Piero Piccioni – Il Bell` Antonio (2008, FLAC)

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Review by Uncle Dave Lewis

"A breath opens operatic breaches in the walls…." So opens a puzzling stanza from poet Arthur Rimbaud, however this odd line of poetry well describes much of Piero Piccioni’s score for the Mauro Bolognini’s film Il bell’Antonio, just one among eight features Piccioni scored that year. The film, partly scripted by Pier Paolo Pasolini (not "Pasquini," as is listed on the front cover here), starred Marcello Mastroianni as a hunky guy all the women seem to love who just can’t seem to make any of them happy in the way they might expect. This was an unusual topic in 1960, and by all accounts, it is handled with maturity and sensitivity in the original film. In his music, Piccioni opts for a tragic mood, repeatedly drawing on the vein operatic melody to fuel the frustration of Mastroianni’s impotence. There is a gesture drawn from the aria "Vesti la Giubba" from Leoncavallo’s opera I Pagliacci that shows up time and time again, and while Piccioni attempts to sidestep the reference, it’s always there and you always know what it is. There are a few stray cues devoted to tango, quasi lounge music, and imitation jazz, as was needed for most Italian pictures in the early ’60s, but the vast majority of the disc is "a breath opening operatic breaches in the walls" in countless ways. The master recording is partly deteriorated, and in general, Il bell’Antonio just isn’t a lot of fun to listen to, so much of it is concentrated around such a one-note idea. However, it is exceptionally long for a Hexacord Dagored disc at 46 minutes, with 29 cues, which isn’t bad.

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