Like Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Renzo Rossellini was a classical composer who composed for films too. But in Rossellini’s case, it was his scores for the films of his older brother, the legendary Post World War II director, Roberto Rossellini, for which he is best remembered, especially A Pilot Returns, Rome Open City, The Children Are Watching Us, The Man with a Cross, Il segno di Venere, The White Ship, Paisan, Germany Year Zero, L'Amore and most famously, Stromboli terra di Dio, which starred Ingrid Bergman. In fact Renzo Rossellini was kept so busy writing music for his brother’s films between 1942 and 1952 that “VANGELO MINIMO (The Minimalist Gospel), a 30 minute Orchestral Suite with chorus in 8 movements (based on pivotal events in the life of Jesus Christ), which again like Korngold, featured a few musical themes from his lesser known film scores, had to be composed between film assignments. VANGELO MINIMO was recorded monaurally by RCA Italiana in 1957 in Rome, and released on LP only in Italy. That LP went out of print quickly and very little of Rossellini’s other classical output, which included several ballets, oratorios, cantatas, four operas, symphonies, chamber music and songs have been recorded. One of my first LP restoration projects was the transfer of a very clean (for Italian vinyl, which is not saying much) LP of this score. Earlier this year before illness set in, I went back and remastered my original 24 bit transfer of the LP using the much newer audio tools at my disposal, including the extraction process which allows monaural recordings to breathe across the two speaker & headphone systems used today and the results were much better than I expected since the original recording had the boxy, constricted sound of 1950s Italian LPs. Unlike the original LP this download also includes remasterings of two Rossellini concert works, recorded for CBS by conductor Efrem Kurtz, “Songs from the Bay of Naples” & “Ninna Nanna”. VANGELO MINIMO is one of those “Holy Grail” LPs that seldom show up on auctions and, as far as I can tell at this writing, has never been released in any other format ever. That wouldn’t be important if the musical content was not worthy but VANGELO MINIMO is a fantastically beautiful score that deserves to be heard by a larger audience. I hope you agree.

Renzo Rossellini: VANGELO MINIMO , SONGS FROM THE BAY OF NAPLES, NINNA NANNA
Hi-Rez FLAC format: https://mega.nz/#!low1XCiY!Bo2VWDaXYLtxKOjMjEnlamdOuaFHBQaD1xan3f5Oebw

Great work!!! Thank you!!!

Thank you for your work on this very rare LP Stevie, you've done a great job and the music is lovely, with 'Vangelo minimo' sounding as it could be a film score.

Thanks

Thanks a lot!
Please, other Renzo Rossellini's soundtracks or scores....it was a great musician, unfairly forgotten.

Renzo Rossellini: VANGELO MINIMO , SONGS FROM THE BAY OF NAPLES, NINNA NANNA
Hi-Rez FLAC format: https://www.sendspace.com/file/jtrdqz

Apple does not support FLAC in iTunes. They have something against any open source project that they can't make money from. Same goes for Ogg. There are so many better audio players than iTunes that it is really not practical to kep on using it.

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The FLAC files are 16bit / 44.1kHz.

Thanck you very much !

What a rarity, many thanks.

Thanks so much -- this is one of the best shares ever on this forum. I use iTunes because I use their iTunes match program (thank god they increased to 100,000 uploaded songs). I don't find it hard to convert to Apple Lossless from FLAC or WAV however, using a fine free program called XLD.

You are truly a gentleman of taste and perspicacity!

Many Thanks Indeed :-D

Thank you share!

thanks

Here is a new link to this rare, wonderful album:
Renzo Rossellini: VANGELO MINIMO , SONGS FROM THE BAY OF NAPLES, NINNA NANNA
Hi-Rez FLAC format: https://mega.nz/#!low1XCiY!Bo2VWDaXYLtxKOjMjEnlamdOuaFHBQaD1xan3f5Oebw

Thank you for sharing!

Updated (FLAC only) limited time link to this beautiful score:
Renzo Rossellini: VANGELO MINIMO , SONGS FROM THE BAY OF NAPLES, NINNA NANNA
Hi-Rez FLAC format: https://mega.nz/#!low1XCiY!Bo2VWDaXYLtxKOjMjEnlamdOuaFHBQaD1xan3f5Oebw

ANy chance of a reup as I would love to hear this. Thanks.

ANy chance of a reup as I would love to hear this. Thanks.
Updated (FLAC only) limited time link to this beautiful score:
Renzo Rossellini: VANGELO MINIMO , SONGS FROM THE BAY OF NAPLES, NINNA NANNA
Hi-Rez FLAC format: https://mega.nz/#!low1XCiY!Bo2VWDaXYLtxKOjMjEnlamdOuaFHBQaD1xan3f5Oebw

You're awesome. Thanks.

Thank you so much

Updated (FLAC only) limited time link to this beautiful score:
Renzo Rossellini: VANGELO MINIMO , SONGS FROM THE BAY OF NAPLES, NINNA NANNA
Hi-Rez FLAC format: https://mega.nz/#!low1XCiY!Bo2VWDaXYLtxKOjMjEnlamdOuaFHBQaD1xan3f5Oebw

Thanks.

Thank you for sharing this!

Thank you.

Just in time for the Holidays,
Updated (FLAC only) limited time link to this beautiful score:
Renzo Rossellini: VANGELO MINIMO , SONGS FROM THE BAY OF NAPLES, NINNA NANNA
Hi-Rez FLAC format: https://mega.nz/#!low1XCiY!Bo2VWDaXYLtxKOjMjEnlamdOuaFHBQaD1xan3f5Oebw