DOLCE VITA
French and Italian songs and chansons
(1932-1956)

THE THIRTIES

1 Parlami d’amore Mariù 3:47
Cesare Andrea Bixio (music) & Ennio Neri (lyrics)
from the Italian film Gli uomini che mascalzoni (1932)

2 Une fois rien qu’une fois 3:31
Ralph Benatzky (music) & Lucien Besnard et René Dorin (French lyrics)
Duet from the operetta L’auberge du Cheval Blanc (1932)

3 Firenze sogna (1939) 4:43
Cesare Cesarini (music & lyrics)

4 Puisque vous partez en voyage (1935) 4:22
Mireille (music) & Jean Nohain (lyrics)

5 Ba-ba-Baciami piccina 2:33
Luigi Astore (music) & Riccardo Morbelli (lyrics)
from the Italian film Una famiglia impossibile (1940)

PARIS

6 Acapulco 2:50
Francis Lopez (music) & Raymond Vincy (lyrics)
from the French musical Le Chanteur de Mexico (1951)

7 Sous le ciel de Paris 3:30
Hubert Giroud (music) & Jean Dréjac (lyrics)
from the film Sous le ciel de Paris (1951)

8 Un bacio a mezzanotte 4:20
Gorni Kramer (music) & Pietro Garinei / Sandro Giovannini (lyrics)
from the revue Gran Baraonda (1952)

9 Quand on est deux amis 2:13
Francis Lopez (music) & Raymond Vincy (lyrics)
from the musical Le Chanteur de Mexico (1951)

10 I Love Paris 2:49
11 C’est magnifique 1:18
Cole Porter (music & lyrics)
from the musical comedy Can-Can (1953)

ITALY

12 Mambo italiano (1954) 3:24
Bob Merrill (music) & Gian Carlo Testoni / Gaspare Abbate (lyrics)

13 Arrivederci Roma (1955) 3:13
Renato Rascel (music) & Pietro Garinei / Sandro Giovannini (lyrics)

14 Tu vo’ fa l’americano (1956) 1:53
Renato Carosone (music) & Nicola Salerno (lyrics)

15 Come prima (1955) 3:55
Vincenzo Di Paola / Sandro Taccani (music) & Mario Panzeri (lyrics)

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About this album

In this album, the tenor Marco Angioloni pays homage to his two homelands Italy and France with a selection of pieces and songs that grasp the essence of the 20th century, from the period between the two wars to the 1950s. It brings together a repertoire from the operetta aria to classical and popular songs.

“Each of these pieces resonates in my ears: I can still hear my mother and my grandmother humming them, in our Italian family fascinated by Paris. This selection reveals the great variety of styles and tastes of the period, from the supercharged ambiance of cabarets to the intimacy of Italian salons. Follow me through the narrow streets where colorful laundry is hung at the window, and onto the squares where the aroma of hot croissants wafts early in the morning – into the bustling atmosphere of my two countries.” (Marco Angioloni)