Nino Rota: Film Music [EMI Classics]

• Main performer: Gianluigi Gelmetti
• Booklet languages: English
• Time: 59:24
• Release Date: 2004

Review

As a single-disc anthology of his cinema music (mostly) outside of his scores for Federico Fellini, this collection by Italian composer Nino Rota is a sketchily plotted, barely edifying volume. Here are themes and incidentals from War and Peace (King Vidor, 1956), The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963), La Strada (Fellini, 1954), and Waterloo (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1970). Why EMI chose multiple selections from these four pictures rather than single cuts from more movies is puzzling and slightly maddening. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi

Performances

Composer	Title	Time
Nino Rota	War and Peace, film score (I & II Introduzione - Valzer)	2:57
Nino Rota	War and Peace, film score (III. La Rosa di Novgorod)	2:04
Nino Rota	War and Peace, film score (IV. Finale)	2:33
Nino Rota	Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), film score (I. Allegro maestoso)	2:57
Nino Rota	Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), film score (II. Allegro impetuoso)	5:15
Nino Rota	Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), film score (III. Sostenuto appassionato - Finale)	3:55
Nino Rota	La Strada (The Road), film score (I. Country wedding - Zampano has arrived)	3:33
Nino Rota	La Strada (The Road), film score (II. The three musicians and the "Madman" on the tightrope)	3:36
Nino Rota	La Strada (The Road), film score (Rhumba)	2:24
Nino Rota	La Strada (The Road), film score (III. The circus (Zampano's number) - The jugglers - (The "Madman's" violin))	4:49
Nino Rota	La Strada (The Road), film score (IV. Zampano's anger)	3:43
Nino Rota	La Strada (The Road), film score (V. Zampano kills the "Madman" - Gelsomina goes mad with grief)	2:35
Nino Rota	La Strada (The Road), film score (VI. The last show in the snow - "Farewell Gelsomina")	3:00
Nino Rota	La Strada (The Road), film score (VII. Zampano alone and in tears)	4:28
Nino Rota	Waterloo, film score (I. Andante eroica - Tempo di Valzer)	3:19
Nino Rota	Waterloo, film score (II. Andante alla marcia - Mosso, non troppo)	4:22
Nino Rota	Waterloo, film score (III. Andante con moto - Alla marcia)	3:54

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