Veröffentlichung Heristal: IL LEONE DI VETRO (THE LION OF VENICE) (Pericle Odierna)

[Alexander Grodzinski]

 

 

A passionate romantic music through an academic classical settings and jazz

and folk.

 

Notes on the movie:

"When Salvatore Chiosi spoke to me about the movie and the beautiful story I

immediately wondered: how can I serve this film with my music? Being set in

the mid-800 will I write music in a late Romantic style or not? Will the

music will follow syntax and philological or within the grooves of the

images in an abstract way? On the first images there was the solution. I

definitely appeal to the notions acquired during my composition studies on

the romantic music but with the filter through my own personal journey made

of strict classical and academic settings and my other passions such as

jazz, folk music. So the choice of "contaminate" a philological language

apparently with the use of instruments and sounds far away from the

imaginary late romantic. L'erhu, the duduk, the iris flute, instruments

linked to the more traditional and popular Asian, Celtic and Balkan music

seem perfect to me. IT can convey my thoughts. Everything finds its right

place in complete harmony and synergy with the movie's DIrector. The

orchestration goes from one instrument to a chamber orchestra."

Pericle Odierna

 

Synopsis:

This is the emblematic story of a Venetian family at the dawn of the

Unification of Italy. Like every year, Marco and Spartacus Biasin reach

their father Jacob and their grandfather Alvise after harvest and during the

period of winemaking. But this year, we are in 1866, the occasion is one of

those really important. Of course there is always many things to discuss

about, to program the vintage of the wine, the family business, the

relationship with the widow Querini, the last of his branch in this great

and noble family, which each year brings her grapes to make wine by Biasin,

now established at a international level in the production and trade of the

Raboso wine. But there is another problem far more urgent. The town bailiff

had passed a few days before, informing to report to the town hall in the

country for the referendum of 22 October that, in fact, will sanction the

annexation of the Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy.

 

Tracklisting:

01 Il leone di vetro

02 La famiglia Biasin

03 Spartaco e Marco

04 Venezia

05 Alba veneta

06 Ecco il Raboso

07 Echi di guerra

08 Amanti

09 Festa della vendemmia

10 1866

11 Notturno

12 Querini

13 Minuetto

14 L'Italia

15 Addii

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