Album Notes

This CD features a collection of the most beautiful songs by Italian composer Paolo Tosti who composed over 350 songs in Italian, French, English and the Neapolitan dialect. Tosti’s songs have a distinctive quality, featuring beautiful melodic phrases together with a deceptively simple elegance. One element that links them all is his inspired choice of poetic text. Perhaps more than any other composer of the era, his songs are distinguished by a finer quality of literary works. Tosti's work is centered around a single, universal and unifying theme, that of love.
Maltese soprano Gillian Zammit studied in Italy with Carlo Bergonzi and Victoria de los Angeles and is a versatile performer with an operatic repertoire that ranges from Baroque to 20th century opera. Roles include Semele, Tales of Hoffmann, Gianni Schicchi, Hansel and Gretel, Die Zauberflote and Rigoletto which gained her glowing reviews from OPERA magazine.Gillian is also highly regarded as a recital singer with a varied repertoire of Lieder, Spanish, French and Italian song, as well as being a respected exponent of Maltese Baroque music of which she has recorded several CD's. She has performed in Germany, US, France, London, and Romania and has collaborated with many notable artists including Joseph Calleja.