His writing is given more to sentiments of a certain dispair, longing and self abtraction, beautiful arranged where strings take the lead after his always subtle melodic piano intros that reinforce intro crescentos to mold solid pieces of peaceful magic and charm. Born in Rome in 1937, after leaving his accounting career for more gratifing jobs playing the Piano for different artists in Rome, his luck took him to places like New York at a very early age, setting a whole learning experience on musicianship and writing towards his first score for The Bounty Killer in 1966, directed by Eugenio Martín.

 

Stelvio Cipriani is really a composer that should be placed among those that understand, perform and accomplish the quintessential spirit of ¨Romanticism¨ of the XIX century. yet a humble character of virtuoso writing, from tender airs of whispering rain to heavier and tensed tracks that coined the ¨poliziottesco¨ sound of a whole genre.

 

Due to his always deep yet open sense of human feeling, his music is somehow always resting under clear blue waters of a peaceful but thick lake of sound, he´s seemingly unlikly to warm into more up beating ¨shakes¨ or likely latin rhythms as Bossanova, his heart seems to be always loyal to the construction of depth and character to set the perfect scene on film scoring.

 

Enjoy

The very best of Stelvio Cipriani