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Ti Ho Sposato Per Allegria (1967) is a comedy directed by Luciano Salce, taken from the theatrical play of the same name (1965) by Natalia Ginzburg. A lawyer from a good family, serious, accustomed to a calm and regular life who got married to a indolent and dazed girl with a difficult past a month after meeting her at a party. The story has become a minor classic with each new representation. On both stage and screen the themes of everyday life, and the more complex and existential ones, are addressed. The subtle irony of the work relies on recounting problematic events in a carefree tone: realities such as abortion, death, separation and the couple's incommunicability are underplayed with naturalness. The funny events of the film are commented on by Piero Piccioni's music, published for the first time on vinyl by Musica Per Immagini, with a harmonious tracklist. For this first orchestra rehearsal with the director, which will be followed by other important soundtracks, the composer makes an effective and elegant synthesis: on the one hand he reworks moods and aesthetic intuitions of some previous and happy experiences, while on the other he identifies and anticipates the first bars of that unmistakable sound between bossa nova, funk and lounge nuances that will characterize almost all the production of the '70s. In fact, the Turin-native artist simplifies in a positive sense the articulated harmonic structures that have always distinguished his authorial figure -- where the so-called jazz features are to be considered more than central in the musical texture, as prominent elements of the harmonic syntax -- and he tries a melodic reduction that will make the compositions more-catchy or memorized, but not easier for this. Lightness of spirit and rarefied elegance are the keys of this new Dionysian world.
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Piero Zuffi made this bizarre film set in the seedy underbelly of Off-Broadway productions, hippie communities, S&M bars and bike gangs. The story follows a serial killer on the loose and an investigator looking into an heiress' kidnapping. With the help of editor Franco Arcalli, the movie was reconfigured into an effective fever dream with a non-linear structure. Once more the music composed by maestro Piero Piccioni is better than the movie. A wonderful kaleidoscope of psychedelic oddness favors the composer's jazz roots and strong percussion work, but also features delightful bursts of source music as well as the self-contained brilliance of the occasional set pieces -- including background scores for the experimental productions of the Off-Broadway world. This highly addictive score, impossible to find on the original LP released by RCA in 1970 and reissued on vinyl only by South Korean label Beatball can finally benefit from a meticulous restoration from the original master tapes, thanks to the involvement of Piccioni's family. It's exactly like buying a copy in 1970 without any compression and digital artifacts. Black vinyl pressing of 500 copies worldwide.
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Sonor Music Editions unveils the previously unreleased soundtrack of the sexy-comedy film Chi Dice Donna Dice Donna from 1976 directed by Tonino Cervi. The music is signed here by the legendary Italian giant of film music, maestro Piero Piccioni, and it's just unbelievable. This rich EP reissue includes the sweet and romantic downtempo funk of "Svezia" theme, previously released on a very rare original 45 single, and three totally unreleased cuts from the session that swing between the refined and golden Piero Piccioni's music taste and the groovy, funky vibes of Commedia all'Italiana soundtrack music at his best. Edition of 500.
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A commissar with his hands tied and a gentleman godfather. A gang of ruthless kidnappers and a couple of parents ready to pay any amount to hold their missing daughter again. The evocative backdrop of Lake Como and the rare beauty of Piero Piccioni's music. Fatevi Vivi, La Polizia Non Interverrà (1974), also known as Kidnap, is a detective story directed by Giovanni Fago, with actors of the caliber of Henry Silva, Gabriele Ferzetti and Philippe Leroy. The film draws inspiration from the many cases of kidnappings recorded during the seventies. The first vinyl edition of the soundtrack, edited by Musica Per Immagini, offers the listener a selection of his most significant tracks, carefully remastered, already released on CD. The soundtrack is a fabulous mix of lounge atmospheres, explosive action music, and mysterious moments from which the sound of tubular bells emerge, as in the bittersweet pentaphonic opener "Lovely Mood". Synthesis of a different mood from that adopted by his peers, exemplary in "Ambushers, "played by bass, guitar and piano, plus the string section in counterpoint. True hip-hop break. Within the depths of the tracklist, it is easy to identify the third axis of the project, The Persuaders, thanks to the irresistible rhythm of the brass. The Sicilian mafia motif is also distinctive, punctuated by the traditional sound of the Jew's harp. Another distinguishable aspect of Piero Piccioni's work is the wealth of themes. The composer goes beyond the model that provides for the creation of a main theme and a secondary theme with related variations, because he creates leitmotifs and musical figurations tailored to each of the salient situations and related protagonists.
