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Never heard of it but , as usual, I am looking forward to it.
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Mar 17, 2018 - 8:36 AM
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Score-Man-X
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Just the simple but very effective cover artwork is already a promise to a very adventurous score.
And the YouTube clip confirms this immediately!
Drama, adventure and romance - it's all included in this score.
It doesn't seem to be a day when someone doesn't ask for a new Golden Age release.
But the problem, however, is that it is unfortunately always the same few people who ask for new Golden Age releases.
It is not surprising that by the pass of time, there will always be fewer buyers for this type of music.
So here's a Golden Age score release, it's only from Italy.
But who, like me, in addition to the modern music also likes the old scores, he takes this score.
It's the same composing level as Victor Young or other Golden Age composers.
In a time of rapid diminishing demand for this type of music, the release of European Golden Age scores is perhaps
the only way in the future to get such old music on CD. I do not believe that CD labels like INTRADA or LA-LA LAND
or KRITZERLAND are able to restore such an old scores for only 350 CDs. I think that would be financially a losing business.
May be that in 10 years European CD labels like AHAMBRA or QUARTET, SAIMEL, MUSIC BOX etc. are the last ones
that can still release such old scores on CD. Since the European labels can certainly not make a real profit with only 350 CDs,
I sometimes think that the people behind the CD labels must be Socialists or Communists. Maybe the CD Labels should register
as a non-profit organization that could bring tax benefits!
In addition, everything in Europe is subsidized by the EU. Perhaps the European CD labels should also apply for subsidies.
Justification: Preservation of European music heritage!
May be James Fitzpatrick/TADLOW can also apply for subsidies for the new recordings of James Bernard's Hammer Horror Scores.
And Miklós Rózsa was born in Budapest, so his music is also a part of the European music heritage. Not to forget the other emigrated Golden Age composers. But damn, I forgot that England will leave the EU. It might be a silly decision.
On the other hand, the recordings take place in Prague, so a possibility for subsidies from de EU...?
Anyway, I hope all this labels LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!
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Being able to still buy Italian scores from the 50's-60's is a blessing. All my love and thanks goes out to Allhambra, BEAT, Digitmovies, Kronos et al for keeping this music alive. Thank you to all the composers family members, societies and estates for their generosity as well.
I just don't get why Americans that want Golden-Silver age releases do not reach out to Italy and the rest of the world.
Many thanks for your kind words.
From my own long experience I would say the reason that so few American collectors who otherwise want Golden Age releases reach out to something like this is quite simply the unfamiliarity with the films and the scores. Regarding symphonic Italian scores of that time of the early 60s, most Americans know and want only peplum scores because this genre was also so much popular in the USA in former times and they are familiar with many of those movies (even when some of the scores got replaced for the US versions). However, with other genres it becomes more difficult. Therefore a peplum genre score will most often sell better than such a rather unknown adventure score to a movie set around late 18th/early 19th century which almost nobody on this board knows.
But we will certainly also release another peplum score by Lavagnino on Alhambra in the future. Mabye later this year or next year.
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Hi, Stefan.
First, thanks for producing these volumes of Lavagnino music and for helping to rescue master tapes from obscurity.
Secondly, what reason do you think is why Lavagnino's swashbuckling film music has not been on albums before?
Seems to me that there are around 5 such Zorro or Zorroesque pictures scored by Lavagnino:
L'invincibile cavaliere mascherato (Invincible Masked Rider) 1963
Golia e il cavaliere mascherato (Hercules and the Masked Rider) 1963
Zorro il ribelle (Zorro the Rebel) 1966
Zorro alla corte d'Inghilterra (Zorro in the Court of England) 1969
Zorro marchese di Navarra (Zorro, the Navarra Marquis) 1969
Do any of these titles exist in the Lavagnino master tape archives?
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First of all, the music publisher for all these 5 swashbuckler titles you mention had been Nazionalmusic (or rather its subsidiary company Sonorfilm). This means that all of the original master tapes for these scores have long been destroyed. (The same is of course also true for LEGGENDA DI FRA DIAVOLO which originally had also been a Nazionalmusic title in 1962).
Only for ZORRO IL RIBELLE from 1966 one private tape is still available in the Lavagnino estate. So this is a score which maybe in future could be released on CD. However, as far as I remember from once seeing the film also a few pieces from GOLIA E IL CAVALIERE MASCHERATO (for example the Main Title is the same) had been reused there. So I don´t know how much original tracks do indeed exist on that tape.
For the last film of this ZORRO series - ZORRO MARCHESE DI NAVARRA - Lavagnino did compose no orignal music at all anymore - so only pre-existing music from the previous Zorro films had been recycled.
I would have to check it again, but I am quite sure that also for ZORRO ALLA CORTE D´INGHILTERRA some tracks from ZORRO CONTRO MACISTE, GOLIA and ZORRO IL RIBELLE had been used again.
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The main theme is certainly rumbustious and prove very flexible in the different variations, but it is the quieter lyrical music and romantic music that charms in the way Lavagnino was so great at The use of Italian instruments like mandolin in the folk style cues adds to the variety in the score. The booklet is beautifully and lovingly presented with information on the film and score as usual. It is a great listen and another worthy addition to Alhambra's great series of Lavagnino scores.
What a tremendous collection of Lavagnino music Alhambra has preserved, and long may it continue!
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