The Postman
The Postman is a 1994 film directed by Michael Radford and Massimo Troisi, inspired by the novel “Ardiente paciencia” by Antonio Skarmeta. Set on an island in southern Italy, it…
Concerto Grosso per i New Trolls
In 1971 one of the greatest recordings of the progressive scene in Italy and beyond, was released: “Concerto Grosso per i New Trolls”. In this record the Genoese musicians, together…
City of Women
Marcello Snàporaz is a mature and imprudent man who, during a train ride, has a brief fling with a mysterious lady, and then he decides to follow her, getting off…
Misa Tango
Misa Tango is a musical piece like none previously written. Conceived by Luis Bacalov, the work is based on the ordinary Latin of the Catholic mass, but it is written…
The Gospel According to Matthew
“My reading of the Gospel could only be the reading of a Marxist, but at the same time the fascination of the irrational, of the divine, which dominates the whole…
Estaba la Madre
Estaba la Madre, the first version of which was commissioned in 2004 by Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, is a secular “Stabat Mater”, which through four stories traces the pain and…
We Still Kill the Old Way
Based on the novel of the same name by Leonardo Sciascia is this film of reflection on the Sicilian condition and on the protagonist’s inability to penetrate a castle of…
The Truce
The truce, last film directed by Francesco Rosi, is adapted from the 1963 novel of the same name (winner of the Campiello prize) by Primo Levi. January 7, 1945. Nazi…
Tango e dintorni
This record is the story of a journey, or better, of a return: that of a great composer like Luis Bacalov, in his own land and home, which is also…
Django
In a village on the border of Mexico where two gangs are raging, led respectively by the American major Jack Winchester and by the Mexican general Hugo Rodriguez, a gunfighter,…
Ci Vuole un Fiore
This venture started when Sergio Endrigo, not happy with the little children’s songs played on TV, decided to write to Gianni Rodari, whose “Grammar of Fantasy” he had greatly appreciated.…
Children of the Century
George Sand and Alfred de Musset met when they were both already established writers of mature age, convinced of the non-existence of the great love that turns life upside down.…
Lontano dagli Occhi
Lontano dagli occhi was the song composed by the Istrian singer-songwriter and presented in competition at the Sanremo Festival of 1969 by Sergio Endrigo paired with Mary Hopkin, the English singer…
Una Storia Semplice
Based on the novel of the same name by Leonardo Sciascia. The film by Emidio Greco is mastered by Gian Maria Volontè’s intense interpretation of professor Franzò, the omnipresent “witness”…
Sabato Pomeriggio
“Sabato pomeriggio”, one of the cornerstones of Italian pop music, was released in the summer of 1975, immediately becoming a hit and being the best-selling single of that year. The…
La Noia
La Noia is a 1963 film, directed by Damiano Damiani and based on the novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia. Dino, a painter for pleasure, has not painted…
Hotel Meina
«This film represents for me a return to history, which has always been one of the two strands of my cinema together with current events. In addition to the historical…
Borges Cuenta Que
Borges cuenta que is an opera-ballet in which the tango element reigns supreme. It tells of a cruel story of love and death of a poor girl whose father is…
La Casa
La casa is a song composed by Vinícius de Moraes with Italian lyrics by Sergio Bardotti, interpreted by Sergio Endrigo and published in the album La vita, amico, è l’arte…
Fatti Mandare dalla Mamma a Prendere il Latte
“Fifty years ago, in 1963, in these days, I was preparing to record what would become the smash hit of my life: Fatti mandare dalla mamma a prendere il latte”.…
Caravaggio
Lights and shadows of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, born in Lombardy at the end of the sixteenth century and moved to Rome for love of art. Affected by a proud…
Panni Sporchi
The Razzi family from Marche has a company that produces digestive sweets based on chicory, the so-called ‘cialda’. At the head of the company is Furio, Cinzia Razzi’s husband, but…
I Musicanti
