Riz Ortolani - Festa di laurea (Original Soundtrack) (2026) [Hi-Res]

Festa di laurea — internationally known as Graduation Party — is a 1985 Italian drama directed by Pupi Avati, set in the Romagna countryside of 1950. The film follows a modest baker who undertakes the impossible task of organizing a graduation celebration for the daughter of a bourgeois socialite, driven by a decades-old infatuation. Avati's signature blend of nostalgia, gentle irony, and pastoral post-war atmosphere sets the emotional tone that Riz Ortolani's music faithfully mirrors.
The score earned Ortolani a Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Film Music. Rather than the genre spectacle associated with his mondo and giallo work, the soundtrack reveals the composer's more intimate side: a central theme elaborated across orchestral variations — for strings, for clarinet, for piano — alongside jazz-inflected passages (Swing, Lento Americano) that trace back to Ortolani's formative years as a jazz musician. The 2026 reissue by Cam Sugar and UME continues the label's ongoing mission to restore and preserve Italy's cinematic music heritage from its original master archives.

Tracklist:
1-1 Riz Ortolani - Festa di laurea (Tema) [2:23]
1-2 Riz Ortolani - Festa di laurea (Tema senza introduzione) [2:21]
1-3 Riz Ortolani - Festa di laurea (Tema per archi) [4:33]
1-4 Riz Ortolani - Festa di laurea (Tema per clarino) [2:11]
1-5 Riz Ortolani - Festa di laurea (Tema per clarino #2) [2:12]
1-6 Riz Ortolani - Festa di laurea (Tema per pianoforte) [1:50]
1-7 Riz Ortolani - Festa di laurea (Lento Americano) [1:47]
1-8 Riz Ortolani - Festa di laurea (Lento Americano senza ritmi) [2:03]
1-9 Riz Ortolani - Festa di laurea (Swing) [2:44]
1-10 Riz Ortolani - Festa di laurea (Tema con ritmica) [2:11]