Digitmovies continues to explore the world
of the TV cult with this first-time release of the complete
and full stereo OST by Stelvio Cipriani from the TV mini-series
in three episodes Il Fauno Di Marmo which was broadcast on
RAI Television from September 28th to October 12th, 1977 and
was directed by Silverio Blasi.
It starred Marina Malfatti as Miriam, an artist with an ambiguous
personality, Consuelo Ferrara as Hilda, a young and ingenous
American artist, Donato Placido as Donatello, a Roman guy
from a wealthy family who blindly falls in love with Miriam,
Orso Maria Guerrini, who, besides playing Kenyon, is also
the off-screen narrator.
This famous TV program was liberally based on the novel by
Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Marble Faun).
The main characters are inexplicablyy pursued by a mysterious
entity who appears to them in the Roman catacombs dressed
in a black mantle and hood.
The plot begins with Kenyon's rescue of an anonymous
diary from the 19th century where the figures of four friends
similar to Kenyon, Miriam, Hilda and Donatello are mentioned.
They seem to be condemned to re-live a mystery which had happened
100 years before.
In 1977 only a 45 rpm single (Vedette VVN 33290) was issued
which contained the song Un Sogno A Metà sung by Lando
Fiorini (already a veteran who a few years before had sung
the big hit Cento Campane from another TV cult movie Il Segno
Del Comando), a romantic, sad and magic motif in a modern
arrangement and with a full string orchestra arranged and
conducted by M° Cipriani which appeared as the end titles
song (Tr. 21).
For this lengthy CD we could use the full stereo master tapes
of the original session where also outstanding soloists appear
(according to the composer's memories) like Franco De
Gemini on the harmonica and Claudio Simonetti on keyboards
(with the later musician the composer had also collaborated
on the OSTs of Solamente Nero and Un'Ombra Nell'Ombra).
The instrumental score alternates electronic and sometimes
mysterious atmospheres which almost border on the progressive
music style with a recurrent passage of guitar and flute as
in Tr. 2, Tr. 4, Tr. 5, Tr. 7, Tr. 8, Tr. 10 and with suggestive
instrumental reprises of the song as in the Main Title (Tr.
1), Tr. 3, Tr. 6, Tr. 9 (versione bossa), Tr. 12, Tr. 15,
Tr. 17, Tr1 9.
A proper rescue and preservation which pays tribute to the
music of Stelvio Cipriani and to the Italian Television history. |
