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Mar 5, 2011 - 10:00 PM
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eda-88
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Excelent composer, he feels many different music, styles, he can compose good western score or drama or mafia.... anything.
I loved Donaggio since 90s...i guess after watching TV-series "OCEANO"... in the middle of 90's...
Excelent score, then i knew Donnaggio by many other works, Giovanni Falcone, Un Eroe Borghese, Scoop,
Of course it's another story about his great score for DE Palma movies..almost everything he wrote for De Palma is great work.
Palermo Milano Solo Andata - 95
Milano Palermo il Ritormo -2007
Oorlogswinter
Il Gatto Nero
Cin Cin
The Gamble / La Partita
TV-series : I Misteri Della Giungla Nera
Trauma
Nero Veneziano
Never talk to strangers....
Very good ones.......
In many or almost every his ost, on CD always included the song for his music of main theme...
BUT anyway, i would say one important thing!
My favorite score by Pino, it's UNFORTUNATELY still unreleased score for old giallo by Marcello Aliprandi : UN SUSSURRO NEL BUIO / A WHISPER IN THE DARK (1976).
It's very unusual classic score from the maestro.It has so many music.
Main titles just excellent piano theme..... reprised afterwards in many arrangements (guitar, violin, harmonica, strings, organ...)....
It's unreleased, shame...
Many DOnaggio's works still unreleased:
Il Tesoro Di Damasco
Racket (fabulous theme)
L'Amanti e Segreti 1-2
Rivoglio I Miei Figli
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He wrote many good score for Terence Hill movies, Don Camillo, Don Matteo......
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Only Jerry Goldsmith's music has brought more joy to my ears! Pino Donaggio's score for DRESSED TO KILL, is my favorite from any motion picture. His music moves me in a way no other has. When I saw CARRIE at a "sneak-peak" on Halloween 1976, I instantly fell in love with its score. I've been more than a fan, ever since.
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Mar 5, 2011 - 10:47 PM
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Ryan Clark
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Great thread. Pino is my favorite composer. I wouldn't buy EVERYthing he's ever done simply because some of his scores are not that good, but he's done a lot of masterpieces. My favorites are Carrie, Blow Out, Dressed to Kill, and Don't Look Now. I'm also very fond of The Howling, Body Double, Raising Cain, Home Movies, Piranha, and Tourist Trap.
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As for favorites, I have to go with BODY DOUBLE, and I swear, thanks to the blokes
at Intrada, I damn near tear up every time I go to the shelf and see their beautiful,
perfect issue of this score on CD at last. I'm still floored that this didn't/doesn't get more pub - it's
a film score geeks' dream, long sequences with no dialogue and just score - and not
just wallpaper, but well done, melodic stuff at that??? So great to have this at last
on disc, without having to run the movie, or my 'taped off the TV' cassette anymore -
AND, having the musician list......wonderful! Horns only, no other brass! Fantastic!
Love all of this sorely underrated composer's work- when I was damn near a toddler
I was in love with his score for THE HOWLING, and sought the LP for what seemed like
years, but actually found it after only 2 or so years of pursuit. His mix of romance and
menace is unparalleled in cinema, and like some of his other Italian breathen, he can
really graft those big 'cantabile' operatic melodies into bland suspense films, foreign
and domestic (Colpo di Coda and Raising Cain, I'm looking at you!). It makes me tear
up that FINALLY others are giving this fine composer some pub at last. Love the story,
probably BS, about the producer on DONT LOOK NOW, who spotted the maestro on
a gondola in Venice at the time of filming, and had a 'mystical vision' he should score
that film.....and the rest is history!
I wish I had some totally unheard of obscure score I could recommend that hasn't really been
mentioned in other threads, that no one knows about ,but....wait..I do!
It's IL GRANDE TORINO from RaiTrade in 2005. Ugly cover, who cares or knows what the
hell the movie is, BUT - it's a gorgeous, nostalgic, lovely and melodic piece with occasional
jazzy interjections. It's like the second stepchild to ZELLY AND ME, and if you like that one,
give TORINO a shot, it's a real hidden gem. I play this one endlessly, because the melodies are so strong, they stay with you, and remind me of oldie scores that would do that......
