Nino Rota

At the turn of the nineteenth century, after many decades in which the operatic genre dominated Italian music, the country witnessed a 'renaissance' of instrumental music. A generation of composers bo...

On Christmas Eve 1950, the Italian Radio broadcast a radio play based on Adalbert Stifter's novella Rock Crystal. The music was written by Nino Rota, the translation was made by Gabriella Benci and Ip...

Both waltzes are based on the famous musical cryptogram B-A-C-H and were created in 1975. The very same year, Nino Rota was asked by Federico Fellini, who was just shooting the film Casanova, to write...

In the unparalleled series ‚Cadenza‘, Schott Musik International presentscadences of well-known instrumental concertos of classical and Romantic music, composed by major composers and solo...

The Cello Concerto No. 2 is Nino Rota's third contribution to the genre, but he does not include the early Cello Concerto dating back to 1925 in his own list of works: this composition only received i...

The Cello Concerto No. 2 is Nino Rota's third contribution to the genre, but he does not include the early Cello Concerto dating back to 1925 in his own list of works: this composition only received i...