Sunday 7 August 2011
Tune of the Day: Ideale
by F. Paolo Tosti, arranged for flute and piano
Although they were on every singer's lips during the first years of the twentieth century, most of Italian-British composer Francesco Paolo Tosti's songs have since fallen by the wayside. Only a handful of greatest hits, like “Ideale”, have had much sustained popularity. In the original version of this song, the singer describes in romantic terms how he followed an ideal, whether a woman or something more abstract, and begs the ideal to return, “and in your image, a new dawn will shine upon me”.