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Anastasia Mio Fratello Ovvero Il Presunto Capo Dell'anonima Assassini (aka "My Brother Anastasia") is a crime drama directed by Steno in 1973 and starring Alberto Sordi and Richard Conte. In 1973, RCA issued an album containing 13 tracks in stereo selected by the composer himself. In 2010, thirty-seven years after the release of the film in theaters, the specialty label GDM released this prestigious original soundtrack for the first time on CD, with 14 unreleased tracks in addition to the vintage album program. For this new edition, Beat Records were able to use the stereo masters of the original recording session, which allowed the label to create a special double-disc set: on CD one, the original album program, and on CD two, the bonus tracks of the previous GDM CD plus ten unreleased tracks that appear here for the first time ever. For this dramatic film that straddles the line between gangster movie and comedy, Piero Piccioni composed an OST for a large orchestra with American sounds incorporating funk, jazz, and blues, beginning with "Surprise pastorale" and alternating with romantic music for orchestra and choir in "America dreaming." Piccioni uses swing in "New York! New York!" (with splendid intervention by Cantori Moderni) and in "Swingin 'at Savoy," classic rock n' roll in "Rockin' Chair Stomp" and warm South American rhythms in "Sweet Marimbas" and "Mariposa Rosada." The most dramatic scenes are underlined with exciting, police-like sounds such as the recurring "Gunz Concert, pt.1," where the organ emerges in the orchestra (such a piece would not have been out of place in Live and Let Die, the first time by Roger Moore filled the role of James Bond), among other things from the same year. The romantic side of Piccioni returns in "Love in Brooklyn, pt.1," for piano and large orchestra. The sensual voice of Shawn Robinson, frequent collaborator of the maestro, performs "Feeling Low Blues." The listener will remain in the company of the elegant music of Piero Piccioni for about an hour and forty minutes, each time with evergreen admiration, as we continue to be amazed by the greatness of this beloved artist. Mastering and liner notes by Claudio Fuiano, graphic layout by Daniele De Gemini.
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1980, a crossroad full of living icons in a single movie interpreted and directed by Alberto Sordi, Io E Caterina. So, Alberto Sordi, Edwige Fenech, the year of release, 1980, what do you need to get an absolute masterpiece? The soundtrack composer, maestro Piero Piccioni. It can be said it openly, one of its greatest scores for cinema, intense, full of energy, orchestral, funky, melodic, touching, enthralling, passionate. An album that will be the score of your private summer, on your turntable, in your sitting-rooms or as a late '70s background for your cocktails, together with Edwige dancing with an eye-arresting dress and great Alberto drinking a cup of champagne watching the diva of two decades dancing exclusively for him, everything under the gaze of Caterina, a robot-maiden more human than it could be thought. The album features the original album track list, never released before alternate takes and everything in stereo, carefully remastered by Claudio Fuiano. 180 gram vinyl featuring a printed inner sleeve full of original artworks, liner notes by Fabio Babini and an homage to Piero Piccioni written by his son Jason that tells a nice story happened in the studio during the recording session, 40 years ago... Do not miss it...
