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THE TAMING OF THE SHREW - Nino Rota
"The Taming Of The Shrew" aka "La Bisbetica Domata" by Nino Rota.
Which one?
The CD album by DRG Records (conducted by Carlo Savina) or Screen Trax or both?
What is the difference?
Thanks in advance!
serifiot, August 25, 2008; 9:40 AM
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The DRG disc looks to be a reissue of the RCA LP which is mostly dialogue.
The Screen Trax disc is listed as being the orchestral score.
victoravalentine, August 25, 2008; 12:20 PM

The DRG has very little dialogue. It's definitely NOT the LP arrangement. Beautiful orchestral score.
chansteele, August 25, 2008; 6:43 PM

I listened to the DGR a few times over. Indeed it is a beautiful and distinctive orchestral score. I received it today among some other soundtracks. According to DRG Records, this is conducted by Carlo Savina and it is the complete music score.
Actually, there is no dialogue whatsoever on the DRG but a few unintrusive singing tracks which blend in fine with the rest of the score. There is even a lovely choir piece. The DRG sound quality is good as well. I think it's in mono.
As far as the Screen Trax release which is not cheap and which I don't have yet, I was hoping from people who might have acquired both to compare and note any differences, if any. Is there more music? Is the sound quality good? etc.
This is a transcribed description of the Screen Trax release...
"Exactly 30 years after the first theatrical release of the Zeffirelli's materpiece starring Liz Taylor as the Shrew and Richard Burton as Petrucchio, the original soundtrack from THE TAMING OF THE SHREW comes at last to light in its completeness and outstanding beauty: 50 minutes of magnificent melodic music without any dialogue or spoken line. The CD has been put in sequence following the instructions Rota himself had written thinking of the possible issue of a record containing the score he had composed; but, as many aficionados know, the planned LP was cancelled and RCA Victor of America released a record featuring mainly dialogue highlights from the movie and just few bars of the actual musical score. Thirty years later, when everybody thought the recorded music had been lost forever, some third generation copies of the original soundtrack tapes have been located and then restored and improved as far as it was possible: though the sound quality is not comparable to today's high standard, the historical value of the discovery and the glorious beauty of the music by Nino Rota make this CD a real must for any collector."
As a lost note, I also came upon another release that is not listed in SC's database. This is a Japanese edition released in 2007 from label V2. Personally, I never heard of this label. It has 19 tracks.
http://tinyurl.com/5v5ofu
Cheers!
serifiot, August 25, 2008; 8:50 PM

Sounds good. To look at the cover of the DRG disc, a person would assume it to be a reissue of the RCA LP as the two covers are identical. Same goes with the expanded release of "Taxi Driver". The CD reissue of the old Arista LP with edited dialogue and just a bit of the Bernard Herrmann score is worthless. The expanded release from about ten years ago is exceptional. The two covers are identical and easily confused when offered on the internet.
Speaking of Nino Rota, I just purchased the DRG disc of "Shoot loud... louder..." a week or so ago.
victoravalentine, August 25, 2008; 9:17 PM

Never heard of this knives. I might consider it later on. Jazzy?
BTW, the recent Japanese release I was referring to is by Verita Note (VQCD-10038) and contains 21 tracks not 19 as wrongly listed in another website.
Supposedly it contains EXCLUSIVE bonus tracks.
???
Perhaps... too exclusive!
;-)
PS
I forgot... it's available at Chris' Soundtrack Corner for the interested parties.
serifiot, August 25, 2008; 10:10 PM

Hello Serifiot,
The expanded Japan edition is also avaliable at SAE and I was told it also contains dialogue like the DRG cd.
Best Regards,
David
deg63iami, August 25, 2008; 11:37 PM

Thanks for the tip David!
It's cheaper too.
Just to make one thing clear though, the 20 track DRG release has no dialogue like "Equus" does for example. As I mentioned before, it has a few singing tracks.
serifiot, August 26, 2008; 6:00 AM

(serifiot) I haven't had a chance to listen to the entire disc of "Shoot loud... louder...", only a couple of tracks. I don't believe it's a jazzy score like some of the Fellini stuff from Rota although according to the liner notes, a theme from "La Dolce Vita" was reworked for the film. It's a previously unreleased score from 1966. I look forward to giving it a spin at the right time.
Of the scores I've listened to over the years, I'd say my favorite from Nino Rota would be "8 1/2".
Have you heard, "Amacord Nino Rota"? A recording of music from the Fellini films performed by a number of musicians influenced by his music. David Amram, Carla Bley and others. It's a good quality recording.
victoravalentine, August 26, 2008; 12:16 PM

If you like Rota and jazz, I would recommend you to give a listen to these releases by CAM:
Enrico Pieranunzi - Fellini Jazz
Tomaso / Rava Quartet - La Dolce Vita
and also
Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron - Play Morricone
Reworking classic film scores is very popular among italian jazz musicians. And the results are
mostly excellent.
coma, August 26, 2008; 3:33 PM

(coma) I see you've mentioned the Enrico Rava disc on Cam. I've been meaning to buy a copy of that. I've enjoyed the music of Enrico Rava for quite awhile. I have a copy of the old ESP label LP, "The Forest And The Zoo" (Steve Lacy), which is the first recording Enrico performed on back in 1966.
A great composer and trumpet player.
victoravalentine, August 26, 2008; 6:29 PM

Guys... thanks for the jazz recommendations! Jazzy type scores are amongst my favorite.
serifiot, August 26, 2008; 10:11 PM

Well I hope "Crime In the Streets" (Franz Waxman) is released on CD some day. As far as jazz film scores go, it's the absolute best.
victoravalentine, August 27, 2008; 2:17 PM

You don't want the Screen Trax release. The sound is horrible. I am enthusiastic about the score, the DRG disc is terrific, the Screen Trax makes the soundtrack sound exceptionally ordinary which is quite an achievement.
dwayne2003, February 22, 2009; 7:22 AM

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