Various Artists - Sol & PatThis 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

Nothing is new or exciting

Hailing from North Carolina

and is an entertaining showcase for a highly distinctive artist

he was also a notable composer and artist in his own right and released a number of successful albums under his own name

You and Me: A Peking Opera

a swinging couple and his wife plot revenge

Mozart y Mambo - Cuban Dances is full of magic

In this re-release of the 2014 album

Sharing the stage

He taught at the Prague Conservatory

using only a string band

and became one of the focuses for the massive folk revival of that time