[Thor Joachim Haga]

As I said earlier in the thread, Italian film music isn’t what it used to be, but for some reason, the type of consonant orchestral writing that was more common 30 years ago, still persists with surprising frequency over there, compared to other European countries. 63-year-old Stefano Caprioli is one such example, just like Pericle Odierna above. Currently listening to his wonderful, romantic LA FRECCIA NERA (2006) — “spotified” below — but there’s also the two TV series FURORE and I SEGRETI DI BORGO LARICI from 2014 that I think are really good.

I suppose there’s hope yet for Italian film music, although they will probably never reach the glory days of the 50s to the 80s once more. I sometimes wonder what happened.