Nino Rota Collector / Milan Audio CD 2011 / 399 367-2

Nino Rota Collector / Milan Audio CD 2011 / 399 367-2UPC 3299039936726Giovanni Rota Rinaldi(Italian:[dovannirtarinaldi]; 3 December 1911 10 April 1979),better known asNino Rota(IPA:[nino]), was an Italiancomposer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for hisfilm scores, notably for the films ofFederico FelliniandLuchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two ofFranco Zeffirelli’sShakespeare screen adaptations, and for the first two installments ofFrancis Ford Coppola’sThe Godfathertrilogy, earning theAcademy Award for Best Original ScoreforThe Godfather Part II(1974).During his long career, Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979 an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed tenoperas, fiveballetsand dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli andEduardo De Filippoas well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale inBari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years.Label:Milan 399 367-2Series:Forever Soundtrack 1200Format:CD, CompilationCountry:EuropeReleased: 2011Genre:Stage & ScreenStyle:SoundtrackTracklist:1Melodia per Fortunella (From “Le parrain [The Godfather]”) 4:492Lo Sceicco Bianco1:183I Vitelloni3:074La Strada1:545Gesolmina (From ”La Strada”)3:326Bidone3:177Le Notti Di Cabiria2:068Plein Soleil2:039La dolce vita (Final)3:0110La dolce vita (Chanson)5:4011Terra lontana (From “Rocco et ses frres”)2:4612Otto E Mezzo (From “Huit Et Demi”)3:2513Giulietta Degli Spiriti (From “Juliette Des Esprits”)4:3114Le Marine de Primavera (From “Amarcord”)1:3915Casanova4:0016Valse Del Commiato (From “Il Gattopardo [Le Gupard]”)4:02