I Musicanti is an album by the vocal group Ricchi e Poveri, published in 1976. With the songs entitled I-o bao coccodè miao and Il mio canto, included in the…
Che m’Importa del Mondo
The “Pel di Carota” of the Italian song is still at the top of the charts in 1964 with “Che m’importa del mondo”, which goes crazy at no.1. As it…
Piano Concerto
Bacalov describes his Concerto for piano and orchestra as follows: “This work, like some others composed by me, attempts to explore the potential of popular urban music that is commonly…
The Grand Duel
Clayton, former sheriff of Jefferson, saves young Philip from the siege of some bounty killers. Philip had managed to escape and take refuge in the mountains after being wrongly accused…
Inferno Below
Belgium, 1956: in one of the most serious mining disasters of all time, one hundred and thirty-six Italian emigrants lose their lives. This two-part miniseries recalls all the stages of…
Il Cielo
Il cielo is a song from 1967 with which he participated in the Festival of Roses, again winning the critics’ prize. The then Roman Festival was held at the Hilton…
La Fisarmonica
It is one of Gianni Morandi’s love songs, perhaps one of the most remembered. It was a great success thanks to the choice of the instrument, rather unusual. Of this…
A Bullet for the General
“Christ died between two bandits!” yells Klaus Kinski to a priest, before killing him. The landowner, about to be executed by the peons, asks: “Is it because I’m rich?”; they…
Elsa & Fred
Elsa is a fun-loving pensioner who falls in love with a widower of a very traditionalist and reserved character, who has just moved into his building. Fred, in fact, after…
Roma Bene
Around the living room of the Duchess Silvia Santi, wife of the industrialist Giorgio, revolve some of the most prominent characters of the aristocracy, finance, politics and clergy of the…
La Mia Gente – 70 Persone – Il Duomo di Milano. From the LP “La mia Gente”
Jannacci’s loves, blossomed among the commuters who commuted between the Milanese suburbs and the factories of the economic miracle, all have a sad epilogue; or if they have a happy…
Se non avessi più te – I Ragazzi dello Shake
“Se non avessi più te” is still one of the most beautiful songs of the singer from Monghidoro, perhaps because it is less “inflated” than others. The magnificent trio “Migliacci-Zambrini-Bacalov”…
Quando Ero Piccola
It is part of the soundtrack of the film by Emilio P. Miraglia “A qualsiasi prezzo” (Vatican Story), and was recorded between October 1 and 2, 1968. Mina presents the…
Caliber 9
Di Leo weaves an impeccable story of anti-heroes, kairos and kronos, in which the perfect time of revenge succumbs to the inexorable time of destiny: from the formidable initial sequence…
The Love Letter
Loblolly by the Sea, a quiet town in New England. In the bookstore that manages, Helen MacFarquar sees herself delivered a letter. She opens it: it is a passionate love…
His Name Was King
John Morley, known as King, a well-known bounty hunter, cooperates with Inspector Gordon and Major Harrington to shed light on the arms trafficking that takes place on the border between…
L’arca di Noè – Dall’America
In this piece of the early seventies, Sergio Endrigo, renewing the best lyrical tradition of the troubadours of Provence, faces with compositional ability and freshness of inspiration a central theme…
Memories
Every time I am asked to write or to talk about Maestro Bacalov my mind is crowded by a myriad of memories, emotions and experiences all lived in the space…
Questo Nostro Amore
With this song the “Pel di Carota” of the Italian song, as she was called because of her freckles and red hair, participated in the edition of the Cantagiro of…
Stateline Motel
Just released from a Canadian prison where he served six months for a carjacking, young Floyd Gambino partners with elderly Joe in robbing a jewelry store. The heist succeeds but…
Contaminazione
The Italian prog of the seventies is still admired and loved all over the world. A sign that in our country we have always known how to make music of…
The Roses of Danzig
In 1919, while Germany is crossed by “squads” financed by the aristocrats to prevent the proletarian uprisings, Baron Erich Lehner casually meets General Konrad Von der Berg who kidnaps him…
