NINO ROTA Collector

 

1. Melodia per Fortunella

(Theme from the Godfather)

Fortunella 1958

2. Lo Sceicco bianco (thème)

Lo Sceicco bianco 1952

3. I Vitelloni

I Vittelloni 1953

4. La Strada (thème)

La Strada 1954

5. La Strada : Gesolmina

La Strada 1954

6. Bidone (thème)

Il Bidone

7. Le Notti di Cabiria (thème)

Le Notti de Cabiria 1957

8. Plein soleil (thème)

Plein soleil 1960

9. La Dolce Vita (final)

La Dolce Vita 1960

10. La Dolce Vita (chanson)

La Dolce Vita 1960

11. Terra lontana

Rocco & His Brothers

12. Otto e Mezzo

8 and a Half 1963

13. Giulietta degli Spiriti

Juliette des Esprits (1965)

14. Amarcord: Le Marine de Primave

Amarcord 1976

15. Casanova

Casanova 1976

16. Valse del Commiato

Il Gattopardo 1963

 

To commemorate the centenary of Nino Rota’s birth, Milan Music present this Nino Rota Collector edition, gathering some of the most beautiful themes ever written for the silver screen.

 

Born in Milan in 1911 into a musicians’ family, Nino Rota composed his first oratorio in 1923, L’Infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, when he was just 12 years old. Later he studied at the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia. Back in Milan in 1933, Nino Rota continued studying and began his composing career with soundtracks: Treno popolare (Raffaelo Matarazzo, 1933), Zazà (Renato Castellani, 1944). Thereafter, he began to work actively for the cinema; he met Federico Fellini who was working on his first film, Lo sceicco bianco (1952). Nino Rota had an exemplary collaboration with Fellini for the rest of his life, especially with I Vitelloni (1953), La strada (1954), and La dolce vita (1960). The score for 8½ remains one of the most important elements of the film, giving it coherence, and staying long in the spectator’s mind.

 

Nino Rota also composed for Luchino Visconti (Rocco and his brothers, 1960; The Leopard, 1963), and Francis Ford Coppola, in particular the extraordinary theme for The Godfather, which got the Oscar for the best original movie score in 1972.

 

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