Initials of Commissioner Ricciardi 2
What is the new theme song of Commissioner Ricciardi 2 season? Debuts Monday 6 March 2023 in prime time on Rai 1 the second eagerly awaited chapter of the Rai fiction halfway between detective story e mystery taken from the novels of Maurice de Giovanni published by Giulio Einaudi Editore.
“Fever” is the title of the first episode which opens and closes with the music published by Rai Comedited by Nicholas Tescari and performed by the orchestra of the Abruzzo symphonic institution. Then the sweet melody of “May is gone” Of Pine Daniel that opened and closed the episodes of the first season, now Commissioner Ricciardi 2 start with the note from “The commissioner“, piece performed by maestro Nicola Tescari.
The new theme song thus takes us back to the dark Naples of the 1930s, the one where a mysterious and tormented man wanders around all alone wrapped up in his trench coat. He is the commissioner Luigi Alfredo Ricciardimelancholic and charming protagonist played by Pillow linen.
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May goes by Pino Daniele
In the first season the song which opened and closed each episode of Commissioner Ricciardi was the aforementionedMay goes“, last track on the disc Beautiful ‘mbrian of 1982 of Pine Daniel. The piece has been adapted by the musician and composer Pasquale Catalano, winner of a Golden Grail for Best Score for the film The consequences of love directed by Paolo Sorrentino.
The choice of May goes as a leitmotif of the fiction it is not at all casual, given that the text we hear has the aim of uniting the human imagination to that religious, two phenomena those of love and faith often inexplicable. What is incomprehensible is precisely the phenomena experienced by the protagonist of this story. Ricciardi has in fact the ability to see the last moment of a person’s life, thus perceiving all of his pain.
“I hear the scream that accompanies the fall into the abyss. What I feel is the last bit of life, not the first of death.” and Meeting with Ricciardi all’interno de The sense of pain by Maurizio de Giovanni. Maybe that’s why painful gift that the soundtrack of the fiction directed by Alessandro D’Alatri is it really the iconic piece by Pino Daniele?
Music by Il Commissario Ricciardi
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After discovering the acronym de Commissioner Ricciardi 2, let’s not forget the many music quotes also present in de Giovanni’s novels. The author, in fact, likes to bring songs always in perfect harmony with the somewhat gloomy and introverted character of its protagonist. There are at least five stories where we find Neapolitan songs never inserted by chance. For example in the story Glass souls the song chosen by the author is Palomma is night by Salvatore di Giacomo.
In the tale Unnamed serenade, instead, it’s the song Voice ‘and night to accompany Commissioner Ricciardi. Inside Winter Swallows we even find three songs like So?, famous Neapolitan comic piece then joined by Rundinella e Scythe Finally, let us remember The cry of dawn, book that concludes the story of Commissioner Ricciardi. Here Maurizio de Giovanni mentions two masterpieces that are ideal for an epilogue in grand style: All for me of Lina sastri e ‘And cancer relaunched by Massimo Ranieri. Returning instead to fiction, what are the quotes in the first episode of Commissioner Ricciardi?
Rustic Cavalry

The first episode of Rai fiction opened inside the prestigious San Carlos Theater of Naples. Right there, just before the de performance The Clowns (libretto and music by Ruggero Leoncavallo 1892), the body of the great tenor was found Arnaldo Vezzi. As Don Pierino later explains, interpreted in the fiction by Pepe Servilloin the theater it was customary to represent the opera de The Clowns together with Rustic Cavalry by Pietro Mascagni from 1890, both short works.
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Therefore, before the heinous crime, the tenor was already ready to take on the part of Compare Turiddo, the soprano in the role of Santuzza and the baritone in that of Compar Alfio. Two stories, those of Rustic Cavalry it’s from The Clowns, that speak of great loves, pride and jealousy. Elements that ultimately clarify the nature of the relationship between music e Maurice de Giovanni: always and only a fact of passion.
“O Father Eternal is not a merchant ca pava o’ sabbato” it is then the piece that the Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio composes inspired by the novels of the writer Maurizio de Giovanni. “God is not a merchant who pays on the Sabbath”, translated from the Neapolitan, it is in fact a particular composition that adapts perfectly to the mysterious and fascist settings present in the novels starring the Commissioner Ricciardi.