Rota, N.: Chamber Music - Nonet / Quintet / Canzona / Piccola Offerta Musicale
7/1/2000, 10 Tracks, 59:58
Featuring
Domenico Losavio
I Solisti Dauni
Nino Rota
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Composer's Artistic Vision
Nino Rota's music for film became a natural outlet for his imagination, where the only limit was the duty of telling the story.
Composer Biography
Nino Rota, the composer, shared the desire of many Italian musicians to move away from the dominance of opera in his early career.
Cultural Impact
Nino Rota's music for film, especially with director Federico Fellini, often became a protagonist in memorable film sequences.
Compositional Technique
Nino Rota's Petite Offrande Musicale, dedicated to his teacher Alfredo Casella, uses the structure of a French overture with a slow introduction and a livelier second section.
Notable Performances
The Nonet was first performed in its complete version by the Solisti dauni, the ensemble on this recording, under the direction of Nino Rota himself.
Composition History
The Nonet, though written in three separate stages between 1959 and 1977, is considered one of Nino Rota's most representative mature works.
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