Discography
SOL & PAT
Alpha Classics
October 2021
This album celebrates a musical rapport that has lasted for twenty years and, above all, a true friendship: ‘We’re like two sisters, on stage and in life’, as Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta like to say. In parallel with their dazzling solo careers, they have frequently got together for concerts in trio or double concerto formation (like the one written for them by Francisco Coll, recently released on ALPHA580). But they have conceived their new recording for a rather rare combination, the violin-cello duo – with the aim of choosing pieces they found interesting either stylistically or for the way they use the instruments. The programme includes the Duo written by Zoltán Kodály in 1914, which was not premiered until 1924, two years after Maurice Ravel’s Sonata for violin and cello, along with a few forays into the Baroque period (Leclair, Scarlatti, Bach) and, of course, works by twenty-first-century composers to whom the two soloists are very close: Jörg Widmann, Francisco Coll and Julien-François Zbinden are on the itinerary of this introspective journey into the generous world of two total artists.
Telegraph:
"Altogether this new CD is a delight, and suggests that “Sol & Pat” is destined to become one of classical music’s most sellable brands.”
"It’s a brilliant pairing, as they are the young(ish) female superstars of their respective instruments, and already have a reputation for performances of blazing individuality."
"the meeting of musical minds seems total, with a wonderful combination of discipline and freedom"
"One hopes the combination will be like apples and cheese, i.e. even more flavoursome in combination than when sampled separately. "
Limelight Magazine:
"Seldom have two idiosyncratic talents combined with such wit and artistry as violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and cellist Sol Gabetta, long-time collaborators on the concert platform and friends off-stage, produce in this effervescent exercise in musical acrobatics.”
"Quixotic, though it is, Sol & Pat is also a vivid display of fireworks and finesse from a crisply recorded duo keenly responsive to each other. Would that all duo performances had this same balance of acumen and adrenaline."
Schumann
Sony Classical
November 2018
Nur wenige Cellisten schaffen es, ihr Instrument zum Singen zu bringen, also, wirklich zum Singen. Sol Gabetta ist eine Meisterin darin: Ihre Schumann-Interpretation singt von der allerersten Note an, man kann gar nicht anders als mitgehen, mitfühlen… Das gilt für ihre hervorragende Einspielung des a-Moll-Cellokonzertes mit dem Kammerorchester Basel (Ltg.: Giovanni Antonini) und fast mehr noch für verschiedene Kammermusikstücke Robert Schumanns, die sie mit dem ihr sehr vertrauten Pianisten Bertrand Chamayou aufgenommen hat. (HR 2 Musiktipp 03.12.2018)
Cecilia & Sol – DOLCE DUELLO – A delectable collection of Baroque arias for voice and cello
Decca Classics:
November 2017
Unwiderstehlich - Das Album "Dolce Duello" von Bartoli und Gabetta gleicht einem sinnlichen Feuerwerk
Ganz unabhängig voneinander sprühen Cecilia Bartoli und Sol Gabetta vor Esprit und musikalischer Leidenschaft. Im Zusammenspiel für ihr gemeinsames Projekt "Dolce Duello" wird die geballte Wucht aus Talent und Charme zu einer überwältigenden Mischung. [...]
"Dolce Duello" transportiert in jeder Sekunde die Faszination der barocken Lebensart, sich lustvoll an den üppigen Reizen des Schönen zu erfreuen. Die Musikerinnen spornen sich dabei gegenseitig zu virtuosen Höchstleistungen an und lassen die bekannten Arien in ganz neuem Glanz erstrahlen. Ihre mitreißende Spielfreude überträgt sich im Nu und lässt das "süße Duell" zu einer köstlichen Sinnesfreude werden."
(Klassik Akzente 8.11.2017)
SOL GABETTA || LIVE – BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
Sony Classical
November 2016
March 17
"This is Gabetta’s second recording of Elgar’s elegiac concerto, live from the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in 2014, and the acoustics are rich, warm and magnificent. Gabetta’s masterful reading is characterised by her trademark ‘singing’ tone; intense lyricism with just the right balance of languid restraint. [...] It’s [Bohuslav Martinu’s First Cello Concerto] a fabulously interesting work, with a stunning lyrical second movement that explodes in bursts of passionate intensity and is an excellent complement for the Elgar. Hopefully Gabetta’s recording will provide impetus for others, as there are only a handful currently in print. But for now, these new recordings of two significant cello concerti are not to be missed."
(Limelight, 31.03.2017)
Februar 17
"Gabetta's second recording of the Elgar is a big-boned account, vibrant and intense, with richly textured support from Rattle: some listeners may crave a more restrained approach, although there is no denying the power of show. Unequivocally fine, though, is Gabetta's Martinu: the emotional heart of the first concerto lies in its expansive slow movement, to which she responds with true depth of feeling. Good live sound."
(classicalmusicamagazine.org)
November 16
[...] "But her tempo is immediately convincing and musically coherent. It pays off with a transcendent pair of inner movements in which beauty is never defeated by melancholy, and the tremors of an old man’s regrets are laid to rest with a blessing. [...] This is five-star music making, no doubt about it."
(Musical Toronto, 18.11.2016)
