Nino Rota: Suite del Casanova di Federico Fellini; Magdalena Baczewska, piano

Nino Rota: Suite del Casanova di Federico Fellini
0:03: Venezia, Venaga, Venusia
3:31: The Great Mouna
6:09: La Poupée automate

Magdalena Baczewska, piano

The Italian Academy at Columbia University
November 16, 2016

Magdalena Baczewska is the Director of the Music Performance Program and member of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University.

For more info, visit MagdalenaNYC.com

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[ritatatam]

Thanks, absolute perfect version. Delicate as the original.

[ipermetro]

Valuable interpretation that fully brings out the dreamlike suggestions - imbued with restlessness and melancholy - masterfully created by Rota for Fellini's wonderful film. With gratitude and admiration, Stefano Coculo.
Interpretazione di pregio che fa pienamente emergere le oniriche suggestioni - intrise di inquietudine e melanconia - create magistralmente da Rota per il meraviglioso film felliniano. Con gratitudine e ammirazione, Stefano Coculo.

[Ferocious_Imbecile]

This deserves at least one comment, surely; first thank you for a superb performance. It's most enjoyable. Secondly, I love Frederico Fellini's Casanova which I regard as his greatest movie and that's saying a lot when you stop and think of Amaracord, Satyricon, Il Bidone, 8 1/2, and La Dolce Vita. It's one of the ten greatest movies of all time though greatly unappreciated by the masses and critics alike who, frankly I find wanting intellectually and spiritually to the task of comprehending its greatness. Fellini is so much more than Fellini himself; it's Giuseppe Rotunno, cinematographer, it's Dante Feretti, set designer, Danilo Donati, costume designer, and of course the mysterious and evocative music of Nino Rota. Your interpretation succeeds in getting to the very core of this strange movie, like faded silk garments and the darkened silenced halls of baroque palaces haunted by the people that once inhabited them long ago.