Digital Booklet

Anyone Can Whistle: A Sondheim Journey

This album began without a clear plan. I had started arranging a few Stephen Sondheim songs for a small theatre project that never came to life, and the music simply stayed with me. Listening back later to those early sketches, I was struck by how naturally they had emerged, and how different they felt from the music I was used to writing.

Although Stephen Sondheim’s world often felt far from mine, I found deep familiarity in his writing: the humor, the contradictions, and the fragile ways people try to love and understand one another. These are love songs, but never simple ones—each holding more than one truth at once.

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For many years, my work as a composer lived mostly behind the scenes, shaped by the needs of films, games, and productions. This project was different: there was no brief to follow, only curiosity. As the music grew, I felt the desire to invite friends and musicians I admire to become part of it, turning what began as a personal exploration into a shared experience.

As the arrangements seemed to evolve on their own, the album became a journey rather than a collection of tracks. I began thinking of it as a listening experience with its own arc, where songs speak to one another and unfold like chapters in a story. My hope is that, heard from beginning to end, it feels less like a series of performances and more like a story—a journey you can step into and travel through for a while.

Streaming & listening

Keep the main album destinations here. The track section below uses embedded Spotify players where available.

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Portraits

Additional photographs can live here as part of the booklet experience, making it feel more like a miniature visual world than a static notes page.

Laurent Ziliani portrait in black suit and red tie

Photo by David Slatin

Photo by David Slatin

Photo by David Slatin

Track by track

The first two tracks below now use Spotify embeds directly in the booklet. The remaining tracks can be updated the same way once their embed codes are added.