Film Music of Nino Rota

Film Music of Nino Rota

Film Music of Nino Rota
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Composer: Nino Rota
Performer: Massimo Palumbo
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2000-01-25
Music Label: Chandos
Soundtracks:
  1. Love's Theme
  2. Waltz, Rota, Nino
  3. Michael's Theme
  4. Theme
  5. Slow Waltz
  6. Verso Il Collegio/Towards the College
  7. Lezioni Al Collegio
  8. Mattina Dopo/The Next Morning
  9. Lezioni Di Ballo/Dance Lessons
  10. Tirolese/The Tyrolean
  11. Death on the Nile
  12. Romeo and Juliet
  13. Incontro Di Fntasmi
  14. Vita Notturna/Nocturnal
  15. ll Vecchio Palazzo/The Old Palace
  16. ll Cavaliere Fantasma E le Bambinaie/The Ghost-Knight and the Nurses
  17. Obsession
  18. Otto E Mezzo/8 1/2/Valzer Lento/Slow Waltz
  19. ll Gattopardo/The Leopard
  20. Rugiada Sui Ranocchi/Dew on the Frogs
  21. Teatrino Delle Suore/Nuns' Theatre
  22. Marca Columbia/Brand Columbia
  23. Dolce Italia/Sweet Italy
  24. Amore in Padova/Love in Padua
  25. Neapolitan Samba

Music reviews of Film Music of Nino Rota

Music Review: PERFECT FARE FOR DIEHARD NINO ROTA ENTHUSIASTS
Rating: 5 Stars

We're all in Chandos's debt. Like Prokofiev Nino Rota composed at the piano. Each man could take one melodic germ and spin it into an entire soundtrack (or ballet). As true Rota fans know the orchestrated versions by heart it's especially valuable to have his transcriptions played by one of Rota's close friends - duplicating his very personal style (briefly seen in 2 documentaries accompanying "La Dolce Vita" and "81/2").

The revelation on this disc is how beautiful the "Giulietta degll Spiriti" themes sound when played slowly on a piano. Up there with the "The Godfather" and "Romeo and Juliet" - but sadly never promoted by Henry Mancini!

Regarding soundtracks anyone hoping to recreate the "feel" of a Fellini film in their living rooms is out of luck. For the last 40 years CAM have not added one extra take to the very short albums they first produced on LP. As far as I know "The White Shiek and "I Vitelloni" have never been released. Especially sad in the latter case. An idea of what we've been missing can be gauged by viewing a 7'30 min concert version on YouTube.

Similarly CAM dissapointed every Fellini buff by excluding the famous Rumba scene on its "81/2" album. Thankfully YouTube also supplies this in its entirety. In "81/2" almost every key Rota track is truncated. But, as in "La Dolce Vita" CAM feel bound to include every non-Rota pop song or Wagnerian insert. Which ruins the overall "Rota experience". Ditto "Amarcord" being cut to down to a miserly 30 minutes.

Ironically the only soundtrack CD coming close to explaining how Nino Rota's film music was created is to be found on a Fellini short called "Toby Dammit" (37 mins long). From which another record company (CDM) have produced 19 tracks lasting 34 minutes. From this one hears how his one simple boogie-woogie figure could be given almost endless enterpretations - obviously with Nino Rota in attendance.

There can be little doubt the 2 greatest soundtrack composers in the last 70 years were Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann. One can but hope an entrepreneur will eventually do for Rota/Fellini/Visconti what "Rhino" did for Herrmann on its "North by Northwest" CD soundtrack release. All fifty cues - in the exact order they were used in the movie - conducted by Herrmann himself. Surely, somewhere in a vault in Cinecitta a thousand invaluable Rota cues are sitting waiting for a similar dedicated release from obscurity?






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