La Cita

Disc: 1

1. Amor Mío

2. Cien Años

3. Voy

4. Mundo Raro

5. Cita

6. De Que Manera Te Olvido

7. Noche de Anoche

8. Canta, Canta, Canta

9. Que Va

10. Mi Amigo el Tiempo

Disc: 2

1. Que Sabes Tu

2. Mulata

3. Si Dios Me Quita la Vida

4. Dame un Poco de Ti

5. Si Nos Dejan

6. Toda Una Vida

7. Que Has Hecho de Mi

8. Corriente

9. Franqueza

10. Cheque en Blanco

La Cita,Daniela Romo,Fonovisa Inc.,Latin,Pop,Tejano

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Average customer rating: Nice repertory and singing, but give the girl some castanets

Canciones Amatorias Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Dvorak: Lieder Brahms: Lieder Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben Canciones Argentinas Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs ASIN: B0000682WC Release Date: 2002-07-09

Tracks:

1. Granados: Descubrase el pensamiento
2. Granados: Mananica era
3. Granados: Llord, corazon, que teneis razon
4. Granados: Mira que soy nina
5. Granados: No lloreis, ojuelos
6. Granados: Iban al pinar
7. Granados: Gracia mia
8. Granados: Oh muerte cruel!
9. Granados: Ay! Majo de mi vida
10. Granados: De aquel majo amante
11. Rodrigo: Pastorcito santo
12. Rodrigo: Coplillas de Belen
13. Rodrigo: Por mayo era
14. Rodrigo: Adela
15. Rodrigo: Cancion del Duero
16. Nin: Asturiana
17. Nin: El pano murciano
18. Nin: El vito
19. Guastavino: La rosa y el sauce
20. Guastavino: Cita
21. Guastavino: La palomita
22. Ginastera: Cancion al arbol del olvido, Op. 3 No. 2
23. Ginastera: Chacarera
24. Ginastera: Triste
25. Ginastera: Zamba
26. Ginastera: Arrorro
27. Ginastera: Gato

Customer Reviews:

Nice repertory and singing, but give the girl some castanets.......2002-12-25

This recital was a mixed blessing. The program is well chosen. The music is exciting and alluring, accessible yet rare enough to be attractive to travelers along the byways of song. The performances are beautiful and thoughtful. Fink's tone is consistently attractive, her technique and ornamentation are impressive. But there are essential Spanish elements missing. Rhythms are not accented, with scarcely any rubato in evidence. She does not bite into her consonants or relish the typical Spanish sounds like "ll," "j," and "y." Part of the problem is in the foursquare playing of Roger Vignoles on the piano. In any case, the songs are captivating and Bernarda Fink's expressiveness is beautiful but undermined by this lack of flair. Though less effective than her debut art song recorded of Schumann Lieder on harmonia mundi, this remains nonetheless a record of lasting appeal.

The program is of love songs offered from the perspective of man, woman, and third person. This music is so rarely heard and worth hearing as to make the disc self-recommending. Spanish composers lean more toward collections than narrative cycles, and here we have some collections presented in full and some excerpted. Spanish art song conveys a rich bittersweetness, stretching the ear with tangy chromaticisms and veiled harmonies, their unsettling effect kept within bounds by recognizable rhythms, modulations, melismas, and other characteristic flourishes. Refined, yes, but never too distant from its popular variants.

The Granados collection that begin the disk has the first 5 songs rather centered on the pains of love, from different angles: deeply sympathetic narrator, a girl in the torments of young love, one man rueful, another wry and cynical. The last 2 songs move into more sanguine areas of the heart, the 6th a lighthearted folksong admiring young beauties at work, the 7th an exuberant transport in rhythms alternately propulsive and swaying. The Granados mini-cycle "La maja dolorosa" that follows is the best-known item in the program. Portraying three different women in grief, or perhaps a progression of grief in the same woman, the first song represents stark betrayal and disbelief; the second emerges somewhat, still distraught, dispossessed, drenched in desolate desire; in the third, bereavement gives way to a proud nostalgia.

The Rodrigo selection is astute: "Pastorcito santo" a haunting, gently lilting Christmas carol, "Coplillas de Belén" another carol with jazzy rhythms imparting the impatient joy of Christmas morning. "Por mayo era" starts with the heat of the day underscored by piano arpeggios (shifting neatly to depict a nightingale). The fullness of the scene is contrasted with the singer's desolation in the second verse, where the arpeggios now become fractured and acerbic. "Adele" is pure folksong, sad and plain in regard of the girl's demise for love, free of harmonic twists and other commentary. The set concludes with the vibrant and soaring "Cancion del Duero," with rustic images elevated by the rapture of joyous and world-embracing love, building to a thrilling final verse and a rousing sendoff.

