Maria Bethania & Omara Portuondo [Import]

Maria Bethania, Omara Portuondo | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 25, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Biscoito Fino Br
• ASIN: B0015FQZLW
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #361,287 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars songs from beyond the soul, May 22, 2008

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Isaac Fiser Menda - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maria Bethania & Omara Portuondo (Audio CD)

If you are lucky to come across compositions and reditions like this more than a few times in your life, you would consider yourself lucky indeed. And yet they are brought together in a unique collection / colaboration between one of Cuba's and Brazil's greatest interpreters of love songs. Some songs sung in Spanish and some in Portuguese but all with a refiness that is unequaled.

If you are not at peace or in love at the beginning of the cd, you will be after listening to it once or twice.

4.0 out of 5 stars Album features the collaboration between two great latin singers, October 17, 2009

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Andres C. Salama (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maria Bethania & Omara Portuondo (Audio CD)

An interesting collaboration between two great singers from Latin America: Brazil's Maria Bethania (born in 1946) and Cuba's Omara Portuondo (born in 1930). I'm more familiar with Bethania's work than with Portuondo: Bethania seems to me a bit more innovative and diverse in her career than Portuondo, who seems to belong to the more traditional bolero genre (though her style is very dignified, far from the more commercial artists in this genre). Most of the songs are a bit slow, with spare orchestration, letting this two women's great voices come to the forefront. Some songs are in Spanish, some in Portuguese and some, like the last track, the best in the album, Caipira de Fato/El Amor de Mi Bohio is actually a medley: Bethania starts with a Brazilian song and Portuondo finishes with a Cuban song: the blending of both is almost seamless. Bethania sometimes sings in Spanish (flawlessly); Portuondo sometimes also sings in Portuguese, but I can't vouch for her pronounciation. Other great songs here are the beautiful Nana para un Suspiro, Tal Vez, So Vendo que Beleza and Para Cantarle al Amor. The CD includes an interesting DVD showing the making of the album.