Explorer of notes: Dario Marianelli and "Anna Karenina"
Exclusive interview with Academy Award-winning Italian composer
Dario Marianelli is probably the current film composer who best represents the glorious Italian film music heritage on the international scene. It's not a coincidence if local newspapers and journalists have already saluted him as the "new Ennio Morricone". The honorable title was tacked onto many Italian film composers several times, to the point of becoming almost a too heavy burden. However, going beyond such easy labeling, Marianelli seems in fact the only current Italian film composer to have found a real international dimension comparable to Ennio Morricone and also to that of Nino Rota or Mario Nascimbene. The curious thing is that Marianelli, unlike his predecessors, nurtured his talent and took his very first steps into the film scoring world well outside the Italian borders (he moved to London in 1990 and lives there since then).
The success and awards conquered since his big outbreak in 2005 – he won the Academy Award in 2007 for Joe Wright's adaptation of Atonement – encouraged and stimulated the brilliant creativity of the composer, who wrote some impressive scores distinguished by unique dramatic flair (the phenomenal "deconstruction" of Beethoven's music in The Soloist, once again directed by Joe Wright) and very unconventional lyricism (as in the liquid, ''foggy'' melodies of the recent adaptation of Jane Eyre starring Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska). Marianelli is very careful never to fall into easy temptations of predictable symphonic stylings, but also in those of the diatonic minimalism so much in vogue in film music of today.
Marianelli defines himself first and foremost a partner, a collaborator and especially an ally of the filmmakers. He's conscious of his role in service of the film, but he doesn't sacrifice being a full-rounded musician, as evidenced by the exceptional score of Anna Karenina, once again reuniting with director Joe Wright and for which he received his third Oscar nomination. In this exclusive interview for ColonneSonore.net, Dario talks about his work for this adaptation of Tolstoy's great classic, his relationship with director Joe Wright and his life as a film composer.









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