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Un Tentativo Sentimentale is the first film by the novelist Pasquale Festa Campanile, written and directed together with Massimo Franciosa in 1963. The film fits into the path traced by Michelangelo Antonioni with his "trilogy of incommunicability" in the early years of the decade, staging a bourgeois existential drama shot between the Roman districts of Parioli and Vigna Clara and the beach of Sabaudia. The original soundtrack is one of the most beautiful and particular among those composed in the '60s by maestro Piero Piccioni, who works on rarefied and melancholy jazz atmospheres dominated by his piano and the trumpet of the immense Nunzio Rotondo, main soloists flanked by other giants of the Italian jazz scene such as Franco Chiari (vibraphone), Marcello Boschi (alto sax), Ivan Vandor (tenor sax) and Berto Pisano (double bass).
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Warehouse find, original stock from 2000. First issue in the Maestro Series from Black Cat Records, this retrospective dedicated to one of the main names among the great Italian movie soundtrack composers, Piero Piccioni, covers his stunning career form his exotica recordings of the early sixties to the big-band beat of Camille 2000 (with an unreleased track from the movie soundtrack). The compilation includes an unreleased vocal track that Shawn Robinson (who, along with Lydia Mac Donald, was the composer's vocalist of choice) performed for a Bossa Nova Suite and many others unissued-before tracks from the Maestro's incredible repertoire, to create a tribute that could be comparable to the legacy that Piero Piccioni left. 14 tracks retrospective, compiled by Italian DJ/TV producer Alessandro Casella for his Black Cat label for the "Maestro" series, on one of the most prolific and representative soundtrack composers of the '70s Italian jazz scene.
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Beat Records is pleased to reissue on double-CD Tutti Dentro (aka "Ab in den Knast" and "Everybody in Jail") a comedy directed in 1984 by Alberto Sordi, with a screenplay by Alberto Sordi and Rodolfo Sonego, photography by Sergio D'Offizi, editing by Tatiana Casini Morigi, music score by Piero Piccioni and production by Augusto Caminito for Scena Film. The cast includes Alberto Sordi, Joe Pesci, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Armando Francioli, Giuseppe Mannajuolo, Giorgia Moll, Gianni Rizzo, Franco Scandurra, Marisa Solinas, Tino Bianchi, Giordano Falzoni, and Carlo Deni. In 1984, General Music released a 33RPM (GM 30714) assembled by the composer containing twelve selections in stereo. Maestro Piccioni chose dance pieces alternating with romantic themes, plus three different versions of the song "By And By", featuring the voice of Gloria Paul. With great pleasure, Beat Records reissue the original vinyl album program for the first time on CD, but there's more. Having access to the stereo masters of the recording session, the label discovered 26 unreleased tracks, resulting in this fabulous soundtrack presentation on a double-CD set. The listener will thus be able to appreciate orchestral romantic themes, instrumental versions of "By And By", dance pieces and alternate versions of the cues on the original album. At the end of disc two, a special treat for fans of the beloved Maestro Piccioni: the composer plays the main theme on the piano, introducing it with his own voice. Mastering and liner notes by Claudio Fuiano, graphic layout by Daniele De Gemini. Includes 12-page booklet.
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Winner of the Goldener Bär at the 1963 Berlin Film Festival, Il Diavolo is the third feature film by director Gian Luigi Polidoro, an Italian film irregular who has signed only a handful of films poised between comedy and eroticism between the '60s and '80s. Written by Rodolfo Sonego and interpreted by an Alberto Sordi in a state of grace, Il Diavolo takes up a theme already addressed by Polidoro and Sonego in Le Svedesi of 1960, that is the Italic myth of the Swedish woman and trips to Scandinavia of our unlikely and provincial Latin lovers. A notable success at home and abroad, the film was renamed To Bed ... or Not To Bed for the American market and won Alberto Sordi a Golden Globe for best comedy actor in 1964. The soundtrack written by maestro Piero Piccioni alternates orchestral songs with a romantic flavor, swing era jazz and lounge sketches with a samba twist. Reissued for the first time on vinyl since its release in 1963, the album represents a perfect compendium of Piccioni's style of the early '60s and one of the first peaks of the collaboration with Sordi and Sonego, an artistic and human partnership built to last.
