Thanks to Bandcamp user Raffaele Melina (we have a whopping 154 items in common) for buying this and therefore bringing it to my attention. I really don't own much music like this - I have a few classical records that I listen to now and then. I really enjoy my Gershwin "Rhapsody in Blue" LP and Joe Jackson's "Will Power", but let's face it, I'm not listening to classical music often.
And, to be honest, this isn't necessarily classical music. "Salò, or The 120 Days Of Sodom" is the soundtrack to the 1975 "political art horror film directed and co-written by Pier Paolo Pasolini". Pasolini was murdered three weeks before it's release. The film is loosely based on "120 Days of Sodom" by the Marquis de Sade. The film has been banned, praised, adored, and hated.
I've never seen the film, but it's hard to imagine that it was named the 65th-scariest film ever made by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2006 based on this amazing soundtrack. Really, give it a listen. It puts me in the same mood as Molly Drake's enchanting piano compositions sans vocals. Cold Spring, a British label based in Northamptonshire, just released this late last month.
It looks like Ennio Morricone did some of the composition himself, but he used the works of Bach, Chopin, Puccini and more when making this wonderful soundtrack.