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FA6410 Prima della rivoluzione / Before the Revolution
Auther: Jonathan Broxton

ENNIO MORRICONE REVIEWS, Part 3-34

PRIMA DELLA RIVOLUZIONE (1964)

Prima Della Rivoluzione – Before the Revolution – is an Italian neo-realist romantic drama film, directed by the great Bernardo Bertolucci in what was one of his first theatrical films. It stars Adriana Asti and Francesco Barilli as two young lovers, Gina and Fabrizio, and charts the course of their relationship against the political and social upheaval that gripped much of Europe at the time. It explores themes of civil rights, socialist political ideologies, and religion, and is strongly inspired by the French New Wave cinema of directors like Jean-Luc Godard）and François Truffaut.

The score for Prima Della Rivoluzione is subdued and introspective and quite serious, and is built around layered banks of strings which often play against each other in unusual ways. The title track, “Prima Della Rivoluzione,” is highly classical in nature, and just gorgeous. Meanwhile, the romance between Gina and Fabrizio is captured by some lovely, elegant writing for strings and woodwinds in “E Dopo,” and this style of writing continues on into later cues such as “Sognare O Non Sognare,” where the woodwinds are paired with florid acoustic guitars.

“Vivere O Non Vivere” gives the woodwinds a renaissance lilt via the inclusion of a harpsichord, and this continues in into the elaborate and gilded “Tu Vedrai,” which juxtaposes the lyrical strings of the main theme against Bach-like keyboards, and becomes quite breathlessly beautiful as it develops over almost eight minutes.

The score for Prima Della Rivoluzione has been released several times over the years; by RCA Records in combination with the score for Un Uomo a Metà in 1997, and as a 300-copy limited edition by GDM Music in combination with the score for I Basilichi in 2014. The title theme has also been included on several Morricone compilations over the years

Track Listing: 1. Prima Della Rivoluzione (1:46), 2. E Dopo? (2:29), 3. Vivere O Non Vivere (3:41), 4. Tu Vedrai (7:57), 5. Sognare O Non Sognare (5:46). GDM Music 4333, 21 minutes 34 seconds.
July 9, 2020
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Prima della rivoluzione (01:42)
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... E dopo (02:25)
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Vivere o non vivere (03:27)
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Sognare o non sognare (05:43)
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Tu vedrai (07:53)
Attachment: About Jonathan Broxton
Jon is a film music critic and journalist, who since 1997 has been the editor and chief reviewer for Movie Music UK, one of the world’s most popular English-language film music websites, and is the president of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA). Over the last 20+ years Jon has written over 3,000 reviews and articles and conducted numerous composer interviews. In print, Jon has written reviews and articles for publications such as Film Score Monthly, Soundtrack Magazine and Music from the Movies, and has written liner notes for two of Prometheus Records’ classic Basil Poledouris score releases, “Amanda” and “Flyers/Fire on the Mountain”. He also contributed a chapter to Tom Hoover’s book “Soundtrack Nation: Interviews with Today’s Top Professionals in Film, Videogame, and Television Scoring”, published in 2011. In the late 1990s Jon was a film music consultant to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and worked with them on the films “Relative Values” with music by John Debney, and “The Ring of the Buddha” with music by Oliver Heise, as well as on a series of concerts with Randy Newman. In 2012, Jon chaired one of the “festival academies” at the 5th Annual Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland. He is a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the premier nonprofit organization for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working motion pictures, television, and multimedia. (Here)
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