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WHP preset a reissue of Piero Piccioni's original score for Il Boom, originally released on CAM in 1963. Written by Cesare Zavattini, directed by Vittorio De Sica, and interpreted by Alberto Sordi, Il Boom can be easily considered as one of the most peculiar film comedies in the Italian post-war era. Premiered in the USA in 2017, more than 50 years after its release in 1963, the film has been described as something between Buster Keaton, David Lynch, and Billy Wilder. Some sort of very current dark satire of the consumer society. Part of the film's surreal atmosphere is due to the original score composed and produced by the legendary Piero Piccioni. A weird and very dynamic mixture of different music styles including jazz and various popular dance grooves of the period such as samba, twist, calypso, and hully gully. A simple and yet very effective compositional technique based on both serious and funny elements at the same time. The soundtrack includes "Samba Della Ruota", Piccioni's first use of samba for Alberto Sordi's films. A choice that would soon become a real passion and trademark for the great Italian comic actor.
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One of Piero Piccioni's best contributions for the seveth art. Recorded for the homonymous documentary (1974) by Folco Quilici and Carlo Alberto Pinelli, looking for some people who reject civilization to withdraw in nature and peace, Il Dio Sotto La Pelle was released for the first time in 2000, quickly becoming one of the most sought-after records by many collectors and fans. Musica Per Immagini and Sonor Music Editions release a renewed edition of Il Dio Sotto La Pelle, where jazz, exotic and lounge music and psychedelia are mixed in an admirable way: introduced by the dreamy voice of Catherine Howe for "It's Possible", Piero Piccioni's organ gives you fragments of a dazzling splendor such as "Night To Come" or "Give Love A Chance", while "Inventions" and "Katmandu" handed down to the posterity the guitarist vein of the opera, demonstration of the period of great creativity crossed by the Italian composers, capable of filtering their traditional and classical action with some rock elements. Il Dio Sotto La Pelle is available again as double-LP album with tracks remastered by Claudio Fuiano from first generation master tapes and sequenced by Lorenzo Fabrizi. Also including twelve unreleased gems, new graphics inspired by the original posters. Designed by Luca Barcellona and Marco Ferretti's liner notes.
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Beat Records presents for the first time on CD the complete edition of the soundtrack by Piero Piccioni for L'Italia Vista Dal Cielo, a series of fourteen documentaries directed by Folco Quilici from 1966 to 1978, all commissioned, sponsored, and produced by Italian Esso with the aim of portraying the scenic, artistic and architectural beauties of each region of Italy with aerial shots taken by helicopter. The most prestigious theaters were chosen in the capitals of the interested regions, such as the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Teatro Argentina in Rome, the Teatro Nuovo in Milan, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Petruzzelli Theater in Bari and the Municipal Theater in Bologna, screened in the presence of political, civil, cultural, and religious representatives. The films were also shown in schools and universities and in the main cities of each region, eventually also disseminated abroad with English, French, German, and Spanish versions. Numerous screenings were organized together with the Italian embassies and institutes of culture through an agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The films were put on display at fairs, Italian festivals, and other events. Presented here are the beautiful scores by Piccioni for the L'Italia Vista Dal Cielo episodes "Emilia," "Marche", and "Sicilia" in their entirety, assembled from the stereo master tapes of the original recording sessions. Previously, only one mono track called "Primavera" was issued on a C.A.M. library LP. For the regions "Emilia" and "Marche," Piccioni composed a score that is a true hymn to the joy of living. The main titles theme ("Primavera") provides the background for the aerial shots of colorful balloons flying in the background of a blue sky with green landscapes below, a perfect marriage of music and image. The pleasing motif is performed by a symphonic orchestra with beat arrangements. Piero Piccioni reprises this main theme with many wonderful versions, including Latin American, beat, sacred, cheerful, sad, slow, fast, etc., each allowing the listener to realize the greatness of this musician. For the "Sicily" region, Piero Piccioni wrote pastoral passages of rare beauty with sparse instrumentation including organ, guitar, flute, and oboe. This CD represents another wonderful addition to the ever-growing discography of Piccioni. Jewel case with a 12-page booklet designed by Alessio Iannuzzi. Mastering and liner notes by Claudio Fuiano.
