Fina Estampa [Import]

Caetano Veloso | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 11, 1994)
• Original Release Date: October 11, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000015U2
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,577 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Cd > Brazilian Music > Mpb - Brazilian Popular Music CD > BRAZILIAN MUSIC > MPB - BRAZILIAN POPULAR MUSIC

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Music, August 24, 2002

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Barbara J. Chaplin (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fina Estampa (Audio CD)

This is a collection of Latin American classic pop ballads. (The songs were not composed by Veloso.) It is a beautifully sung and played album. The lyrics are included, for those of us who would like to practice our Spanish. (Veloso is a Brazilian singer, but these songs are sung in Spanish.) The basic tone of the cd is peaceful, reflective, and melancholy. It's definitely not lively dnace music. Other reviewers have commented that these songs are well-worn chestnuts, but I think the average person buying this cd in America or Canada would not know this. Certainly I was not familiar with any of these songs before I purchased this album. For people like me, this is a fine introduction to Latin standards. For people who are familiar with this music, I think Veloso's exquisite performance of the songs also makes this cd well worth buying.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A magic travel in time and space throughout South America., July 31, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Fina Estampa (Audio CD)

The re-arrangement of a set of 15 classics of south American repertoire, stretched over a period of more than 100 years long (!) of different musical trends and backgrounds, was by itself a titanic goal. Veloso coped with such task in an excellent way, giving sufficient smoothness, unity and consistency to the whole. His thin light voice is probably not the ideal to interpret some of the tunes. Some among the strictest 'aficionados' of the original versions, therefore, will probably feel a bit perplexed when listening to these remakes. Nevertheless Veloso demonstrates in this album to be deeply familiar with the Latin American tradition of last century: can you name any other pop artists who manage to summarise in a single CD, and in such clever way, the feel of a whole continent so musically rich and 'hot'? Veloso's singing and arranging style give to this CD of melodic and folk tunes a musically sophisticated character, as if nothing (including the simplest love song)! could possibly sound banal when he is handling it: sometimes a malicious string arrangement gives new life to a very well known passage ("Un vestido y un amor"); sometimes his straightforward, warm, mellow voice takes the groove of the native 'pueblos' down through space and time where all of us can finally touch it ("Tonada de lluna llena"). The voice-guitar-cello version of Piazzola's "Vuelvo al sur" is an authentic gem, the perfect finale for the ones who feel nostalgia for Veloso's performances just guitar and voice of few years ago.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of his best records, March 11, 2001

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Jorge Velasco Cruz (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fina Estampa (Audio CD)

Cualquier latinoamericano debiera sentirse orgulloso de este disco. Caetano Veloso interpreta canciones típicas del pop y el folclor de América Latina en forma notable, en un castellano bastante bueno para alguien nativo de Brasil. Pocas veces su voz ha sonado tan bella y refinada. Los arreglos, a su vez, son novedosos y enriquecen la música. Es un disco muy del corazón, más para llorar que para reír. La elección de canciones es acertadísima, no tanto por lo representativo del repertorio sino por la calidad del mismo. Versiones como la de "Lamento Borincano", "María Bonita" y "Laguna de Ipacaraí" son simplemente memorables.