Nino Rota - Music from "La Strada" & "Il Gattopardo" (Riccardo Muti)

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Composer: Nino Rota

• (01-07) Ballet suite from "La Strada"
• (08-11) Concerto for strings
• (12-18) Dances music from "Il Gattopardo"

Orchestra Filharmonia della Scala
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Date: 1994
Label: Sony Classical

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Giovanni "Nino" Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores. During his long career Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979, and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974). Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nino_Rota

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Riccardo Muti (born 28 July 1941) is an Italian conductor who particularly associated with the music of Giuseppe Verdi. He currently holds two music directorships: the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (since 2010) and the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini. Previously he held posts at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London (1973-1982), the Philadelphia Orchestra (1980-1992), the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (1986-2005) and the Salzburg Whitsun Festival. Muti has been a prolific recording artist and has received dozens of honors, titles, awards and prizes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riccardo_Muti

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