Another one that comes to mind, same type of case (ugly covers, who cares about the film, if you can figure out what it is anyway), is UN EROE BORGESE (sic?). The album is bookended with
ok suspense tracks, but the body of the work is all lovely, italiano nostalgia and melody,
really lovely stuff for a film that looks to be about two old dudes pouring over paperwork - enthralling stuff fer sure!!!  The record is just lovely, autumnal music, really heartfelt and VERY italian - no fake schmaltz on display here......
I think some of the prob with Donaggio's recent
work is, who knows what these movies are, who cares for the most part, and you are
never sure if you're getting some pop nonsense (which I still love, sorry!) or a strong
orchestral work (Torino).
Have fun dudes discovering the wonderful world of Pino! He's written some really terrific
stuff that will make you quite happy upon discovery!
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Mar 6, 2011 - 1:43 AM
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eda-88
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Great post GoblinScore, i feel that we've been already talking maybe long time ago on some other boards...
if you the same GoblinScore as was there...
In A WHISPER IN THE DARK, also many Venetian scenes and especially music !!
>>I wish I had some totally unheard of obscure score I could recommend that hasn't really been
mentioned in other threads, that no one knows about ,but....wait..I do!
Exactly, because almost every members always mention the same works, mostly from De palma movies, none of italian movie Ost..
IL GRANDE TORINO - i have heard year ago and forgot, i should listen again to it and remember!
UN EROE BORGESE - great one, very sad and at the same time nostalgic, romantic, lovely piece... like some great tracks in OCEANO, etc...
Oh... i just played GRANDE TORINO again on my playlist and it sounds great, very good orchestration work!!!
The one i heard recently was also : L'uomo che cavalcava nel buio , available on DIGITMOVIES CD....
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eda 88 - mentioning the De Palma film scores isn't because we haven't heard the others (I'm pretty sure there isn't a Donaggio score I haven't heard), it's because we prefer the De Palma scores. Another great score I think no one has mentioned, is TCHIN-TCHIN or THAT'S LIFE. I love them all.
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Couldn't agree more about BODY DOUBLE! Lordy. That one was on my Grail List for so long. To finally have that hypnotic, sexy music..... All of that early work with DePalma is great.
But if I could only have one, it's BODY DOUBLE.
---- Mark
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Mar 6, 2011 - 10:52 PM
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eda-88
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GoblinScore,
Thanks,
I wish you to hear more some my great latest posts, as i always mentioned here about UN SUSSURRO NEL BUIO/ A WHISPER IN THE DARK (76) - Giallo awesome score, i've extracted all the tracks from DVD and made bootleg, i always enjoy listening to it....
If you or everyone else who interested email me: arhbclan@gmail.com ,i would like to send you the link, because there is no other way to hear the excellent score...Especially MAIN TITLES!
Love SARDE works, i'm newbie here, mostly i was just reader and never thinking about to register and write myself, i fixed it and i'll find many Sarde posts and read interesting posts from the members here!!!
PhiladelphiaSon,
I have mentioned CIN CIN on my first message, it's very romantic tune & song too.
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Well, it's thanks to Donaggio that I got interested in film music, all those years ago.
While watching CARRIE, I ended up paying more attention to the music than the film!!
Not that the film is below-par...FAR FROM IT!!
But the music conveys so much of the tragedy and sadness of the character, that I think it's the equal of Spacek's stunning performance and DePalma's stylish direction.
The fact it also made an equally marvelous listening experience on it's own was just the icing on the cake.
I started to seek out other Donaggio scores after that, including the other DePalma scores and the old Varese and Milan LP's, some of which still need a good CD release. I'm thinking TOURIST TRAP, DON CAMILLO and JENATSCH here.
Like someone said above, I've gambled on a few LP's and discs that have left me cold and hardly played twice, but in the main, the fact that his style is so unique and unmistakeable usually offers up something of interest if you dig it!
Great post  and I've really been enjoying the big interest revival around here of late for THE MASTERS' MUSIC!!
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