” was taken from the DeWolfe LP “Images Symphoniques”.
The whole thing runs about 84 minutes, so if you wish to burn this into a CD, you can delete tracks 18, 19, 21, 24 or 37, since they’re simply edits of previously heard cues. This release I’ve put together corresponds to the unrated theatrical version, the Italian cut “Io Caligola” has a few differently scored scenes, and of course there’s plenty of unused material, as well as the infamous “We are One” song that was used to promote the film; but all that I feel is material for a different release.
Enjoy this weird Frankenstein of a score; with Bruno Nicolai’s original compositions, and the highly innapropiate ballet pieces that were used to make the film “dramatic”.