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