
What’s right about this 1976 live recording of Nino Rota’s most popular opera? First, the music itself. Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (The Florentine
It’s great to see the music of Nino Rota getting so much attention. He was a wonderful composer, and the ballet suite from La strada
Nino Rota’s concert music continues to benefit from the attention of independent labels such as Chandos and BIS. This latest disc offers some wonderful discoveries,
Well, there’s certainly more than one fine orchestra in Montreal! All of this music was recently issued by Chandos, and very well done too, but
As the classical music “crisis” continues, odd coincidences of duplicate releases of rare repertoire continue to happen, including this lovely new recording containing yet another
The idiom on display here stands squarely in the neo-classical tradition, a sort of Italianate Poulenc or Kurt Weill (from the period of the Second
One of Nino Rota’s 80-odd film scores, that for Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, almost certainly is his best known work in any genre. Rota
Nino Rota (1911-79) will probably always be known as the composer of music to The Godfather (1971) and to the earlier Italian film masterpiece, La
The CD booklet for this release refers to Nino Rota as an “old-fashioned composer” and one who had the “courage to go his own way
Almost exclusively associated with Federico Fellini’s films, to which he contributed a dozen deliciously ironic soundtracks, Nino Rota (1911-1979) also composed many concert works that