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Over the past 4 months, there's been an unexpected but welcome surge of Mario Nascimbene's music on disc.
From November of 2015, with the release of 1960's LA GARÇONNIÈRE on Kronos and 1965's LE SOLDATESSE on Beat/Digitmovies, through February '16 announcements on upcoming Nascimbene music for late-'50s cinematic violence via Quartet (ESTATE VIOLENTA '59) and Kronos (L'ULTIMA VIOLENZA '57), we appear to be in the midst of a Nascimbene re-appraisal/re-evaluation.
Interestingly, the focus is on Nascimbene's non-English film scores which have been obscured for decades (since the days of LPs) by his works for Hollywood & Great Britain.
Compliments extended to these record labels for making such items available on disc.
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Has Nascimbene worked on any giallo or horror films?
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Has Nascimbene worked on any giallo or horror films?
Nothing that I'm aware of, but Nascimbene did provide music for an Egyptian production of The Mummy in 1969 (but it's apparently not a horror movie).
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Is there a definitive edition of ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.?
I expect, RoryR, that you are already acquainted with the Intermezzo LP and/or the Legend CD which contain 7 tracks from this film?
Beyond these, I don't think any more music is available (unless the master tapes do exist but cost too much money to restore & re-master).
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And Morricone started his film music career as an orchestrator/arranger for Nascimbene. I bet Maestro Nascimbene is looking from his shoulders over Morricone's recent Oscar win.
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- LA FRECCIA D'ORO (L'ARCIERE DELLE MILLE E UNA NOTTE)
- LA LOTTA DELL'UOMO PER LA SOPRAVVIVENZA
As if on cue within this 'mini-revival' (as I call it), Digitmovies announces a pairing on one disc of these 2 titles cited above.
http://www.digitsoundtracks.com/site/en/products/DGST011/
The 1962 fantasy film is in mono, and The Fight for Survival (what survives from the '70/'71 LA LOTTA DELL'UOMO PER LA SOPRAVVIVENZA) is in stereo.
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Mar 26, 2016 - 10:29 AM
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RoryR
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Is there a definitive edition of ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.?
I expect, RoryR, that you are already acquainted with the Intermezzo LP and/or the Legend CD which contain 7 tracks from this film?
Beyond these, I don't think any more music is available (unless the master tapes do exist but cost too much money to restore & re-master).
Don't forget though that Nic Raine did a phenomenal 8-minute suite from this film for one of his Silva compilations.
It's a short but absolutely fantastic score. No one will ever convince me it wasn't a big point of inspiration for Poledouris' CONAN THE BARBARIAN.
No, I'm not acquanted with the Intermezzo LP, but I have owned a copy of the Legend CD for some years, which also includes eight tracks each from WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH and CREATURES THE WORLD FORGOT. However, I read it knocked as a travesty. While I'm not bothered by it, it seems to my ears that the tracks from ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. are rechanneled stereo from a mono source. That may be the case with the others, too? I don't know, I'm just wondering if anything better has ever been released that I am unaware of. I guess not. The movie itself will be out on Blu-ray in the UK this June, but who knows what's in a vault anywhere regarding the score tracks?
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While I'm not bothered by it, it seems to my ears that the tracks from ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. are rechanneled stereo from a mono source. That may be the case with the others, too?
That re-channeled sound might also be attributed to Nascimbene's mixerama equipment. This would be my first guess regarding the sound quality.
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Mar 30, 2016 - 5:07 PM
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petruccio
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I think it's great news Nascimbene's new editions. I have a doubt Stefan Schlegel. I've heard several issues CAM CML 21 & 25 ( tracks: Alieanazione , Technology Senza Anima, Acque Senza Vita and Rito Pagano ) and except the first , I have not been able to identify them in the film Socrate. Do you know if those items belong really to Socrate or another soundtrack ?. It's very similar music together, very difficult to hear, full of effects and see very difficult ever to be published even if there is material available. All his scores for TV films Rossellini have a very similar structure with incidental music. This is the case of Gli Atti degli Apostoli (published in CAM), Il Messia , Cartesius , Agostino d' Ippona , Blaise Pascal , Anno Uno and L' Età di Cosimo di Medici . Is there material available to publish any of these scores ?I think it's great news Nascimbene new editions. I have a doubt Stefan Schlegel. I've heard several issues CML CAM 21 & 25 ( tracks: Alieanazione , Technology Senza Anima, Acque Senza Vita and Rito Pagano ) and except the first , I have not been able to identify them in the film Socrate . Do you know if those items belong really to Socrate or another soundtrack ?. It is very similar music together , very difficult to hear, full of effects and see very difficult ever to be published even if there is material available. All his scores for films Rossellini TV have a very similar structure with incidental music. This is the case of Gli Atti degli Apostoli (published in CAM ) , Il Messia , Cartesius , Agostino d' Ippona , Blaise Pascal , Anno Uno and L' Età di Cosimo di Medici . Is there material available to publish any of these scores?. Apart from the scores you've commented previously owned by Sugar Music , you know if the future publication of more scores than owned by Sugar Music is possible?. It would be possible to publish complete Barabbas?.
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Hello petruccio, all the tracks by Nascimbene on the two CAM CML LP albums 21 & 25 come from SOCRATE and not from another score by the composer. That's for sure!
The other Roberto Rossellini movies you mention - except GLI ATTI DEGLI APOSTOLI - were not owned by CAM anyway, some of them like BLAISE PASCAL or AGOSTINO D'IPPONA were even during the 70s owned by Sugarmusic. So it could be that nothing has been preserved at Sugar for them and you really would have to contact Andrea Mascitti in Orsogna (near Pescara) who nowadays - or rather since about 2002 - manages all the tapes of the Nascimbene estate:
http://www.nascimbeneaward.com/andrea_mascitti.html
I know that at least about 20 minutes of IL MESSIA (with flute solo by Severino Gazzelloni) must exist there because I have a copy of them, but I am not really sure about the other Rossellini scores.
But als long as no one is able to get in contact with Andrea Mascitti or to collaborate with him, nothing will happen with those tapes from the estate at all.
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Kronos continues to contribute to the Nascimbene discography via the Gold Collection:
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