| Digitmovies once again explores the wide
territory of the Italian Peplum by releasing as Volume XIX
the complete OST by Carlo Savina in mono from the movie Il
Massacro Della Foresta Nera directed in 1967 by Ferdinando
Baldi and starring Antonella Lualdi, Hans von Borsody, Cameron
Mitchell, Beba Loncar, Peter Carsten.
The young Arminius (von Borsody), chief of the Germanic tribe
of the Cherusceans, revolts against the Romans from whom he
learned the art of military and defeats Quintilius Varus'
three legions in the forest of Teutoburg.
Later he is defeated by his former friend Aulus Cecina (Mitchell)
and dies in battle.
The director Ferdinando Baldi almost simultaneously shot All’Ombra
Delle Aquile and Il Massacro Della Foresta Nera with the same
cast, locations and costumes (for budgetary reasons of the
German production company), but the money that was invested
allowed the composer Carlo Savina to write two completely
different orchestral OSTs.
All'Ombra Delle Aquile is already available on CD Digitmovies.
For the present CD we have used the mono master tapes of
the original session (except for the first 48 seconds of Tr.
4 which are in full stereo), and each note recorded at the
time appears here.
Carlo Savina is perfectly able to balance the historical
era of the hero Arminius by writing extremely violent and
dramatic battle music (Tr. 2, Tr. 7, Tr. 8, Tr. 9, Tr. 10,
Tr. 11, Tr. 13, Tr. 14, Tr. 19) introduced by the epic march
of the Titoli dominated by the French horns (Tr. 1) and contrasting
them with a sweet and lyrical love theme (Tr. 5, Tr. 12, Tr.
15 , Tr. 17, Tr. 18).
A proper rescue and preservation of an OST of the Italian
Silver Age which pays homage to the career of Carlo Savina.
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