Suite Leopoldina [Import]

Guinga | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Velas Brazil
• ASIN: B00008O79V
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #660,984 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dos Anjos

2. Parsifal

3. Di Menor

4. Sargento Escobar

5. Chá de Panela

6. Choro Perdido

7. Noturno Leopoldina

8. Guia de Ego

9. Perfume de Radames

10. Par Constante

11. Cortando Um Dobrado

12. Mingus Samba

13. Dissimulado

14. Constance

Editorial Reviews

CD > BRAZILIAN MUSIC > INSTRUMENTAL

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet!, December 14, 2000

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DJDecca (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Suite Leopoldina (Audio CD)

Bravo! Brazilian guitarist/songwriter Guniga gathers an impressive array of guests and explores a wide variety of Brazilian music. The choro, waltz, samba, and more all played with great lyricism and technique. Great orchestra tracks, quiet solos, jazzy combos, fun duos...it's a most eclectic CD united by a Brazilian flair and truly top-of-their game performers. A wonderful CD.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific contemporary Brasilian music, January 13, 2007

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Timothy J. Gollin (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Suite Leopoldina (Audio CD)

You wouldn't want to pigeonhole Guinga. He's a great songwriter, and his CDs extend the vernacular of Brasilian music without losing sight of the most important part: it still swings. You could say 'lyrical', you could say 'unexpected harmonies', and interesting melodic and chromatic shifts. You could say quirky. All of it would be true, but the best part is that Guinga is both conscious of his tradition and constantly fighting with it and extending it. So you get Noel Rosa, samba, waltzes, Pernambuco, jazz, French café, American music hall, and much more, sometimes co-existing and sometimes fighting, but ALWAYS swinging. So it is classical, it is melodic, and you can dance to it: everything you would want in music. Did I mention also that he's a great orchestrator, and a great guitarist too ? Bears multiple listenings.