Morricone: Cinema Rarities for Violin and String Orchestra Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto & Marco Serino

• Ennio Morricone (1928 - 2020): Notturno (From "La califfa"):
• 1Morricone: Notturno (From "La califfa")03:46
• La cena (From "La califfa"):
• 2Morricone: La cena (From "La califfa")02:26
• Mauro Bolognini Suite:
• 3Morricone: Mauro Bolognini Suite: Intro03:52
• 4Morricone: Mauro Bolognini Suite: Per le antiche scale's Main Theme (From "Per le antiche scale")02:19
• 5Morricone: Mauro Bolognini Suite: L’eredità Ferramonti (From "Ricordo d’amore")03:34
• Quattro Adagi:
• 6Morricone: Quattro Adagi: I. Chi (From "Maddalena")03:31
• 7Morricone: Quattro Adagi: II. Tema di Debora (From "Once Upon a Time in America")03:25
• 8Morricone: Quattro Adagi: III. Addio ai monti (From "I promessi sposi")02:39
• 9Morricone: Quattro Adagi: IV. Tema di Vatel (From "Vatel")04:06
• Italian Theme (From "Le Clan des Siciliens"):
• 10Morricone: Italian Theme (From "Le Clan des Siciliens")03:34
• Quasi un Vivaldi (From "Revolver"):
• 11Morricone: Quasi un Vivaldi (From "Revolver")01:36
• Taviani Brothers Suite:
• 12Morricone: Taviani Brothers Suite: Allonsanfàn (From "Ritorno a casa")02:46
• 13Morricone: Taviani Brothers Suite: Il prato's Main Theme (From "Il prato")04:48
• Silvano Agosti Suite:
• 14Morricone: Silvano Agosti Suite: La ragion pura (From "Dedicato a Maria")04:07
• 15Morricone: Silvano Agosti Suite: Quartiere (From "Romanza Quartiere")03:15
• Man with a Harmonica (From "Once Upon a Time in the West"):
• 16Morricone: Man with a Harmonica (From "Once Upon a Time in the West")02:54
• Lolita's Main Theme (From "Lolita"):
• 17Morricone: Lolita's Main Theme (From "Lolita")02:53
• Total Runtime55:31

Info for Morricone: Cinema Rarities for Violin and String Orchestra

The idea for this album came about during the recording of its predecessor Cinema Suites (BBC Music Magazine’s “Screen Choice”, Album of the Week on WDR3 etc.), when the Morricone family sent Marco Serino a number of rarities that they hoped could also be recorded, particularly “Dedicated to Maria” (from the film The Sleeping Wife ) that the composer had dedicated to his wife. These works, along with others that Serino rediscovered in his own archives, make up the backbone of Cinema Rarities , an ideal sequel to the previous recording. After twenty years as Ennio Morricone’s chosen violinist, Serino continues his exploration of the compositions for violin and orchestra, but this time with a particular focus on pieces that, besides being less well known to the wider public, all share a degree of “Italianness”.

The main nucleus of the program consists of three suites named after three Italian film directors (Silvano Agosti, Mauro Bolognini and the Taviani brothers), with whom Morricone worked closely. Although the respective films did not achieve the international acclaim of those directed by Sergio Leone or Giuseppe Tornatore, which featured in the previous recording, they inspired the composer to come up with new and distinctive solutions, such as “Love Remembered” from The Inheritance , considered by Marco Serino to be one of the most beautiful.

Equally quintessentially Italian are the two extracts from the scores for The Lady Caliph directed by Alberto Bevilacqua, including the lovely “Nocturne” and the brief “Quasi un Vivaldi” (from Sergio Sollima’s film Revolver ), which herald by almost a decade remakes like Gian Piero Reverberi’s Rondò Veneziano.

A unique place is occupied by Four Adagios , a collection of four pieces chosen by the composer himself (including the iconic “Whoever” and “Deborah’s Theme”), which in this arrangement for violin cites the main theme of the first movement of the Beethoven Concerto. Dedicated to Serino and performed worldwide under the baton of Morricone, Four Adagios speaks to the artistic partnership between composer and violinist, their mutual professional respect and deep friendship.

Orchestra Di Padova E Del Veneto
Marco Serino, violin, direction

Marco Serino
completed his musical studies at the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, obtaining diplomas in violin and chamber music with full marks and honors.

Afterwards he studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna with Gunter Pichler; the ProQuartet in Paris with the Amadeus, Melos, Berg, and La Salle Quartets; the Royal College of London and the Geneva Conservatory with Corrado Romano, where he was awarded the ‘Premier Prix de virtuosité’.

In 1990, he founded the Bernini Quartet and has been a member of the famous ensemble, ‘I Musici’; as a soloist and chamber musician he collaborates with some of the most famous performers, including, just to name a few, Giuliano Carmignola, Christophe Coin, Wladimir Mendelssohn, Mario Brunello, Giovanni Sollima, Francesco Cera, Bruno Canino, Gérard Caussé, Hector Passarella, and Alessandro Carbonare.

He performs as a soloist and chamber musician in the most prestigious halls around the world, including the Berlin and Köln Philharmonic, Herkulessaal and Prinzregententheater in Munich, Musikverein in Vienna, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Theater Mariinsky of St. Petersburg, Suntory Hall of Tokyo, Arts Performance Center of Seoul, National Theater of Beijing, Shanghai Theater, Mozarteum Salzburg, Rome Auditorium S. Cecilia, Milano Società del Quartetto, Venice Biennale, etc. He was devoted the works of Important composers: worth remembering are the collaborations with Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, Matteo D’Amico, Alessandro Sbordoni, Gideon Lewinshon, Steve Reich, Ada Gentile, and Pascal Dusapin.

As a soloist or second violin he has collaborated with important orchestras, including the National Academy of S. Cecilia; the Kammerorchester, Zürich; Haydn, Bolzano; La Stravaganza, Bucharest; the Abruzzese Symphony Orchestra; the Bellini Theater, Catania; Rome Sinfonietta; the ICO Orchestra, Lecce; the Regional Orchestra of Rome and Lazio; and others.

He has recorded for some prestigious record companies, including Decca, Amadeus, Foné, Tactus reviewed and awarded by the most important specialized magazines, such as Strad, Repertoire, Classica, and Amadeus.

In 1999, Ennio Morricone – of whom, since 2000 he has been the solo violin of all soundtracks – awarded him the prestigious “Michelangelo Prize”, previously awarded to Goffredo Petrassi, Bruno Cagli, Morricone himself, Renzo Piano, Alberto Sordi, and others, for having particularly distinguished himself in the dissemination of human and cultural values.

He is a tenured violin teacher at the Trento Conservatory and has held masterclasses in the United States at many universities in North America; at the Accademia für alte Musik in Brunico; at many Italian conservatories; at the Arts Academy; and at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana.

He also deals with musicological research, and recently his reconstructions of unpublished concertos for violin by J.S. Bach have been recorded for Deutsche Grammophon by Concerto Köln and Giuliano Carmignola.

He plays a violin by Niccolò Amati, Cremona, 1661.

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