Nino Rota is deeply associated with music for film and perhaps particularly as Fellini’s creative soulmate. His music in Coppola’s The Godfather I and II has placed Nino Rota as one of the most prominent film composers in the history of cinema.

Rota’s music is a genre all on its own. It can perhaps be described as a kind of melancholic circus-like jazz with free excursions through time and space where the familiar meets the unknown. Through it all there is a deep sense of love and tradition for melody.

Rota and Fellini completed each other well in the portrayal of the tragicomical circumstance of the human condition.

La Strada is a quintet dedicated to playing the music of Nino Rota who’s music has forever positioned him as one of the greatest contributors of music for the cinema.

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