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Digitmovies present a reissue of Piero Piccioni's original soundtrack for La Citta' Prigioniera, originally released in 1962. Piccioni, one of the colossal names of international film music, composed this symphonic OST in the early '60s where gloomy and tense passages frequently recur to perfectly describe the dramatic situation in Athens during the Second World War. The author alternates a melancholic love theme that timidly emerges to contrast with suspense music and exciting battle pieces, all enriched with Greek folk music. Originally C.A.M. released a vinyl LP containing fifteen tracks in mono and an EP single with two tracks in mono. In 1991, the same material was re-released for the first time on CD in the series C.A.M.'s Soundtrack Encyclopedia with audio filtered in Dolby Surround. For Digitmovies' CD, the label was able to use a first-generation master tape with the LP recording along with the mono master tapes from the original recording session, discovering almost forty minutes of previously unreleased material, all specially restored.
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Digitmovies release, for the first time on CD, the complete edition of Piero Piccioni's original sound track for the drama The Big Night (aka Bad Girls Don't Cry, original title La Notte Brava). Piero Piccioni (1921-2004) wrote and directed this score where jazz and blues create the right atmosphere for the young protagonists of the story. Originally, not a single note was released from this prestigious soundtrack. Digitmovies' CD was possible thanks to the mono master tapes from the original recording session. Maestro Piccioni composed a recurring main score which is introduced in the opening credits and reprised in different versions: slow for bassoons, with horns, a fast swing, and with the addition of female voices. Piero Piccioni alternates this with numerous dance melodies like the mambo, rock n'roll, swing, tango, and the song with a female voice, "Hello You", which is reprised in an instrumental version. The inner side of the main characters is emphasized by very evocative passages. This album is another masterpiece by Piero Piccioni which has finally been recovered and preserved on CD forever. Edition of 300.
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2011 release. Digitmovies remember the great Alberto Sordi by releasing, for the first time on CD Piero Piccioni's original soundtrack in full stereo for the movie Finchè C'è Guerra C'è Speranza (aka "Where There Was War There's Hope"). Directed by and starring Alberto Sordi with Silvia Monti, Alessandro Cutolo, Matilde Costa Giuffrida, Edoardo Faceta, Mauro Firmani, Eliana De Santis, and Fernando Daviddi. Pietro Chiocca (Sordi) is a water pumps dealer who succeeds in improving his standard of living by devoting himself to a more lucrative business, the one of weapons, and so he spends his own life touring the countries of the third world, mangled by civil wars, while his family lives in luxury in a new villa to which the family has just moved away. All is going very well until one day a journalist of the Corriere della Sera, who gave him the contact to sell the weapons to a national liberation movement in Angola, in public denounces Chiocca's actions with an article titled -- I have met a death merchant. Wife and sons show all their contempt, but then presented with the alternative to dispense with the comforts and luxuries they are now accustomed to, they will prefer to keep on pretending to not knowing anything about the source of the family father's money. Piero Piccioni has written one of his nicest OSTs with colors from Africa and from Latin America: it was indeed for this movie that the composer has written a theme which has become the one among many that identifies the comical, but also nostalgic figure of Alberto Sordi: "Rugido Do Leao", a sparkling samba the actor-director wanted to be re-used as main title for the very popular TV program Story Of An Italian conceived, realized, and hosted by Sordi himself, containing selected scenes from his movies and broadcasted during four seasons between 1979 and 1986. For this CD Digitmovies could use the first-generation stereo master tape assembled for the original album issued in 1974, which in fact contains all the music recorded for the movie. The label also uncovers three unreleased versions of "Rugido Do Leao".
