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May 10, 2018 - 8:51 PM
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SchiffyM
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This is a wonderful disc, but what I love most of all is it got me to listen to Rota's concert work, "Sinfonia Sopra una Canzone D'amore," from which he derived much of the thematic material for this score.
While the score, to serve the film, repeats the same passages with some frequency, the Sinfonia is tight, tuneful, and delightful. (While most of the film score comes from it, the reverse is not true – the piece has a lot of material that did not make it into the score.) Several recordings are available on Apple Music, and I'm sure on the other streaming services as well.
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This is a wonderful disc, but what I love most of all is it got me to listen to Rota's concert work, "Sinfonia Sopra una Canzone D'amore," from which he derived much of the thematic material for this score.
Several recordings are available on Apple Music, and I'm sure on the other streaming services as well.
I especially can recommend the excellent Decca 2CD-set releases 'Nino Rota Orchestral Works' by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi conducted by Giuseppe Grazioli. There are 6 volumes released and I heard that maybe 5 more are planned. Vol 5 released in 2017 has this Sinfonia sopra una canzone d'amore as well as the complete La Strada ballet (total time 76:19 mins, most recordings of this ballet are much shorter) and there is also a very nice suite of Casanova (orchestrated by Bruno Moretti) with a more concert-like rendition of this music for Fellini's film. Volume 4 in the series is dedicated to Sacred Works (vocal) and is the only one I'm still missing.
Thank you Couvee for this excellent information, well worth further investigation! My copy of IL Gattopardo just arrived from Spain this morning. I'm just about to have a listen now.
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This is a wonderful disc, but what I love most of all is it got me to listen to Rota's concert work, "Sinfonia Sopra una Canzone D'amore," from which he derived much of the thematic material for this score. While the score, to serve the film, repeats the same passages with some frequency, the Sinfonia is tight, tuneful, and delightful. (While most of the film score comes from it, the reverse is not true – the piece has a lot of material that did not make it into the score.)
Only the last two movements (Andante sostenuto and Finale) of the "Sinfonia sopra una canzone d´amore" formed the thematic material for IL GATTOPARDO.
The first movement on the other hand was the basis for Rota´s THE GLASS MOUNTAIN film score from 1950, although the main theme itself had even been composed earlier in 1943 for the Italian movie LA DONNA DELLA MONTAGNA which had been directed by Renato Castellani.
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now this is some grand news one of my holiest of grails to be released. was this available prior, i can't find an info.
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