The Magic of Christmas – Quartetto Gelato
The Magic of Christmas (out worldwide November 7) is a 13-track collection of classic and timeless holiday songs set to lush arrangements that spark the festive spirit within. A perfect musical backdrop to the festive season that is just around the corner, The Magic of Christmas paints whimsical interpretations by Quartetto Gelato, the quartette that has become revered asCanada's most avant-garde classical group of the past decade.
Musica Latina
In 2009 Quartetto Gelato will release “Musica Latina”, a hot new sound and style with the sensational addition of percussion to QG’s mix of instrumentals and songs. The cd includes Argentinian Tangos, Peruvian folk songs, Mexican ballads and some spicy Cuban favourites that will leave the audience screaming for more! Quartetto Gelato has never sounded better and Peter’s voice is perfectly suited for the heat of this Latin flavour.
1. Flor De La Canela 
2. Solamente Una Vez
Favourite Flavours
QG looks back at ten years of performance and recording with this popular CD representing audience favourites such as Tango Del Mare, Al di la, and O Sole Mio. This is all about the sheer fun of making music – exuberance, high energy, and humour – combined with awesome technique. Still, all that skill never gets in the way, never obscures the fact that above all, what’s in the package, on this disc is a huge love of a good tune.
1. Piazzolla - Ave Maria -
Tanti Anni Prima
2. Rondine Al Nido
Quartetto Gelato travels the Orient Express
“It’s got to be the year’s most fun journey – from London by way of Flanders & Swann’s gentle little Slow Train, to Paris, Munich, Budapest, Vienna, Bucharest and ending up at a wide-eyed wonder of a Turkish Circus, in Istanbul. It’s mostly familiar music but it isn’t always familiarly packaged. For instance, did you know there was a vocal to the Rigaudon in Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin? I didn’t either, but Peter DeSotto does – and sings it with the high-mountain exuberance of a Swiss yodeler! The whole lot is a fabulous ride but I do confess a certain awestruck delight at the Turkish Circus. Thank goodness there’s a cool-down Danny Boy as a bonus track right after.
1. Paris - Tombeau De Couperin -
Prelude
2. Danny Boy
Neapolitan Café
Red tomato sauce is what you will crave as QG returns to its roots with this clearly Italian album. Neapolitan folk songs, Mazurkas, and Cynthia Steljes – the pyrotechnical oboe wiz has her way with Ponchielli.
1. Salerno - Tango del Mare
Aria Fresca
A breath of fresh air as the title suggests. QG goes to the opera with this winner finishing with no less than the Toronto Symphony and QG accompanying Peter De Sotto in his thrilling rendition of Nessun Dorma from Puccini’s Turandot.
1. Turandot Prelude And
Aria Nessun Dora
Rustic Chivalry
From sullen and moody to joyful virtuosity the range of emotion in this album is truly a tribute to the composers. From the intimate treatment of Mascagni’s “Cavaleria Rusticana”, to the unbridled Monti’s Czardas, along with the brilliant violin, cello duet, “Handel Halvorsen’s Passicaglia”.
1. Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana - Intermezzo
2. lara - Granada
Quartetto Gelato
This is QG’s first cd with some of their most popular repertoire such as Danny Boy and O Sole Mio. QG’s O Sole Mio and J.C. Bach’s Quartet in B flat were used on Norman Jewison’s Hollywood blockbuster “Only You,” starring Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr.
1. Chitarra Romana