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No tapes for HOT ENOUGH FOR JUNE or MARCO POLO exist. So they can´t be released on CD.
While this information rules out Marco Polo as one of the 1962 possibilities, Stefan hasn't yet disqualified Marcia o crepa.
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1962 Ulisse contro Ercole [DVD: yes] Peplum
1962 Il vecchio testamento [DVD: yes] Adventure/Peplum
1962 Il tiranno di Siracusa [DVD: yes] Peplum
1962 Dal sabato al lunedì Comedy, Cam 7"
1962 La leggenda di Fra Diavolo Adventure
1962 Marcia o crepa War, 7" single by Nino Rosso
1962 Carmen di Trastevere Comedy
January 1963 Caterina di Russia [DVD: yes] Drama
Does the title on the upcoming Alhambra disc reside within this above list, Stefan?
Or is this forthcoming CD a surprise not yet mentioned in our speculations?
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1962 Ulisse contro Ercole [DVD: yes] Peplum
1962 Il vecchio testamento [DVD: yes] Adventure/Peplum
1962 Il tiranno di Siracusa [DVD: yes] Peplum
1962 Dal sabato al lunedì Comedy, Cam 7"
1962 La leggenda di Fra Diavolo Adventure
1962 Marcia o crepa War, 7" single by Nino Rosso
1962 Carmen di Trastevere Comedy
January 1963 Caterina di Russia [DVD: yes] Drama
Does the title on the upcoming Alhambra disc reside within this above list, Stefan?
Yes, the title which we will release on CD in about 4-5 weeks is in the above list, but it is not MARCIA O CREPA.
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You can definitely exclude DAL SABATO AL LUNEDI and CARMEN DI TRASTEVERE from the list. 
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So we are down to 5 dramatic/adventure scores To be fair, I'd be happy for any them and I don't mind for a surprise!
It may be that the most likely of those 5 is Il tiranno di Siracusa (aka Damon and Pythias) if for no other reason than this motion picture was a co-production between Italy & U.S.A. and might therefore have more potential American customers.
Still, I hope it could be La leggenda di Fra Diavolo (aka The Last Charge) because I'd like to hear how Lavagnino musically approached a Zorro-like swashbuckler (which this flick appears to be).
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A nice discovery, looking forward to it!
Tomorrow our new Lavagnino release on Alhambra - an exciting score from 1962 for the first time ever on CD - will be announced and will also be available for pre-order.
I hope everyone will be happy.
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Tomorrow our new Lavagnino release on Alhambra - an exciting score from 1962 for the first time ever on CD - will be announced and will also be available for pre-order.
I hope everyone will be happy.
Ah ... so it is one of my two prior guesses: La leggenda di Fra Diavolo.
This movie stars actress Haya Harareet (who is still with us).
Harareet was only in around 8 feature films, so this Alhambra album will mean that half her films have corresponding soundtracks. [Ben Hur, The Interns, Antinea ... and now Fra Diavolo]
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We have one more Lavagnino CD on Alhambra for the end of this year.
The CD will be announced next Monday. The lovely score (with choir) on the CD is from the late 50s, will be a world premiere and has even been preserved in stereo. As a bonus we have added the music for a short documentary from the early 60s.
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We have one more Lavagnino CD on Alhambra for the end of this year.
The CD will be announced next Monday. The lovely score (with choir) on the CD is from the late 50s, will be a world premiere and has even been preserved in stereo. As a bonus we have added the music for a short documentary from the early 60s.
Thanks, Stefan, for the news.
Probably too late to start guessing (as this will be announced in less than a week from now), but here are some random thoughts:
1956 Mio figlio Nerone
1956 Orlando e i Paladini di Francia
1958 Storm Over Jamaica
1958 Calypso
1959 Le notti di Lucrezia Borgia
These are only wild hunches based upon titles which sound historical or might involve music with chorus.
Don't know if any of these have choral passages, but - as the master tapes are in stereo - the music is likely from a larger budgeted production.
Is the conductor Carlo Savina?
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Quite good guesses.
However, I have to tell you that LE NOTTI DI LUCREZIA BORGIA from 1959 was not at all scored by Lavagnino. The composer of this score was Alessandro Derevitsky and I even have a few tracks from this score which had been released on various Italian Fonit Usignolo library LPs during the late 60s without mentioning the film´s title of course. Quite good and passionate score by the way and with a very Wagnerian and Tchaikovskian touch. So the info on IMDB about Lavagnino´s contribution is completely wrong. You can forget it.
For the late 50s score on our CD the name of the conductor is mentioned nowhere - neither in the film´s main title credits nor on the tape boxes we had at our disposal. On the other hand, the conductor for the short documentary score which is also on the CD was Franco Ferrara.
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Quite good guesses.
However, I have to tell you that LE NOTTI DI LUCREZIA BORGIA from 1959 was not at all scored by Lavagnino. The composer of this score was Alessandro Derevitsky and I even have a few tracks from this score which had been released on various Italian Fonit Usignolo library LPs during the late 60s without mentioning the film´s title of course. Quite good and passionate score by the way and with a very Wagnerian and Tchaikovskian touch. So the info on IMDB about Lavagnino´s contribution is completely wrong. You can forget it.
Thanks for the Derevitsky info on Borgia, Stefan.
However, you didn't mention that one of my four other guesses happens to be correct: Calypso it is!
Do master tapes on Passionate Summer (aka Storm over Jamaica) exist within the Lavagnino estate?
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Do master tapes on Passionate Summer (aka Storm over Jamaica) exist within the Lavagnino estate?
PASSIONATE SUMMER has a wonderful main theme, but unfortunately tapes for this score do not exist in the Lavagnino estate.
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Ursus e la ragazza tartara (adventure) December 30, 1961 [Italy & France]
This one's coming! Not from Alhambra, though, but it's coming ... via the Kronos Gold Collection:
http://kronosrecords.com/KG31.html
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Accorrding to wiki, "Carmen di Trastevere" also has classical music from Georges Bizet, thus it might be a shorter score? So I'd go for "Il vecchio testamento", "La leggenda di Fra Diavolo" or "Caterina di Russia". 
