Private Vices, Public Pleasures (Soundtrack CD)

Quartet Records presents expanded CD premiere of a rare, eccentric Francesco de Masi score written for the scandalous softcore film of noted Hungarian director Mikl\u00F3s Jancs\u00F3.\nVizi privati, pubbliche virt\u00F9 was Jancs\u00F3's fourth film in Italy and is quite unusual in the director's filmography. It tells the story of Crownprince Rudolf (Lajos Bal\u00E1zsovits), the son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph who committed suicide when he couldn't marry his love, Maria Vetsera. In Jancs\u00F3's interpretation, there's much more to the story: the young prince is a sexual rebel who challenges authority and was thus executed by the court. But before that happens, we get an extended orgy and a lengthy, almost 10-minute long lovemaking scene.\nOur program of Francesco de Masi's score actually begins with ''Dedicated to love'', the cue written for the climatic lovemaking scewne and is followed all the quirky bits that translate Rudolf's madness into music. Listeners could catch glim)