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Domingo con Lecuona: Combinacion maravillosa!

Latin Music Lover | Arlington, VA USA | 02/03/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Glorious combination: Ernesto Lecuona and Placido Domingo!
Ernesto Lecuona was a virtuoso pianist and a composer of both classical and popular music. He wrote compositions for piano, opera, zarzuela (Spanish light opera), movie scores, and popular songs. He incorporated the rhythms of Cuban popular song (including afro-cuban) into his music. Placido Domingo and the Royal Philharmonic Orquestra provide a wonderful introduction to Lecuona's music. Songs like "Siboney," and "Malaguena" are standards in the repertoire of opera singers and require great voices to do them justice. "Maria la O" is from Lecuona's zarzuela of the same name. The songs on this CD are gorgeous, Placido Domingo sings them beautifully, and the accompaniment is wonderful. The two songs with more pronounced afro-cuban rhythms--"Canto Karabali" and "La comparsa"--are less suited to this kind of production, but the other 9 songs are so wonderful, I can overlook this. A real bonus--this CD includes liner notes and complete lyrics in Spanish, with translations into English, French and German."

Gran album y gran señor.

Albatros | México | 03/29/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Un super album de Domingo, para los amantes de la musica de Ernesto Lecuaona con sus mejores temas un gran disco para el romance."

Cuban Girl

Cuban Girl | 10/22/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"To listen to Placido singing Lecuona is like going back to my youth in Havana. "The Master sung by the Master." What a combination!!! I now enjoy singing in my car the songs I grew up loving. My husband used to say to me; "You can take the girl out of Cuba, but you cannot take Cuba out of the girl.""