Amarcord musica di nino rota biography
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Nino Rota: Amarcord 2LP
Heritage Collection N°1
Nino Rota’s soundtrack for Federico Fellini’s milestone and 1974 Oscar-winning film Amarcord. Rota’s music is superb in evoking the visions and scents of Fellini’s boyhood in Rimini, resulting in a timeless classic that stands as a symbol of Italian culture and rural charm in the world. The soundtrack is presented for the first time ever as a CD and a 180gr gatefold double LP, carefully restored and remastered from the original master tapes, featuring 15 tracks previously unreleased on vinyl.
Tracklist:
Side A
1. AMARCORD
2. LA FOGARACCIA
3. LE MANINE DI PRIMAVERA
4. LO STRUSCIO / QUEL MOTIVETTO CHE MI PIACE TANTO / STORMY WEATHER / LA CUCARACHA
5. L’EMIRO E LE SUE ODALISCHE / SALOMÉ – ABAT-JOUR
6. GARY COOPER
Side B
1. LA GRADISCA E IL PRINCIPE
2. SIBONEY
3. DANZANDO NELLA NEBBIA
4. TUTTI A VEDERE IL REX
5. QUANTO MI PIACE LA GRADISCA
6. LA GRADISCA SI SPOSA E SE NE VA
Side C
1. AMARCORD (GUITAR AND HARMONICA)
2. SIBONEY
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Article by Craig Lysy
Born: 3 December 1911, Milan, Italy.
Died: 10 April 1979.Giovanni Rota was born to Emesta Rinaldi and Ercole Rota in Milan in the northern Italian province of Lombardy. He was blessed with the gift of a musical family, as his mother was an accomplished pianist. She took the reigns of nurturing his nascent talent, tutoring him on the piano. It became apparent to her very early on that Nino was begåvad, and so he was enrolled in the Conservatory of Milan, where he studied beneath the auspices of Giacomo Orefice and Ildebrando Pizzetti. By the early age of twelve Nino, as he was nicknamed, had already gained the reputation as a child prodigy. His first concert work, the oratorio L’Infanzia di San Giovanni Battista (1923), which remarkably he had composed fyra years earlier, was warmly received in both Milan and Paris, For his next concert piece, he composed the fairy musikdrama Il Principe Porcaro (1926), which was also well received. These successes carried him