Digitmovies is glad to release for the very
first time on CD the OST by the prolific trio Bixio-Frizzi-Tempera
from the dramatic movie Ritratto Di Borghesia In Nero directed
by Tonino Cervi and starring Senta Berger, Ornella Muti, Capucine,
Mattia Sbragia, Paolo Bonacelli, Giuliana Calandra, Giancarlo
Sbragia, Stefano Patrizi, Maria Monti, Eros Pagni, Christian
Borromeo.
It is based on the novel La Maestra Di Piano by Roger Peyrefitte.
Venice in summer 1938: The young Mattia Morandi (Patrizi)
from Lecco arrives in the Venetian lagoon after having won
a music aid grant.
He becomes a friend of Renato Richter (Borromeo) and also
the lover of his mother Carla (Berger), his piano teacher.
The woman hopes that her son will marry the very beautiful
and coddled Elena (Muti) of the very rich Mazzarini family
whom she gives piano lessons.
The very young girl falls in love with Mattia who requits
her love and leaves her mature lover.
Carla does not accept this love defeat and she does her best
to revenge the betrayal and to try an impossible reconquest
by sending anonymous letters, writing blackmails and even
seducing Mattia's girlfriend.
Also Elena does not admit any defeat and she kills her opponent.
The investigation of commissioner Franchetti (Pagni) is immediately
deadlocked due to the power and respectability of the Mazzarinis.
Elena and Mattia willl marry in a church with a sumptuous
ceremony.
Franco Bixio, Fabio Frizzi and Vince Tempera have written
a monothematic score based on a recurrent romantic and sad
theme for piano an orchestra, Carla's Theme introduced in
a modern version with rhythmics (side A of the original single,
tr. 1) and reprised with variations as in Tr. 3, Tr. 4, Tr.
7, Tr. 11, Tr. 24, Tr. 20.
This theme gets alternated with dance floor motifs with an
ancient and popular flavor like Immagini Sfocate introduced
in Tr. 2 (side B of the original single) and reprised in Tr.
14 and with a fox-trot (Tr. 6, Tr. 12).
For our CD presentation we have used the stereo master tape
of the original single (MDF 117) issued in 1978 as well as
the session master tapes mixed in mono and partially in full
stereo.
An OST which deserved it to be rescued and preserved on CD.
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