Sensations

Liata | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 2004)
• Original Release Date: October 1, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Orbis World Records
• ASIN: B0006VLLX8
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #221,319 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Treasure Chest of Gorgeous International Ballads - Beautiful Sound!, August 26, 2005

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Jana L. Perskie "ceruleana" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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I was browsing the World Music section at Amazon and came upon Liata's "Sensations" quite by accident. Intrigued, I listened to bits of each track and, enchanted, decided to take a chance and purchase the CD. Boy, am I ever glad I am a risk taker! (smile). The music is just beautiful - an eclectic multicultural compilation of ballads from France, Spain, Italy, and Russia, along with some opera.

Mezzo-soprano Rosanna D'Agnillo's lush voice simply soars, turning each song into a special treasure. At times Lynne Cerro joins her in vocal harmonies. Ms. Cerro also accompanies with multicultural instrumentation like the woodwinds, as well as the more eclectic offerings of santur, dulcimer, harp and oud. Lynn Davies is brilliant on the classical guitar. The result of their collaboration is pure elegance with an earthy touch.

Album highlights include: "I'te Vurria Vasa," ("How I Want To Kiss You"), the opening track, is an early 20th century Neapolitan serenade; "Ciao Bella Ciao," a traditional WWII song of the Italian partisan fighters; the contemporary Peruvian "Alma, Corazon y Vida;" "Study in G Major" a gorgeous 18th century composition for classical guitar with an additional melody line for the flute; the haunting traditional Irish ballad "Banks of the Lee," written by Thomas Davis, a 19th century poet and patriot, is another great favorite; the popular American love song "The Twelfth of Never" is beautifully performed here, as is the passionate Russian ballad "Ach Zactchem eta Noch;" and George Bizet's "Je Croix Entendre Encore," from "The Pearl Fishers."

This wonderful album is certainly a well kept secret, at least in the US. I am amazed more people do not know what a jewel Liata's "Sensations" is. Highly recommended!
JANA

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fix for the Hopeless Romantic, January 1, 2005

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Garrett Mitcheltree "Garrett" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sensations (Audio CD)

In a world that's becoming increasingly more frustrating to find music that embraces

the romance and the beauty of the Latin based languages their are few in this small

musically genre like Andrea Bochelli and Josh Groban who managed to thrive.

For me I think Liata is their feminine counterpart. As one of the millions of

hopeless romantics of this world I was not disappointed after listening to Sensations.

I managed to get MY FIX. The heartbreakingly beautiful vocals and harmonies, the mixture of sweet strings and sad guitars and the variety of other instruments in the arrangement all lead to an interesting, emotionally charged and unpredictable mix. Warning: this album is not for unromantics.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I actually cried the whole way through, January 4, 2005

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Nicola in Texas (San Antonio, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sensations (Audio CD)

I can't get sick of this sound, this intense synergy. Pure passion, from start to finish. This cd does not disappoint. The vocal broke my heart. It's an unusually feminine but totally modern approach to some of the great old songs - Ciao Bella Ciao, I'te Vurria Vasa. A cool modernized and really ethnic sounding George Brassens "Chanson Pour l"Auvergnat" was a nice surprise. A good mix of fast and slow. A good intro for children to music in European languages - my students loved it.