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Digitmovies release for the first time on CD Piero Piccioni's complete original soundtrack for the movie Il Monaco (aka "The Monk") in full stereo. Directed in 1972 by Ado Kyrou and starring Franco Nero, Nathalie Delon, Nicol Williamson, Elisabeth Wiener, Nadja Tiller, and Eliana De Santis. The scenario by Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière is based on the novel The Monk written in 1796 by Matthew Gregory Lewis. In 17th century Madrid Father Ambrosio (Nero), prior of the Capuchins, is noted for the austerity of his costumes, his intransigent faith and his excessive chastity. The monk gives in to carnal temptations by copulating with the very beautiful Mathilde (Delon), a witch sent to earth by Satan and who introduces herself disguised as a male novice. After becoming his lover, she moves to the castle of Duke Calembour (Williamson), a diabolical being who lets little female orphans being kidnapped for the sole purpose of eating them or sacrificing them to the devil. The little girl Antonia enters the scene with whom the monk falls in love, but when he can't take hold of her, he later kills her mother. After remorse and confession of his crimes, Ambrosio falls anew into the dark whirlpool of sin bewitched by the magic arts of Mathilde whom he follows to the castle. There the protagonist finds again the little girl Antonia who commits suicide after being kidnapped by the evil duke. With the intervention of the inquisition the nobleman, Mathilde and the monk are arrested: Calembour suceeds in being declared innocent; due to her powers, the witch sets herself free; father Ambrosio, by selling his soul to the devil, not only escapes his faults, but he will even become pope. In 1993 Cinevox issued nine selections from the score on the CD Fantafestival Vol. 4. For Digitmovies' CD the label has used every note recorded in stereo at that time and preserved on the original master tapes of the Cinevox Record archives. Legendary composer Piero Piccioni has written a short, but very effective symphonic score of a dramatic kind that evokes the whole atmosphere of the plot between sacred and profane, emphasizing above all the diabolical side. The monk theme is introduced in "Main Titles", a sacred, Gregorian chant-like motif for organ and orchestra where strings intrude with macabre dissonances. Satan's presence is often underlined by slow and gloomy music.
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2004 release. Digitmovies reissue the soundtrack by Piero Piccioni from the movie directed in 1972 by Domenico Paolella (aka Paolo Dominici, Le Monache Di Sant'arcangelo. Published on a rare LP, the comment it describes the appearing rigor of the monastic life of a female convent. One young Ornella Muti is one young nun who continues secretly outside a loving history with a boy, but same it is object of "particular" attentions from the mother priora (Anne Heywood). Here, Piccioni has written liturgic topics for chorus and classical music, inspiring itself to music of 17th century. Using the stereophonic tapes complete of the Recording session they have been added six takes never appeared before. This C includes also the complete soundtrack of Storia Di Una Monaca Di Clausura, directed by Domenico Paolella in 1973 and interpreted by Suzy Kendall, Catherine Spaak, and Eleonora Giorgi. A morose story in a dark monastery where the devil's presence is. Piero Piccioni wrote a completely new soundtrack, but in the film, they have re-use music from the first film. This CD includes only the compositions written for this sequel.
