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The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) is a double live album by the British neo-prog band Marillion.It was named after the introductory piece of classical music the band used before coming on stage during the Clutching at Straws tour 1987–1988, the overture to Rossini's opera La gazza ladra, which translates as "The Thieving Magpie".
The Thieving Magpie is best known for the overture, which is musically notable for its use of snare drums. This memorable section in Rossini's overture evokes the image of the opera's main subject: a devilishly clever, thieving magpie. Rossini wrote quickly, and La gazza ladra was no exception. A 19th-century biography quotes him as saying that ...
The second soundtrack album contains a synthesiser version of Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra" (The Thieving Magpie); the film contains an orchestral version. In 1998, a digitally-remastered album edition, with tracks of the synthesiser music was released.
"Title Music from A Clockwork Orange" 2:21: Based on Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary by Henry Purcell. "La Gazza Ladra" ("The Thieving Magpie", Abridged) (Gioachino Rossini) 5:50: Not actually commissioned for the movie, but inspired by the movie's use of the orchestral version. "Theme from A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana)" 1:44
La gazza ladra, an 1817 opera by Rossini; La gazza ladra, 1934 short by Corrado D'Errico; La gazza ladra (animated film) , 1964 Italian animated film about a "real" thieving magpie with soundtrack based on Rossini's opera; Thieving Magpie , 1848 novel by Alexander Herzen about a production of the French play in a Russian serf theatre; Thieving ...
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 27 Feb 2019 at 09:43:37 (UTC). Original – Combining the composer's name with tambour, (French for "drum") this lithograph by the French artist Paul Delaroche makes clear Rossini's European reputation as a creator of noise, with trumpet and drum accompanied by a magpie (La gazza ladra), an oriental type (Otello or ...
Clutching at Straws is the fourth studio album by the British neo-prog band Marillion, released on June 22, 1987. [1] It was the last album with lead singer Fish, who left the band in 1988, and is a concept album.
Castafiore leaves for Milan to perform in the opera La gazza ladra (Italian: The Thieving Magpie). Tintin realises that the true culprit responsible for the theft of the emerald and the scissors is a magpie. He explains to Haddock that the scissors must have fallen out of the nest only to be found by Miarka.