Silva Screen Records release The Godfather Suite (50th Anniversary) on CD and as a digital release. This album is the first recording to bring together music from Francis Coppola’s The Godfather and The Godfather Part II films in this way. Its original release coincided with a high-profile television event called The Godfather: A Novel for Television (also known as The Godfather Saga). The seven-hour chronological edit of the two films, with no flashback, premiered on NBC in November 1977 and ran across four episodes...

The extended cut of The Godfather: A Novel for Television featured additional music and arrangements, which were overseen by Carmine Coppola. Coppola selected and re-arranged musical highlights from the two films, including all of Nino Rota’s main themes and his own source music pieces, creating what is essentially a 14-part symphonic suite.

For those that have the Godfather soundtracks, this release represents a whole new dimension to themes you know and love. Given that this is a 50 year old recording Silva Screen Records have done a wonderful job of presenting a fresh and crisp release whilst staying true to the original production recordings. So it's a wonderfully clear recording but has that limited stereo effect of a bygone era where everything sounds just a little bit flat.

A wonderful release of an exceptional recording.

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Darren Rea