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Would "La Regenta" be possible? His final score, according to his IMDb credits.
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This is the first time that I have mentioned the November '61 recording. This is also a score of which no track has ever been released on EP, LP or CD before. So this will be a real world premiere on CD. The November '61 title is in mono, the July '61 title however is in stereo.
I don't think that Alhambra will release anything by Savina. The Savina estate in fact is the terrain of the few Italian labels and of Quartet. Also Alhambra dosen't have access to the CAM archive. Besides, there are already so many labels which want to release stuff from that CAM catalogue.
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Would "La Regenta" be possible? His final score, according to his IMDb credits.
This would rather be a title for one of the Spanish CD labels if they can do it as this is a purely Spanish film.
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But the chronological order of the next three Lavagnino releases on Alhambra will be this one:
1) MACISTE CONTRO IL VAMPIRO (March 2016)
2) Score recorded in November 1961
3) Score recorded in July 1961
Number 2 will probably follow about 2-3 months after the MACISTE CD as the transfer of this score has also already been finished and the tracklisting has also already been made. At the moment the mastering is done.
Hi, Stefan.
Simply curious if Maciste Contro il Vampiro will materialize next week or later on during April?
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Hi, Stefan.
Simply curious if Maciste Contro il Vampiro will materialize next week or later on during April?
We had a slight delay because of the pressing plant and because of the Easter holidays. Otherwise I would already have made the announcement here.
I would say that if all goes well now the CD will materialize in about 10 days during the first week of April.
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Thanks for the update, Stefan.
Please don't announce it on Friday April 1st because members will think the thread is an April Fool's Day joke. 
Viewing Maciste Contro Il Vampiro in YouTube, the opening titles credit Carlo Savina as the conductor and the music publisher as "DINO".
Since the rights were (are?) with Dino De Laurentiis, does this imply that the master tapes for this '61 Maciste came from RCA Italiana or from the composer's estate?
On a more personal aside, did Lavagnino's 3 daughters ever offer feedback/input on Carlo Savina who conducted a number of their father's scores?
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Viewing Maciste Contro Il Vampiro in YouTube, the opening titles credit Carlo Savina as the conductor and the music publisher as "DINO".
Since the rights were (are?) with Dino De Laurentiis, does this imply that the master tapes for this '61 Maciste came from RCA Italiana or from the composer's estate?
On a more personal aside, did Lavagnino's 3 daughters ever offer feedback/input on Carlo Savina who conducted a number of their father's scores?
Carlo Savina as well as his brother Federico - who was the sound engineer on a lot of famous movies from the early 60s on, also on Goldsmith's QBVII for example - were both very close friends of the Lavagnino family. Carlo got to know Lavagnino even as early as 1939 in Siena - Lavagnino later on gave courses in film music there at the Accademia Chigiana -, and he dedicated his very first concert work in 1941 "Preludio per violino solo" to his good friend Lavagnino. Savina did assist Lavagnino in 1947 on NATALE AL CAMPO 119 (Lavagnino's first official feature film score) and from 1951 onwards very often conducted the scores of his friend. They even worked together on a few films. For example, also our first Lavagnino CD on Alhambra - L'IMPERO DEL SOLE - was conducted by Carlo Savina.
Federico Savina compiled all of his brother's and of Lavagnino's original score manuscripts during the last years and today manages all the documents from both estates in the Biblioteca Luigi Chiarini of the Centro Sperimentale in Rome. You can find very detailed infos for all these individual documents in this online catalogue if you just type in the names of Savina or Lavagnino. There are even detailed infos about the available private tapes in the Savina estate:
http://scuolacinema.sebina.it/SebinaOpacSCR/Opac
As always, the source for our Lavagnino CDs are the open reel master tape copies from the Lavagnino estate. If you read the liner notes in the booklets of our CDs, you will always find there the note at the end that thanks to the support of the three daughters of Lavagnino we had been allowed to use these privates tapes which is their property. The same of course also goes for the MACISTE CONTRO IL VAMPIRO tapes which otherwise would not exist anymore nowadays! We always deal with the Lavagnino family because these tape copies are their property and they have the so-called master rights for them. The daughters also clear up the licensing rights with the musical publishers for us which is most often no problem at all because in most cases for these old scores from the 50s and early 60s the publishers (if the scores are not from the CAM catalogue) have no original tapes anymore anyway and as you might also know such old scores which are more than 50 years old here in Europe in addition would be public domain anyway.
I don't know why above you mention RCA Italiana. RCA Italiana has nothing at all to do with this score and is not the music publisher for it. Also there was never ever a 45rpm release or an LP of MACISTE on the RCA label in former times. The music publisher Dino/Radiofilmusica normally also has nothing to do with RCA. Therefore you are completely mixing up things here.
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I don't know why above you mention RCA Italiana. RCA Italiana has nothing at all to do with this score and is not the music publisher for it. Also there was never ever a 45rpm release or an LP of MACISTE on the RCA label in former times. The music publisher Dino/Radiofilmusica normally also has nothing to do with RCA. Therefore you are completely mixing up things here.
Yes, that was my misunderstanding. I thought there was some connection between Dino Di Laurentiis & RCA (probably because Mayuzumi's The Bible had been released on an Italian RCA LP).
Sorry for the confusion.
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Unfortunately, neither tapes for OTHELLO nor for MARCO POLO are available in the Lavagnino estate.
The earliest tapes which are there are really those for CONTINENTE PERDUTO from 1954 which we could use for our Alhambra CD of this score.
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Since Maciste Contro Il Vampiro was released in April and it's now July, is the next Lavagnino title coming in a matter of weeks?
[I think Stefan mentioned that another AFL would surface about 3 months after Maciste]
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Our next Lavagnino title (also from 1961) goes to the pressing plant in about two weeks and will be officially released probably in mid August.
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No, there was never any 45rpm single or EP of the score released in 1961/1962, although a 10" LP may have been planned at that time as we discovered a 10" acetate disc with a selection of some tracks of the score when looking through the existing material in the estate.
Anyway, this will now be a world premiere release on CD.
If I give you the exact release date of the film, I could then almost give you the title of the score.
Just wait and see.
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I would be far more curious about any new Annette Focks from Alhambra or nothing new on that front? It's been far too long ;-)
That's not my area and certainly also the wrong thread for this question.
You should ask either John Elborg or Jürgen Himmelmann - who both manage the Alhambra label - about any upcoming Annette Focks projects on their Alhambra Facebook website.
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Other Lavagnino titles from 1961:
Madame Sans-Gêne (romance) December 22, 1961 [Italy, France & Spain]
On page 1 of this thread, I referenced this title about one year ago (August of 2015), but
nobody guessed that this would be the latest Lavagnino from Alhambra.
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Stefan mentioned this in the thread on GOLIATH & THE VAMPIRES:
"The next Lavagnino score on Alhambra will probably be released in about three months and it will also be a score from 1961. Not really a peplum, but also not very far off from that genre.
And it will be in stereo."
My two guesses are these: either The Wonders of Aladdin (because it is fantastical not unlike peplum) or Orazi e Curiazi (aka Duel of Champions).
I think the forthcoming stereo recording from 1961 will likely be from Duel of Champions since that picture takes place during ancient Rome ("not very far off" from peplum) and involved Alan Ladd and director Terence Young.
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