Habanera: Piano Music of Ernesto Lecuona

Ernesto Lecuona (Composer), Kathryn Stott (Performer)

Product Details

• Performer: Kathryn Stott
• Composer: Ernesto Lecuona
• Audio CD (May 4, 1999)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Angel Records
• ASIN: B00000IOCI
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #444,626 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Preludio en la Noche (Prelude in the Night)

2. Conga de Media Noche (The Midnight Conga)

3. Cancion de Luna (The Moon Lights Up)

4. Ella y Yo (She and I)

5. Vals Arabesque (Arabesque Waltz)

6. Vals Maravilloso

7. Vals Brillante

8. Vals Apasionado

9. Vals Patetico

10. Vals Romantico

11. Vals Poetico

12. Danza Negra

13. Y la Negra Bailaba!

14. Yo Te Quiero Siempre

15. Comparsa

16. Ante el Escorial

17. San Francisco El Grande

18. Danza de los Nanigos

19. Habanera

20. Danza Lucuma

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite what I expected, September 25, 1999

By A Customer

Although thoroughly pleasing, this music only intermittently sounds Latin. And quite unlike Gershwin to be sure. I was reminded rather of Granados in the best moments (and of Scott Joplin is the less inspired ones...)

1.0 out of 5 stars ANOTHER DISASTROUS COPY CAT, July 27, 2000

By	DK (Miami, FL USA) - See all my reviews

Here we go again. Yet another pianist recording the piano music of Lecuona. Forget that its for EMI: Of all the available recordings: this is without question, the WORST. No technical prowess here, little color variation, no understanding of styles (does she know what a danza Cubana or malaguena is..or a Vals Brillante-weh!). The tempi are so slow, so unstylistic, so contrived, there is no Latino essence at all in this music. It sounds like quite over pompous salon music. The pianist is terrible. And the sound quality of the disc sounds like she was recorded under the English Channel!

As a Cuban, I find the minimization of our great national treasure, Lecuona...offensive in this collection. Go out and by the real thing: the Tirino BIS Lecuona series and get Lecuona's own recording as compliment-go experience what is Cuba!