Ho Chiuso le Finestre
Gianni Morandi
Il Giocattolo
From the soundtrack of the film “Chimera”, directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti. Produced by Franco Migliacci, with “Il giocattolo” (The Toy) Gianni Morandi once again reached the top of the…
Il Capello
Together with Antonello Venditti, Nico Fidenco, Gianni Meccia and Jimmy Fontana, Edoardo Vianello can be considered an exponent of a “Roman School” of songwriters, which was headed by Vincenzo Micocci’s…
The Sky Is Falling
Tuscany, summer 1944. Having lost their parents in a car accident, little sisters Penny and Baby are taken to their aunt and uncle, who live in a large house in…
Per Amore per Magia
Aladdin is in love with the daughter of the Grand Duke of Forilarì, the pretty princess Esmeralda, whom the perfidious Viscount of Pallerineri would like to marry in order to…
Canzone Per Te
Presented at Sanremo in 1968 in the interpretation of Sergio Endrigo himself and in that of Roberto Carlos, the piece won making the Friulian singer-songwriter known to the general public.…
Cuore – Il Ballo del Mattone
Mio cuore tu stai soffrendo… A song that marked the youth, but also the childhood, of all Italians capable of listening to music: in 1963 Rita Pavore with Cuore exterminates…
Che vuoi che sia… se t’ho aspettato tanto
“Che vuoi che sia… se t’ho aspettato tanto” is Mia Martini’s seventh studio album released on 1976. After the positive results obtained with “Piccolo uomo” and “Minuetto”, the artist of…
Il Consiglio d’Egitto
Transposing a literary work into cinema is not an easy task. And rarely does the film succeed in thrilling us at least as much as the book does. But this…
Assassination Tango
John J. Anderson, an exponent of the New York underworld now on the road to decline, is hired to carry out a murder. The designated victim is an old general…
Summertime Killer
Roy Castor, who as a child witnessed the murder of his father by three individuals in a mafia settling of scores, decides to take revenge. A first bandit is eliminated…
Come un Pierrot
Patty Pravo
Io Che Amo Solo Te – Vecchia Balera
Io che amo solo te is a song written by singer-songwriter Sergio Endrigo. It was released as side A on the 45 rpm Io che amo solo te/Vecchia balera in…
Saltimbanchi – Sudamerica – Ecco Tutto Qui. From the LP “Foto Ricordo”
Forty years have passed since the publication of one of Enzo Jannacci’s most interesting record projects, entitled “Foto Ricordo”, his tenth studio work. After a few years of stalemate, the…
Legata a un Granello di Sabbia – Ridi Ridi
Legata a un granello di sabbia (Tied to a grain of sand) was rejected by the selection committee of Sanremo festival in 1961 because it was considered unsuitable for the…
Meglio il Madison
Gianni Morandi
The Price of Power
At the end of the War of Secession, the President of the United States, Garfield, takes it upon himself to resolve all the problems that gave rise to the conflict…
Cuori Solitari
Stefano and Giovanna represent a typical upper middle class couple of Northern Italy at the time, bored after eight years of marriage. Franco Giraldi immediately puts the cards on the…
Tu Non Sei Madame Curie – Queste Parole Son Mandorle Amare
Frome the sondtrack of the movie “Let’s Talk About Men” (Questa Volta Parliamo di Uomini) of Lina Wertmüller Genre: Pop
Ballata Per un Matto
“He was a great guy, full of vitality, of joy, of ideas, he had a kind of crazy electric charge. He was not a conventional singer… He was the first…
Solo Tu
Rita Pavone’s single that confirmed the success achieved in previous years. On the “A” side there was “Stasera con te” (Tonight with you), theme song of the TV show “Stasera…
La Nostra Casa
Gino Paoli
Nuove Canzoni d’Amore
Nuove Canzoni d’Amore is an album by Italian singer-songwriter Sergio Endrigo, released by Fonit Cetra in November 1971. The arrangements are by Luis Bacalov who conducts the orchestra. Source Genre:…
Anni Ribelli
In the Buenos Aires of 1955, when Peron fell, the adolescent Laura tries to escape the suffocating embrace of her Sicilian family and the tyranny of her hateful father-master through…
Hidden Moon
Miranda (Ana Serradilla), a mysterious and beautiful woman breaks into the funeral service of a powerful Southern California man, disrupting the tranquility of the deceased’s family. Victor (WesBentley), the man’s…
