When director Francis Ford Coppola turned novelist Mario Puzo's
pulpy The Godfather into one of the greatest accomplishments of
modern American cinema in 1972, one of his shrewdest decisions was
to hand the scoring assignment to the great Italian film composer
Nino Rota. Rota, who had built his reputation alongside Fellini
(though he'd already scored some three dozen films in the previous
20 years), brought Neopolitan jazz stylings and a Sicilian melodic
sensibilty (characterized perfectly by the main title's mournful
solo trumpet, which has since become a cinematic icon) to a story
of corruption and betrayal as American as, well, gnocchi. Listening
to this masterful score one can't help but wonder what Rota, who
died in 1979) might have accomplished had he begun working with
Hollywood's resources a decade earlier. --Jerry McCulley
General
| Label: |
MCA Music Pub
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 1999 |
| Originally released: |
March 1991 |
| Performers: |
Artists
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| Dimensions: |
125 x 142 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
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| Running time: |
31 minutes |
| Categories: |
Music >
Pop / Rock
Music >
Soundtracks
Promotions
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| LSN: |
X8F-398-S00-3 |
| Barcode: |
0008811023126 |
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