Cecilia Bartoli & Sol Gabetta: Dolce Duello - Limited Edition Pink Vinyl Edition - Decca: 4832470 - 2 Vinyl Records

Bartoli and cellist Sol Gabetta make for valiant duelling partners who converse, parry and riposte in spirited combat. Bartoli is velvet-toned, vivacious and voluptuous as ever. Her diction is... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Nov 2017
Catalogue No: 4832470
Label: Decca

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Cecilia Bartoli and Sol Gabetta – two of the most captivating women in classical music – are joining together for a new album ‘Dolce Duello’ to be released on Deutsche Grammophon on 10th November (CD and digital) and 24th November (2LP and 2LP pink). It is a collection of Baroque masterpieces which showcase the stunning combination of voice and cello in a series of dazzling duels and wondrous arias. To coincide with the release, Bartoli and Gabetta will be performing on a European tour with Cappella Gabetta and conductor and violinist Andrés Gabetta.

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February 2018

Bartoli and cellist Sol Gabetta make for valiant duelling partners who converse, parry and riposte in spirited combat. Bartoli is velvet-toned, vivacious and voluptuous as ever. Her diction is sharp as a sabre; attack and intonation are spot on target. Add to that a gamut of vocal timbres, colours and an expressive quiver and you have an intoxicating mix. Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta has an equally flawless technique.

January 2018

Bartoli is technically astonishing, rattling off coloratura with drill-like precision but wide-eyed joy and bags of personality. Gabetta’s cello is softer-grained (and occasionally a little backwardly placed), her playing nimble and responsive to Bartoli’s ornaments in a playful game of cat and mouse...Highly calorific Baroque fun.

10th November 2017

The performances are shot through with the same sense of effervescent, quirky camaraderie that’s on show in the booklet-photos: the emphasis is squarely on the ‘dolce’ part of the title rather than the ‘duello’, so that the atmosphere is one of congenial, collaborative music-making as opposed to the one-upmanship that often played out when castrati were pitted against trumpets in the gladiatorial arena of the opera-house.

16th November 2017

Gabetta’s light touch is the ideal foil for Bartoli’s expressive agility, whether the two of them are sparring in separate displays of virtuosity, weaving melancholy webs around each other, or hurtling along in parallel...everything gets supple support from the ensemble led by [Sol's] violinist brother.

Cecilia Bartoli & Sol Gabetta: Dolce Duello - Limited Edition Pink Vinyl Edition

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