Alegria

Cirque du Soleil | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 11, 1994)
• Original Release Date: October 11, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003FRF
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,962 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Lively, colourful music composed by Rene Dupere. Alegria draws on the rhythms of jazz, pop, tango and klezmer. Alegria evokes the sound and spirit of wandering minstrels through the use of various acoustic instruments including the accordion. Alegria is the best-selling Cirque du Soleil album to date.

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful music will have you hooked., April 19, 2000

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John Keady "Irish Tenor" (Reston, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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I picked up the Best of Cirque du Soliel CD on an impulse buy. As I listened to the songs, Alegria and Querer stood out as my favorites. On my next trip to the CD store, I snagged the Alegria album and have to say I was floored by the beauty and power that drew me into a state of musical extasy. For those of you who love the art house music styles of Europe mixed with a New Age spiritualness, this album will be playing over and over in your CD player for weeks to come.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps my favorite CD of all time....., October 26, 2004

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Brian Kerecz (PA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alegria (Audio CD)

Cirque du Soleil soundtracks are always enjoyable as they have some of the best producers and singers in the world on each CD. I now have each and every CdS soundtrack, even ones OOP, and Alegria is far and away my favorite. And it is no secret why.....Francesca Gagnon's haunting voice. The woman in white is mesmerizing and one of the most talented performers I have ever seen or heard. I never understood why people cried at operas; after hearing Francesca, I now do.

Vai Vadrai is my favorite song on any Cirque album......the raspy, sultry voice of Francesca has to be heard to be believed.....and then heard again. Alegria is another favorite of mine, and is a beautiful first song to start the show/CD. Mirko is amazing as it really is almost Francesca yelling and yet at the same time, it is a beautiful song.....I cannot picture any other singer pulling this off. And at one point in the song, her voice literally merges with the instruments and the listener cannot tell when her voice ends and the instruments begin. It really is unbelievable. Querer is another favorite, is belted out like nothing you've ever heard.....turn up the volume when this one starts.

These four songs alone are worth the cost of the CD. Rene Dupere should not be forgotten either, as he did a fantastic job.

Francesca has another CD coming out any day now, but buy this one while you wait. You will not be disappointed.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful individual songs, May 20, 2000

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Ruben Gomez Garcia (Bilbao (Spain)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alegria (Audio CD)

This CD is a fantastic mixture of wonderful songs. Although there is a constant style of music in all of them, there is not a common them along the disc. The songs are different one of each other; some ones are glad and some few are slow, but always beautiful and nice to listen to.

Some songs are rather long, and perhaps some people get tired for one moment. This is not a problem because there is always a pretty melody in that themes. Besides, the order of the songs in the CD is so good that there are not two slow songs one after another, and, when one of them finishes, the live rythm of the next starts.

Alegria has lyrics in several languages, including English, Spanish, Italian and an invented one. Although I don't like Spanish songs in general (perhaps because I'm Spanish and I have heard a lot), the Alegria lyrics are very good, and much better than the English-Spanish version of Quidam.

If you already have music of Cirque Du Soleil, you will like Alegria a lot, and if you don't have any disc, it's very dificult that you don't like this one. Buy it, don't hesitate.