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Under-the-Radar Round Up 2014, Part 2
Original Reviews by Jonathan Broxton
I’m pleased to present the latest installment in my on-going series of articles looking at the best under-the-radar scores from around the world.
This article, the second of 2014, looks at four of the best scores from Italy. Italian cinema doesn’t quite have the same level of acclaim and popularity as it did in the past, and the glory days when composers such as Ennio Morricone, Pino Donaggio, Nino Rota, and Riz Ortolani dominated the country’s film music scene appear to be mostly over; meanwhile, several of today’s most prominent Italian composers, including Dario Marianelli, Carlo Siliotto, and Nicola Piovani, tend to work primarily on non-Italian projects.
Ironically, some of the most promising Italian film music being written today appears to be for television, and three of the four scores featured here originated on the small screen: Stefano Caprioli’s Furore: Il Vento della Speranza and I Segreti di Borgo Larici, both of which showcase his rich, classical, strongly thematic style, and Andrea Farri’s Le Mani Dentro la Città, an excellent example of contemporary action-thriller scoring which blends orchestra and electronics without allowing the latter to overwhelm the former. The final score is Alexander Cimini’s Red Krokodil, a stunningly beautiful and unexpectedly symphonic accompaniment to a dark and disturbing art-house drama, and one which earmarks Cimini as “a composer to watch.”
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