Tosti: Romanze [Import]

Lucio Gallo (Performer), Paolo Tosti (Composer), Erik Battaglia (Performer), Nuccia Focile (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Lucio Gallo, Erik Battaglia, Nuccia Focile
• Composer: Paolo Tosti
• Audio CD (September 28, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Fonit Cetra
• ASIN: B00049QKUG
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #466,848 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Due Piccoli Notturni, for voice & piano: Van li effluvi de la rose

2. Due Piccoli Notturni, for voice & piano: O falce di luna calante

3. Ninon

4. Rêve

5. Chanson de l'adieu, for voice & piano (or orchestra)

6. Rosa

7. Malia for voice & piano/orchestra

8. Aprile for voice & piano (or orchestra)

9. Ideale for voice & piano (or orchestra)

10. Non t'amo più, for voice & piano/orchestra

11. Ninna Nanna

12. L'Alba separa dalla luce l'ombra, for voice & piano (or orchestra)

13. A vucchella ('Arietta di Posilippo') for voice & piano (or orchestra)

14. Come to My Heart!, for voice & piano or orchestra, C.S. 41B

15. Marechiare, for voice & piano (or orchestra)

16. Vorrei morir for voice & piano/orchestra

17. L'Ultima Canzone for voice & piano/orchestra

18. Luna d'estate, for voice & piano/orchestra

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars IL MIGLIORE!!!! BEL CANTO!!!, October 18, 2011

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David S. Baumgartner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tosti: Romanze (Audio CD)

Every so often one finds a "gem of purest ray serene". I have many, many Tosti CDs but this one is absolutely the best - Il Migliore. In this 1991 recording with excellent sound, Soprano, Nuccia Focile, and baritone, Lucio Gallo, (both Italian, of course) lingeringly and lovingly caress some of his justifiably most famous songs with a gentleness, an exquisite and unforced beauty and purity of tone and with an expressively interpretative tender and deep meaning to the songs' words that I have not discovered in other singers. Both singers know how to paint musical pictures through their clarity of texture and text and their lovely voices and the fact that they eschew the optional high notes in no way detracts from the listener's joy. The piano accompaniment fittingly complements the singers with moving and subtle underscoring and flowing support. Texts are printed in the language of the songs - Italian and French only - without English translations, bios are in Italian but there is an essay in both - "On Interpreting Tosti". I rarely find Tosti songs so perfectly rendered and I give this CD the highest and most enthusiastic recommendation for those who appreciate and enjoy Tosti's songs. Canto Bellissimo. Che Gioia!!!