So I just recorded a podcast on Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo (The Divinity), about Giulio Andreotti (hence the pun Divo Giulio, the apotheosized Caesar). Andreotti was the major politician of post-WWII Italy, before Berlusconi: With him a republic fell... Podcast soon—music from the soundtrack for now.
The Fauré pavane above is one of the delights of the soundtrack:
A pavane is a courtly dance, in procession, Renaissance-Baroque; like other dances, it eventually turned into a structure for music even though nobody danced it anymore. Then, in the Historical era, it came back, as so many memories of the aristocratic era did. Here's one composed & played by Enescu:
Another turn of the century pavane, this one rather more famous, by Ravel, who studied with Fauré. Part of the modernity of the Historical era, of course, is technological innovation, so that you can find recordings by Ravel, Enescu, &c. Usually helps to compare with musicians today...
Watch Il Divo, it's a very cool movie. It’s full of all the modern tricks Sorrentino employs to get people to care about an old man at the end of his career: Scorsese music-montages, Dutch angles, cutting on movement to create a rhythm, suspense… But besides all that cinematic beauty, it's a very good study, novelistic, of character & of the nation.
I’ll leave you with the opening scene: