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Notes on Soundtrack: I PROMESSI SPOSI (1989) (Part 1)
450-minute TV mini-series
link Based on the three-volume historical novel 'I promessi sposi' (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni.
link Director: Salvatore Nocita (1934-)
linkFirst aired on Sunday 12 November 1989 at 8:30 pm on RAI 1. – 5 episodes of 90 minutes each. – Musica composta, strumentata e diretta da Ennio Morricone. (Radiocorriere 1989, #46, page 104)
jpg Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor: Ennio Morricone – Opening credits:
jpg Orchestra Sinfonica della Radiotelevisione Italiana (aka 'Orchestra della RAI di Roma')
Coro di Roma della Radiotelevisione Italiana (aka 'Coro della RAI di Roma') – Maestro del coro: Fulvio Angius
Viola solista: Fausto Anselmo (also written as Anzelmo)
Flauto dolce solista: Marianne Eckstein
Closing credits:
jpgTrumpet: Nello Salza (1963-) (Maestro #5, page 30)
3:18 – 01 – I promessi sposi [the betrothed] – Play:
mp3 3:14 – 02 – La monaca di Monza [the nun of Monza]
3:08 – 03 – Fra' [frate] Cristoforo e il pane del perdono [friar Cristoforo and the bread of forgiveness]
4:01 – 04 – Gertrude – Play:
mp3 2:44 – 05 – L'azzeccagarbugli [the shyster]
2:19 – 06 – I lanzichenecchi [the mercenaries]
5:37 – 07 – La rivolta del pane [the bread riot]
3:08 – 08 – Violenza e saccheggio [violence and looting]
3:36 – 09 – Addio monti [goodbye mountains]
1:28 – 10 – Fuga di Renzo [Renzo's escape]
3:05 – 11 – La monaca di Monza
1:02 – 12 – Lovati [the mercenary Lovati] – Play:
mp3 3:01 – 13 – La notte dell'Innominato [night of the Unnamed]
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Notes on Soundtrack: I PROMESSI SPOSI (1989) (Part 2)
2:15 – 14 – Arrivo dei lanzi [arrival of the mercenaries]
2:28 – 15 – A Lucia [to Lucia]
3:49 – 16 – Don Abbondio
4:46 – 17 – La peste [the plague]
1:26 – 18 – Finale – Play:
mp3 Released on LP and CD:
LP: I promessi sposi – Fonit Cetra LPX 245 – Italy – 1989
linkA-side label:
jpg B-side label:
jpg CD: I promessi sposi – Fonit Cetra CDL 245 – Italy – 1989
link Front:
jpgBack:
jpg18 tracks – Total time: 54:25 – Track 9 in poor stereo. – All other tracks in stereo.
Although not complete, the 1989 album was never expanded.
In 1995/96 two additional pieces linked to I PROMESSI SPOSI were released.
5:38 – 1 (1a) – Pezzo sacro 1 (first released as 'Requiem', track 13 on the 1995 'Pasolini, Un delitto italiano' CD).
jpg 6:43 – 2 (1b) – Pezzo sacro 2
Released on CD:
Percorsi – New Sounds NANS 062X – Italy – 1996
link – About the 'Percorsi' CD:
link The CD booklet says the two 'Pezzi sacri' [sacred pieces] were "composed and recorded for I PROMESSI SPOSI (1989), but not released".
The tracks on the 'Percorsi' album, however, do not seem to be the original recordings.
For I PROMESSI SPOSI the 'Orchestra della RAI di Roma' was used, whereas the two 'Pezzi sacri' were played by the 'Orchestra dell'AMIT (Academia Musicale Italiana)'. No recording date mentioned on back card.
jpgThe booklet confusingly mentions that the pieces were first performed in 1990 in Budapest, with yet another (a third) orchestra.
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