This recording has the aim to create a short but significant picture of Gian Carlo Menotti (Cadegliano-Viconago, 1911 – Monte Carlo, 2007): he was an Italian composer who then established himself in the USA. Most of all he was known in Italy for his 'Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi', but he was very famous in the USA for his very popular operas.

The CD presents one of his most renowned operas, The Telephone, which is performed by a very extraordinary cast. The other side of his work, a more intimate and hidden one, consists of a chamber-music production, that here is represented by the Trio.

Some interesting and previously unreleased solo piano pieces close the tribute to this composer who in the past was quite ignored in Europe, due to avantgarde predominance. Menotti still remains a very interesting composer to discover.