Pietro Mascagni’s single work for the early days of cinema was composed in winter time 1914/15. The idea of the film director Nino Oxilia was to create a 'Poema cine-musicale', a synthesis of the arts with music, poetry and finally cinematography. The plot is something like a female version of 'Faust', based on a poetry by Fausto Maria Martini. Mascagni himself conducted the first performance in July 1917 and orientated his composition towards Richard Wagner's musical language. The French-German TV channel Arte restored this treasure of early cinema in 2006 and recorded the complete film music score.
“Strobel has a real sense of the music's grand passions, and his Ludwigshafen-based orchestra is impressive, too, with plenty of glamour in the woodwind and appropriately lush strings. You'll like it if you like Mascagni's operas.” Grammophone
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