Track Listing

1. Passerella Di Otto E Mezzo
2. Cimitero - Cigolette
3. E Poi
4. Illusionista
5. Concertino Alle Terme
6. Nell'ufficio Di Produzione Di Otto E Mezzo
7. Ricordo d'Infanzia
8. Guido E Luisa
9. Carlotta's Galopp
10. Harem
11. Rivolta Nell'harem
12. Passerella Di Addio

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #281115 in Music
• Released on: 1999-02-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, Soundtrack
• Original language: English, French, German, Italian

Album Details
Another Nino Rota Masterpiece and One of the Cornerstone Pieces of his Career. From the Film by the Late Federico Fellini Starring Marcello Mastrianni and Claudia Cardinale. The Film Won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film as Well as Many Others.

Customer Reviews

Fellini-Rota masterpiece
*81/2" is Fellni's masterpiece as a film director, and with "La Strada," "La Dolce Vita," "Juliet of the Spirits" and "Amarcord," one the finest scores Rota composed for Fellini during his 30-year collaboration (ended only by the composer's death) with the director. I've enjoyed this recording since RCA issued in the U.S. in 1963 and also have the earlier stereo CD version produced by CAM in 1991. The selections are the same here as on the earlier issues. Regrettably, some major cues are missing. La Saraghina's dance, for instance, is heard not from the famed beach sequence, but only in a snippet reprised in the even more famous harem scene. Sadder, the nostalgic underscore, principally for guitar, to Guido's rememberance of one magic night from his boyhood and the wordless vocalise sung over the film's final credits aren't here either. Still, Rota's collage (including everything from music for circus band to some wittily employed selections from Rossini, Tchiakovsky and Wagner) remains potent, amusing and a complete delight.

Perfectly Sublime!
Nina Rota and Classical music combine to create one of the greatest soundtracks ever. The music will have you reliving fellini's masterpeice every time you hear it. like the film, this score is truly unforgettable.

A classic soundtrack
Nino Rota is, in my mind, the best composer of the latter half of the 19th Century. You don't have to see the films to enjoy the music he composed for them; and much of his classical music has been considerably neglected. The audio to the soundtrack to 8 1/2 is outdated and if you want a version of La Passerella di addio to impress, you're better off with the Riccardo Muti conducted version on Music for Film or the Carla Bley arrangement on the recent Bravo Nino Rota CD by the Australian group the Umbrellas, or the original on Amarcord Nino Rota. Despite there being a wide range of improved interpretations of the main theme, the original soundtrack to 8 1/2 still has major importance to the Rota and Fellini emphusiast. Variations such as L'Harem, and tracks such as Guido E Luisa Nostalgico Swing and E Poi (Valzer) make for a delicious soundtrack, that would become a passion of Elmer Bernstein's. In terms of today's audio quality, you'd be unimpressed. But this is of no deterrance to a collector of classic film scores, a category which 8 1/2 indisputably falls under.