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Cecilia Bartoli and Sol Gabetta

Dolce Duello: Baroque arias for voice and cello

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The one-of-a-kind mezzo-soprano in an evening alongside the cellist Sol Gabetta.

Critics have acclaimed Cecilia Bartoli's 'over-the-top sense of spectacle' (Bachtrack). Now pair her with dazzling Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta, and an evening of Baroque arias becomes a sonic firework display.

Tagged with: Classical music Barbican Presents 2017–18

Programme

  • Hasse   Overture from Il Ciro riconosciuto
  • Caldara   ‘Fortuna e speranza’ from Nitocri
  • Albinoni   ‘Aure andate e baciate’ from Il nascimento dell’Aurora
  • Gabrielli   ‘Aure voi de’miei sospiri’ from San Sigismondo, re di Borgogna
  • Pollarolo   Overture from Ariodante
  • Handel   ‘Lascia la spina cogli la rosa’ from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
  • Raupach   ‘O placido il mare’ from Siroe, re di Persia
  • Handel   ‘What passion cannot Music raise and quell!’ from Ode for St Cecilia’s Day
  • Boccherini   Cello Concerto No 10 in D major, G483
  • Gluck   ‘Dance of the Furies’ from Orfeo ed Euridice
  • Boccherini   ‘Se d’un amor tiranno’, G557

Performers

  • Cecilia Bartoli   mezzo-soprano
  • Sol Gabetta   cello
  • Cappella Gabetta  
  • Andrés Gabetta   concertmaster

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