The 3 Nin songs, while enjoyable, are more self-conscious in execution and the music a tad more bombastic. His arrangement of "El Vito" is too dense, not nearly as fun as Obridors's. "El pano murciano," about setting a kiss in silver, after a rather excessive piano introduction, does give into the simple whimsy of the verses.

The program ends with music of the singer's homeland, Argentina. Guastavino is very sentimental: "La rosa y el sauce" ("The Rose and the Willow") is a pensive elegy. "Cita" offers a charming scene of a lazy tryst. "La palomita" ("Little Dove") is in antique style. These are united expressively in a straightforward musical style. Ginastera is represented by a sensuous, sad tango "Canción al arbol del olvido" ("The Tree of Forgetting") and a collection of 5 popular songs. "Chacarera" is notable for its dense rhythms. "Triste" starts with slow arpeggios again depicting a dry landscape of the soul, the blankness pierced by the singer's stricken cries of "Ah!" "Arroró" is a lovely lullaby, with sharp insomniac harmonies and the long hours tolling in the piano layer. Ginastera's accompiments are restrained but inventive.

Though by rights this music ought to be close to home for her, what I found lacking here were musical traits that are distinctly Spanish -- the rhythmic verve, the bite of the consonants -- elements that would have given her performances greater personality. This is especially noticeable in the faster songs, where words are less distinguishable because of this weakness and accentuation of individual words doesn't come through. Berganza and De Los Angeles both have it -- you can compare their versions of "La maja dolorosa". Berganza's is on a 2-disk set on DG, De Los Angeles in a 4-disk compilation on EMI. Native qualities of De Los Angeles's voice, the inimitable blend of sweetness and sadness, give her an advantage in these songs. Her performance of the first features cor anglais accompaniment along with the piano, deepening the sorrowful effect. With this additional support, DLA takes a slower tempo resting on sturdy chest tones. The third song is underpinned by tentative staccato in the piano as the bereaved avows feelings and memories. Berganza is more confessional, but at times a tad lugubrious. Both have a piquancy to their voice that Fink lacks here. Even Margaret Price on an Orfeo disk of French and Spanish songs sounds no less authentic.

The elements of rhythm and enunciation are even more decisive in comparing DLA's performance of 6 of the 7 Granados songs, recorded live in 1971 with De Larrocha at the piano delivering more robust sound. Though DLA is less secure tonally throughout, her performances have a radiance that Fink's lack. "Mañana era" is very delicate with more sadness in the voice; "Mira que soy niña" has crispness of rhythm; "Gracia mia" dances, the rapid-fire phrases maintaining a contour that Fink loses. Though both singers have facility in ornamentation, De Los Angeles is more successful thank Fink because her placement and pacing are better.

Average customer rating: This CD will make you wonder. Simply outstanding

Las Puertas de la Mañana Manufacturer: New Albion Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000R3I Release Date: 1994-04-13

Customer Reviews:

This CD will make you wonder........2006-02-16

This recording will make you ask yourself why these tuneful and haunting songs of Carlos Guastavino aren't much better known. I had never heard of Guastavino until David Garland played some selections from this CD on WNYC in New York, and I'm very glad he did. With lyrics by some leading Spanish and Latin American poets, these are songs that go straight to the heart.

Tenor Ulises Espaillat and pianist Pablo Zinger sound as though they have lived with this music for awhile. They respond to every nuance of Guastavino's settings, and the performances are caught in wonderfully natural sound.

If you don't speak Spanish, the enclosed booklet's English translations will allow you to follow along with the Spanish lyrics, and, if you're learning Spanish, this recording will help you along while opening a window onto Latin American culture. If you're a Spanish speaker, que suerte!

This recording is a great reminder that there are still many byways of classical music waiting to be discovered.

Simply outstanding.......2001-11-09

This music will take your breath away.
If Spanish is not your first language,
for the first time you will probably wish
it was. The songs recorded here are romantic,
emotional and nostalgic. Tenor Ulises Espaillat
sings with sentiment and emotion, and pianist
Pablo Zinger plays the piano outstanding.This
recording is so good and leaves me with very little
to say.

