Veröffentlichung Saimel: Renzo Rossellini - Legioni di Cleopatra

[Trekfan]

 

End of June Saimel will release Renzo Rossellini's score for the peplum movie LE LEGIONI DI CLEOPATRA from 1959 for thie first time ever on CD. The CD has a duration of more than 70 minutes and has been only possible thanks to the master tapes in mono which have been preserved in the Sugar Music archives. In fact, this is the first time ever that any original film music by this first-rate and nowadays vastly underrated composer has been made officially available.

Renzo Rossellini was one of the pioneers of Italian film music and is probably best known for his long-time collaboration with his brother Roberto on many neorealist films. But he also scored some peplums of which LEGIONI DI CLEOPATRA was his last one and one of his finest in 1959.

The movie by Vittorio Cottafavi stars Linda Cristal as Cleopatra, Georges Marchal as Antony and Ettore Manni as Roman officer Curridio and deals with the famous romance of Antony and Cleopatra, but this time told from a quite different point of view than usual.

Rossellini's score is simply magnificent: lush, passionate and operatic, but it can also be intimate and delicate with exquisite use of woodwind soli for the romantic night scenes.

I myself am more than happy that this music will now get its world premiere on CD after 55 years.

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[Oliver79]

Schon bizarr, dass es so lange gedauert hat, bis ein Score von dem Mann auf CD erscheint. Schon klar, die Aufnahmen zu seinen berühmtesten Filmen existieren nicht mehr, aber wenn man bedenkt, was es in Italien sonst so auf CD schafft (man denke an den Canfora-Peplum, der vor einiger Zeit bei Digit erschienen ist).