La Dolce Vita [Import, Soundtrack]

Nino Rota | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 19, 2002)
• Original Release Date: April 19, 1961
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Soundtrack
• Label: Cam
• ASIN: B00000IKPI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #373,311 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Titoli di Testa: Canzonetta / Notturno II / Cadillac

2. La Dolce Vita: Arrivederci Roma / Caracalla's / La Bersagliera

3. La Dolce Vita: In Via Veneto

4. Patricia: Canzonetta / Entrata dei gladiatori / Parlami di me (Valzer)

5. Lola (Yes Sir, That's My Baby): Parlami di me (Valzer) / Stormy weather

6. Via Veneto E I Nobili

7. Blues: La dolce vita dei nobili

8. Notturno o Mattutino

9. La Dolce Vita: La bella malinconica

10. La Dolce Vita Nella Villa di Fregene: Can Can / Jingle Bells / Blues -

11. La Dolce Vita (Finale)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MAYBE NINO ROTA'S BEST SCORE FOR FELLINI'S BEST FILM, November 20, 2000

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L. S. Slaughter "silvanus" (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: La Dolce Vita (Audio CD)

Something hangs in your head or it doesn't. Nino Rota's lovely little poignant melody that is the theme for LA DOLCE VITA stuck in my head when I was five and never evaporated; it actually became an obsession. Balanced betwixt melancholic wisdom and whimsy, the film and the score are two of those cosmic jewels that mark some people's lives, and they will bethe first to tell you about it.

Two themes weave in and out of this masterful score, 'La Dolce Vita' and 'Parlarmi de me (Speak to Me)'. Most of the treatments fall into the blues-jazz and swing modes, and the variations are never boring or repetitive. Sprinkled throughout are brief treaments and allusions to such hits of the era as 'Arrividerci Roma', 'Patricia' and 'Stormy Weather'.

The instrumentation is stellar here, a magical blend of jazz combo, orchestra, latin percussuion, and some kind of late 50s-early 60s electronic organ of which Rota was fond of employing (and gets my vote for the coolest pre-synth sound in the universe). It kind of like a theremin, but warmer, less sci-fi, more wistful.

The final cut is a blend of the rhythm of Perez Prado's "Why Wait", a worldwide smash in 1959, and the main title of 'La Dolce Vita'.

As Fellini was fond of saying "Nino was an angel", it is nowhere better evidence in Nino's discography than here. Plus you get that great picture of Anita Ekberg on the cover.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dolce Indeed!, June 12, 2002

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DXR "The Eyeful" (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: La Dolce Vita (Audio CD)

Some things in life are absolutely *certain*. Some of these certainties are even good things, like Nino Rota's imagination and virtuosity!

La Dolce Vita is an indespensible piece of music for those who wish to be transported backward, upward, into the heart of Fellini's Italia...

Let your own imagination wander to another place...buy this.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting, July 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: La Dolce Vita (Audio CD)

This movie and soundtrack have been favorites of mine for going on 15 years now....it's hard to describe it if you haven't seen and heard it. Best to rent the movie and decide for yourself. Suffice to say, this is one of the best CDs to float away too,
be it sleep or your imagination. Timeless.