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2014 release. Digitmovies release Piero Piccioni's complete original soundtrack for the film Romolo E Remo (aka "Duel Of The Titans"). In 1961 when the film came out, no record was released. But in 1984 a 33rpm LP finally saw the light of day. The record was in the Phoenix limited edition series and contained 19 tracks. It was then rereleased twice in 1995 on CD at C.A.M. Soundtrack Encyclopedia. For Digitmovies' CD they were able to access the mono master tapes from the original recording session and the first-generation master tape assembled by the author for a vinyl record. The label discovered previously unreleased music. Piccioni composed a recurring battle theme emphasizing French horns for the two protagonists. This theme alternates with very dramatic war songs having an ethnic pastoral theme for the wolf scene and a mystical theme for the soldiers at the spring. Directed in 1961 by Sergio Corbucci. The film tells the story of two founding brothers of Rome, from their birth to their death. Romulus and Remus are the children of Rea Silvia who was banished and condemned to death by Amulias. Amulias abandons the brothers to die in the Tiber river but they are saved by a female wolf who raises them like her own pups. The brothers decide to build their own small village and start by demarcating their terrain. Remus disobeys his brother when he violates his boundaries and is then killed. Later you see Romulus as an adult who has become the first king of Rome and head of the army against the king of the Sabines, Titus Tatius. At this point the famous event happens -- The Rape of the Sabine Women, where Romulus abducts Sabine women in order to create families with them and his tribe. This causes a war between the two tribes. In a certain sense Rome comes out as the winner because the Sabines join them and become one Roman people. At the end, the old Romulus dies during a stormy night and ascends to heaven, taking the name of "Quirinus".
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Digitmovies release for the first time a double-CD with Piero Piccioni's original soundtrack for the 1985 comedy film Sono Un Fenomeno Paranormale ("Babasciò", or "I'm an ESP"). Piero Piccioni composed one of his most brilliant soundtracks for this film. He uses sentimental and elegant themes to accompany the protagonist on his journey from Italy to India, including numerous pieces using sitar and tablas. On this soundtrack, Edda Dell'Orso with her crystal voice is the exceptional guest star we can hear on numerous tracks. Originally, General Music had released an LP containing sixteen tracks in stereo. For this double album (totaling over two hours) Digitmovies have included over an hour and a half of new material with film versions and alternate takes which we discovered in addition to the original master which had been assembled for the album. This album proves the artistic greatness of Piero Piccioni once again, not only for the huge amount of material recorded (most of which was not used in the film), but also the high quality of the scores, which are reprised in different versions and with different instruments. Edition of 300.
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Doxy present Piero Piccioni's complete soundtrack for the 1963 film Il Terrorista on vinyl for the first time. Directed in 1963 by Gianfranco De Bosio and starring Gian Maria Volontè, Anouk Aimée, Tino Carraro, Philippe Leroy, the great Piero Piccioni created "easy listening" music such as foxtrots, band music, waltzes as opposed to serious music for large orchestras that dramatically describes all the historical and political aspect of the story. Complete version for the first time on vinyl. Edition of 500.
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Digitmovies present Piero Piccioni's complete original soundtrack in mono and in full stereo for the episodes "La Strega Bruciata Viva" ("The Witch Scorched Alive") by Luchino Visconti and "Una Sera Come Le Altre" ("A Night Like Any Other") by Vittorio De Sica for the 1967 movie Le Streghe (aka The Witches) produced by Dino de Laurentiis. The film, which was released on February 22, 1967, is divided into five episodes starring the fascinating Diva Silvana Mangano. The Mauro Bolognini and Franco Rossi episodes have virtually no music -- except very brief fragments of atonal strings (possibly library music) in the Rossi episode and just a reprise of the "main theme" written by Piero Piccioni for the Visconti episode at the end of the Bolognini episode. This CD focuses only on the music of Piero Piccioni for this film. The tapes were kept in the private archives of Piccioni and they have been found with the big help of Jason Piccioni, the son of the composer. Two ¼ reel tapes, one in stereo and one in mono, which have been preserved until today in very good conditions. For "The Witch Scorched Alive" Piero Piccioni wrote a refined dancefloor theme, a shake for piano, organ, drums, guitars and brass, which we might call "The Witches Shake", reprised with different instrumentations and which is the background dance of Gloria in the hotel lounge room. This dancefloor music is alternated with a romantic, rarefied, and haunting love theme that, without doubt, is one of the most beautiful love themes of the whole career of Piero Piccioni: a jazzy, slow, suspended, almost sacred theme for harp, vibraphone, guitar, celesta, flute, and bass. The score was brilliantly conducted by Bruno Nicolai and Piero Piccioni himself. Please note also that in this soundtrack and almost in all his soundtracks, Piccioni performs solo piano and organ. CD version includes two bonus tracks, for historical and artistic purposes: the very rare mono version of the shake theme as featured in the opening titles -- with some sound effect found in the mono master tape of the final film music/effects mix -- and a long stereo suite re-recorded by Piccioni.
