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Nicole Cabell and Alyson Cambridge, acclaimed sopranos and close friends, record together for the first time on an album of opera duets by Mozart, Offenbach, Humperdinck, and Delibes and specially commissioned duet arrangements of classical songs, folk tunes, and African-American spirituals. Cabell, 2005 winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, is Incha faultlessly gleaming sopranoInch (Financial Times). Cambridge is Inchradiant, vocally assured... and artistically imaginativeInch (Washington Post), known for her Inchrevelatory, sensual, smoky readingsInch (Opera News). Joining them in the InchSoave sia il ventoInch trio from Mozart's Così fan tutte is the Inchmellow-voiced and charismaticInch (New York Times) baritone Will Liverman. They're accompanied on their Cedille debut by the Lake Forest Symphony under 2015 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award winner Vladimir Kulenovic. Inspired by opera stars Kathleen Battle & Jessye Norman's spirituals recording from the early 1990s, the sopranos describe their album as a Inchdream projectInch that's Inchuniquely us,Inch reflecting their multi-ethnic heritages and showcasing songs that profoundly influenced them both. Composer-arranger Joe Clark, whose music has been performed by Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, and jazz singer Kurt Elling, among other classical, jazz, and pop artists, created arrangements expressly for Cabell and Cambridge's distinctive voices.
