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Luchino Visconti

Afternoon Concert Sound of Cinema
Episode 3 of 4

Penny Gore presents music associated with film director Luchino Visconti. Verdi: Overture (La forza del destino). Mahler: Symphony No 5.

Luchino Visconti

From the mid 50s to the late 60s Visconti produced several landmark Verdi operas in La Scala, Spoleto and the Royal Opera House. He had been part of the Italian neorealist cinema movement, along with Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini. But by the time he made "Death in Venice" in 1971 he was making more personal films in which decadence, decline and "beauty" become key aesthetics. In Thomas Mann's original novella the role of Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) is an author, but Visconti makes him a composer and the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony appears again and again as Aschenbach watches the "beautiful" youth Tadzio. from afar.

Verdi
Overture La forza del destino
West-East Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim

Mahler
Symphony No.5
West German Radio SYmphony Orchestra, Jukka Pekka Saraste.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Wed 2 Oct 2013 14:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Aon3_WK40_FILL O mio babbino caro - Room with a view

    Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Performer: Maciej Pikulski.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no. 5 in C sharp minor

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Intermezzo sinfonico from "Cavelleria rusticana"

    Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Nello Santi.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: West鈥揈astern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

Broadcast

  • Wed 2 Oct 2013 14:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3