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LPDM 015LP
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LP version. Digitmovies present Piero Piccioni's complete original soundtrack in mono and in full stereo for the episodes "La Strega Bruciata Viva" ("The Witch Scorched Alive") by Luchino Visconti and "Una Sera Come Le Altre" ("A Night Like Any Other") by Vittorio De Sica for the 1967 movie Le Streghe (aka The Witches) produced by Dino de Laurentiis. The film, which was released on February 22, 1967, is divided into five episodes starring the fascinating Diva Silvana Mangano. The Mauro Bolognini and Franco Rossi episodes have virtually no music -- except very brief fragments of atonal strings (possibly library music) in the Rossi episode and just a reprise of the "main theme" written by Piero Piccioni for the Visconti episode at the end of the Bolognini episode. This CD focuses only on the music of Piero Piccioni for this film. The tapes were kept in the private archives of Piccioni and they have been found with the big help of Jason Piccioni, the son of the composer. Two ¼ reel tapes, one in stereo and one in mono, which have been preserved until today in very good conditions. For "The Witch Scorched Alive" Piero Piccioni wrote a refined dancefloor theme, a shake for piano, organ, drums, guitars and brass, which we might call "The Witches Shake", reprised with different instrumentations and which is the background dance of Gloria in the hotel lounge room. This dancefloor music is alternated with a romantic, rarefied, and haunting love theme that, without doubt, is one of the most beautiful love themes of the whole career of Piero Piccioni: a jazzy, slow, suspended, almost sacred theme for harp, vibraphone, guitar, celesta, flute, and bass. The score was brilliantly conducted by Bruno Nicolai and Piero Piccioni himself. Please note also that in this soundtrack and almost in all his soundtracks, Piccioni performs solo piano and organ. CD version includes two bonus tracks, for historical and artistic purposes: the very rare mono version of the shake theme as featured in the opening titles -- with some sound effect found in the mono master tape of the final film music/effects mix -- and a long stereo suite re-recorded by Piccioni.
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SME 049LP
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Sonor Music Editions present a reissue of Piero Piccioni's Al Cinema Con Piero Piccioni, originally released in 1968. Originally composed of two volumes and released on the famed RCA SP series in 1968, compiled with a curated selection of the best tracks and presented with renewed striking artwork. Two absolutely cult and impossible to find albums of Italian discography released in a unique LP edition and carefully remastered by from the original RCA master tapes. Includes original soundtrack of the films Il Terrorista (1963), Le Mani Sulla Città (1963), Nude, Calde E Pure (1965), La Donna E' Una Cosa Meravigliosa (1964), Chi Lavora E' Perduto (Tinto Brass) (1963), with the huge jazz imprint of maestro Piccioni. 180 gram vinyl. Heavy cardboard sleeve, like the originals; Limited to 300.
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RED 243LP
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Dagored present a reissue of Piero Piccioni's soundtrack for Cadaveri Eccellenti, originally released in 1976. A superb soundtrack composed for Francesco Rosi's film Cadaveri Eccellenti, based on the novel Il Trattato by Leonardo Sciascia. A portrait of Italy during the infamous Years of Lead ("Anni di Piombo"), Cadaveri Eccellenti, presented in 1976 at the Cannes Film Festival, caused an outcry for the inconvenient issues addressed. Jazz and funky tunes are mixed here with a big orchestra-style peculiar of the best compositions by the maestro Piero Piccioni. This album is an enjoyable journey into dark and light atmospheres. This marks the first time the complete version has appeared on vinyl. Edition of 500.
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