Ennio Morricone: Gabriel's Oboe (The Mission)

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Ennio Morricone’s main theme for the soundtrack to the 1986 motion picture, The Mission, starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons. Representing the humanity, spirituality and emotion of the story, the sublime Gabriel's Oboe is the most famous part of the haunting score. This breathtaking piece has been set here in an arrangement for Oboe and Piano, and also for solo piano.

It is said that Morricone actually created the theme by synchronising his writing with Jeremy Irons pretend movements camera!