Average customer rating:

CITA CON RENE CABEL RENE CABEL CON LA RIVERSIDE ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000RI0FVY

Product Description

1- PEREGRINA 2- FRANQUEZA 3- LA BARCA 4- NUNCA NUNCA NUNCA 5- EL AMOR ALGO DIVINO 6- SANTA 7- EL RELOJ 8- TE ME OLVIDAS 9- PORQUE TU ME ACOSTUMBRASTE 10- NUESTRO IDILIO 11- MUJER 12- CUENTAME TUS PENAS

Average customer rating: Lovely Balads from a Telenovela Star

La Cita, Vol. 2 Daniela Romo Manufacturer: Universal Latino ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music Tejano | Latin Music | Styles | Music Mexico | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001BXE Release Date: 1997-08-26

Tracks:

1. Que sabes tu
2. Mulata
3. Si Dios me quita la vida
4. Dame un poco de ti
5. Si nos dejan
6. Toda una vida
7. Que has hecho de mi
8. La corriente
9. Franqueza
10. Cheque en blanco

Customer Reviews:

Lovely Balads from a Telenovela Star.......2001-05-11

Daniela's voice is smooth as silk and her style is classic. Her recording of Si Dios Me Quita La Vida (from the Telenovela of the same name in which she appeared) is one of the most beautiful recordings I have ever heard. She has an unusual and distinctive voice and knows how to sell a song. I am just waiting for her to record in English.

Average customer rating:

La Cita Chicos Aventura Manufacturer: Sony International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Mexico | International | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Latin General | Latin Music | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Latin General | Latin Music | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B000AAIXVI Release Date: 2005-08-30

Tracks:

1. Esa Ni
2. Mia
3. Cita
4. Uno Solo
5. Mi Cuerpo
6. Anhelo
7. Y Nos Amamos
8. Si Supieras
9. Lluvia
10. Y Que Me Pasa
11. Te Amo
12. Mi Media Mitad
13. Hiedra Venenosa
14. Tu Me Vuelves Loco
15. Desde Que Llegaste
16. Y Tu No Estas

Average customer rating:

La Cita, Vol. 1 Daniela Romo Manufacturer: Universal Latino ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music Tejano | Latin Music | Styles | Music Mexico | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001BXC Release Date: 1997-08-26

Tracks:

1. Amor Mio
2. Cien Anos
3. Voy
4. Un Mundo Raro
5. La Cita
6. De Que Manera Te Olvido
7. La Noche De Anoche
8. Canta, Canta, Canta
9. Que Va
10. Mi Amigo El Tiempo

Average customer rating:

La Ultima Cita 1947-1953 Florindo Sassone Manufacturer: El Bandoneon Sp ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Latin Music | International | Styles | Music | Compilations | Afro Brazilian | Bolero | Brazilian Jazz | Cuban | Flamenco | Latin Jazz | Mambo | Mariachi | Merengue | Salsa | Samba | Tango | Tejano General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004UFAR Release Date: 2004-11-16

Average customer rating:

Amparo Montes, La Epoca De Oro Del Bolero Vol I, La Cita - Desvelo De Amor Amparo Montes Manufacturer: Orfeon Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music Bolero | Latin Music | Styles | Music ASIN: B000002F17 Release Date: 1992-07-31

Tracks:

1. Desolvo de Amor
2. Cita
3. Ofrenda
4. Regalo de Viaje
5. Una Semana Sin Ti
6. Ya Nada Soy
7. Devuelveme el Corazon
8. Cancion del Mar
9. Nunca Te Olvidare
10. Sin Lagrimas

Average customer rating:

La Cita Daniela Romo Manufacturer: Fonovisa Inc. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Tejano | Latin Music | Styles | Music ASIN: B000008OZI Release Date: 1994-09-09

Tracks:

1. Amor M
2. Cien A
3. Voy
4. Mundo Raro
5. Cita
6. De Que Manera Te Olvido
7. Noche de Anoche
8. Canta, Canta, Canta
9. Que Va
10. Mi Amigo el Tiempo

Tracks:

1. Que Sabes Tu
2. Mulata
3. Si Dios Me Quita la Vida
4. Dame un Poco de Ti
5. Si Nos Dejan
6. Toda Una Vida
7. Que Has Hecho de Mi
8. Corriente
9. Franqueza
10. Cheque en Blanco

Average customer rating:

En La Cita Con El Amante Dukers Manufacturer: Dii ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Mexico | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008EZCP Release Date: 1995-04-16

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8. Merengue Bomba
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