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Name the tune

  • 08-11-2005 3:00pm
    #1
    Townlad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭


    Hi peep...the movie Shawshank Redemption ..there is the sene where he playes this old record over the PA system in the prision...two italian ladies singing away....do any of yee folk no who these 2 ladies were...was a class tune and would love to get it...cheers for any help....


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  • #2
    440Hz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    It is from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, called the Sull' Aria and the movie version is by The Berlin Opera/Karl Bohm. Also known as the Letter Duet

    You can listen here: http://www.cduniverse.com/soundsample.asp?PID=1089332&cart=283727143&se=9&P=W&ram=us%2Fuswm2%2F205%2F167205%5F1%5F16%2Easx%3Fobj%3Dv40706

    Best bet to throw the name into google and you should get plenty of Mozart compilations that have it.


  • #3
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    I would guess that it's the version from the late 60s* where Gundula Janowitz plays the countess and Edith Mathis plays Susanna. The Bohm version tends to be regarded as one of the finest recordings of Figaro but it's picked up reasonable criticism for being rather slower in tempo than other versions, and especially for what was written as a comic opera. Basically it lacks bounce but but it depends if you like bounce I suppose. Assuming it's the version I reckon it is (the Shawshank soundtrack unfortunately doesn't tell us as I just poked it out to look, it's track 16 on that by the way) you'll be unlikely to find a more beautiful version as everyone else recorded it a little faster.


    *yes, I realise much of the movie is set earlier in time. Bohm did a pre-WW2 recording as well but with a different orchestra so it can't be that one.


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