Sono Sempre Qui
Claudio Villa
L’Ultimo Appuntamento
Miranda Martino
Il Pappagallo – San Francesco
Sergio Endrigo
Un Ricordo Per Te
Paul Anka
Let’s Talk About Men
A comedy in four episodes about the male universe, as seen by Lina Wertmüller, In the first episode, “A Man of Honour”, an industrialist in financial crisis urges his wife…
It Can Be Done Amigo
Coburn is a big man who lives by his wits. During his wanderings, he finds himself witnessing the death of old Anderson who, before taking his last breath, entrusts him…
Hard Time for Princes
The Roman prince Giuliano Niccolini-Borgia, a young and shrewd play-boy, fascinated by the beautiful foreigner Jane decides to accompany her to Switzerland in his car with a diplomatic plate. In…
Roberta
In the early sixties, Peppino Di Capri lives his period of greatest commercial success, which sees virtually all of his 45 rpm records in the charts one after the other,…
Notte di Ferragosto
At that time, Gianni Morandi was already well established, and he certainly did not need to be present at the Cantagiro to be popular. Instead, he presented himself at the…
Preludio, Tema, Variazioni e Canzona
In the seventies Luis Bacalov had increasingly developed an interest in contaminating his musical art, with grafts from that Italian avant-garde music that was winning acclaim and characterizing the years…
Violin Concerto
Editions: Eleutheria Edizioni Musicali
Triplo Concerto
Editior: RAI.com
L’Aîné des Ferchaux
Ferchaux, a rich and powerful businessman, is about to sign a huge contract to build a dam in Africa when he becomes the target of an investigating judge convinced of…
B. Monkey
In London today. Alan is an elementary school teacher by day, a DJ in a hospital by night. Beatrice, arrived from Italy and nicknamed B. Monkey, robs jewelry stores with…
La Partita di Pallone – Amore Twist
La Partita di Pallone Famous song by Rita Pavone signed Rossi-Vianello, and which the authors had been keeping warm for some time waiting for a female voice that could make…
La Valigia Blu
Come un Pierrot/La valigia blu is the 19th 45 rpm of Patty Pravo, published in 1974 by the record company RCA. The single was quite successful, reached the eighth position…
Quando Sorridi Così – Adesso No
Neil Sedaka
Libero
2nd place at the Sanremo Festival 1960 There’s no two without three, predicted the newspapers on the eve of Sanremo 1960. After the victories of ‘Nel blu dipinto di blu’…
Anche Tu
Ricchi e Poveri
And Quiet Flows the Don
Based on a novel by Nobel laureate Mikhail Sholokhov, this nearly six-hour epic traces the lives of Don Cossacks in a village in southern Russia between 1912 and 1922. The…
Ghosts, Italian Style
In this free cinematic transposition of the comedy of the same name by Eduardo De Filippo, the story is told of a poor choirboy who, camped out in a Neapolitan…
La Frontiera
A young officer of the Austro-Hungarian army, Emidio Orlich, of Dalmatian origin, decides in the winter of 1916 to desert in order to be transferred to Italy and fight with…
Il Postino Suite
Suite for orchestra, Orchestration by Luis Bacalov Suite for orchestra, Orchestration by di W. Ross Edition: Sugarmusic
Orchestral Suite “La Città delle Donne”
Suite from “La Città dele Donne” Orchestration W. Ross Edition: Sugarmusic
Orchestral Suite “La Città delle Donne”
Orchestral Suite “La Città dele Donne” Orchestration W. Ross Edition: Sugarmusic
Basta Così – Via Broletto 34
Sergio Endrigo
Latin American`s Classic Music
Genere: classical Julian Aguirre Jorge Berroa Juan José Castro, Alberto Ginastera, Claudio Santoro, Guillermo Uribe Holguin
Sincretic 1
About titles and more. Puente a 6/8 is a bet on the possibilities of amalgamation of some musical forms from Latin America and Africa. These musics are very rich in…
La Meravigliosa Avventura di Carlos Gardel
A passionate and poignant tribute to the great Argentine composer-singer, a true icon of tango throughout Latin America. The composer-pianist-director Luis Bacalov has included in this project many of the…
The Designated Victim
Stefano, a Milanese advertising of Venezuelan origins, is on bad terms with his wife Luisa. One day, on a trip to Venice with his mistress Fabiane, he meets a mysterious…