The Enduring Appeal of Italian Composersâ Dramatic âLibrary Musicâ
Compositions made from the 1960s through the â80s to soundtrack films and ads have found new homes on hip-hop tracks and compilations. New artists have been inspired, too.
The record collector Lorenzo Fabrizi, who runs the label Sonor Music Editions, discovered a warehouse of albums containing library music in 2011.Credit.Sonor Music Editions
June 9, 2021Updated 5:23 p.m. ET
One day in the summer of 2011, Lorenzo Fabrizi rode with a friend to an abandoned warehouse far outside of Rome. The custodian of the building, who said he had bought it for around $100, let them inside to look at its contents: 10,000 vinyl LPs, by Fabriziâs estimate. They were welcome to take as many they wanted, the owner said; he was brewing beer in the space and had no use for them.
The Doctor is in. Mark Kermode broadcaster, critic, world leading authority on
The Exorcist, and owner of the best quiff in show business is also a massive fan of, and expert on, movie soundtracks. And he’s bringing that expertise to a brand-new column in
Empire, starting with our May issue (on sale March 18 in all good and evil newsagents). The column, an expansion of Kermode’s weekly soundtrack show on Scala Radio, will see him put together a very special playlist every month. We caught up with him recently to witter about entertainment of the audio variety.
Tell us about the monthly playlist you’re putting together for Empire readers, Mark.
He said: “She was an avid fan of Michael Jackson and then Ed Sheehan.
“She fell in love with the music of our friend Celine Dion and currently we are re-discovering Abba’s repertoire from Mamma Mia to Dancing Queen.
“Virginia is also a fan of Lang Lang the piano player, and listens to him for hours, with a particular fondness for Paganini-Liszt’s The Bell.”
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Asked if his son Matteo joins in when at home, Bocelli replied: “It happens a lot, yes. Matteo hasn’t been with us lately, as he has spent a few weeks working in Australia.