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It's great to read of the involvement of Carlo Savina and the 20th Century-Fox scoring stage on this score. Is the general opinion here that the recording quality exceeds pre-release expectations?
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Just curious: does this release finally put to bed the long standing debate of who played the trumpet solo? In the above link, ( given by mikael488 ) it lists two- Uan Rasey, Jimmy Maxwell.
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Perhaps they will feature it prominently alongside Godfather 2 if they release that later in the year.
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Hearing the shiny new stereo sound is an incredible treat, thanks in no small part to Mike Matessino and the other geniuses at LLL. The new album was mixed by Chris Malone and mastered by Doug Schwartz. My one teeny-tiny complaint is the lack of personnel list in the back, and no note (that I could find) of where the score was recorded. There's no documentation to share. We looked. I think it was recorded in the US because the tapes are all vocal slated in English by an American. Neil The band from Connie's wedding scene was brought together again by Carmine Coppola for studio recordings of his Tarantella, Mazurka, Foxtrot etc. recordings on CD 2. Shamefully they never got credited, but the mandolin player was a child prodigy from Sicily, Giovanni Vicari. He was pretty sought after as he immigrated to America and made tons of recordings into old age. Also on the banjo. Carmine asked him to get together a small group of people and play live on the movie set, so what we see there is Giovanni's band. While he passed away in the 1980s, I am able to say this so confidently because I happen to know students of his from the USA. But since most of the score was done by Rota, there's only a slim chance that this group was invited to the other recording sessions. Carmine only took over a bigger role as a conductor for the second movie. There have been some crazy rumors over the years that Frank Sinatra's guitarist Al Viola played all guitars and mandolins on the score, to which he himself apparently greatly contributed. Completely unfounded in my opinion and not only because of the drama caused by the Tommy Dorsey and Willie Morretti backstory that inspired Johnny Fontane. However, we have at least the testimony of Carlo Savina in the book "Ritratto di un compositore: Carlo Savina" (published in 2007). Savina had been interviewed in 2002 for an Italian TV programme and there he stated that the score had indeed been recorded in the US. These are his comments which can be read in the book in Italian language on page 112 (the English translation is by me): "I was lucky enough to work in America when I went there to conduct the music for Coppola´s THE GODFATHER and I assure you that when I began to conduct the music for this film I was laughing a bit. There was this enormous hall of the 20th Century Fox studios and 3000 persons visited it... a whole audience of persons, actors who had come to listen to the music. The only one missing was the actual composer Nino Rota, as he had been afraid of travelling by plane and therefore had not come... and I thought...your fear is my luck. Thanks!" 100% confirmed to have been recorded in the USA under Carlo Savina's direction as Nino Rota sent him there with just his personal piano sheets and markings as to how the orchestra should perform the themes. You can read it in the official film score guide by Franco Sciannameo. It's completely in English!
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