La dolce vita, La strada, The Godfather: when Nino Rota died in 1979 at the age of 68, the world remembered him above all for his more than 150 film scores. But Rota's oeuvre is much larger and more varied: it includes over a dozen operas, oratorios, symphonies, chamber music works and concertos. On the 40th anniversary of her death, harp virtuoso Anneleen Lenaerts illuminates the magnificent music Rota left behind for her instrument - including a harp concerto and a sonata for flute and harp. She is joined by another highly prominent soloist, flutist Emmanuel Pahud. The Belgian Annegret Lenaerts has already shown with several albums which expressive possibilities lie in her instrument. She has also made a name for herself as a discoverer - for example with the 1944 concerto by her compatriot Joseph Jongen. Her appreciation of the harp works of Nino Rota can also be described as a pioneering act. By juxtaposing the original works with three newly arranged concert fantasies on themes from the most famous film scores, she creates a great musical portrait of the master on the anniversary of his death. Rota's career as a film composer, in addition to his purely classical works, was due to his unbridled creative energy. However, it also meant that the composer was long denied an appropriate place in the official classical canon - unjustly, as Anneleen Lenaerts shows.