11 Episodios Sinfonicos [LIVE]

Gustavo Cerati

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 22, 2002)
• Original Release Date: January 15, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Rca Intl
• ASIN: B00005Y44M
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #72,656 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Cerati Follows in the Path of Other Pop Artists and Arranged his Popularsongs for Performance with a Symphony Orchestra. The Result is this Monumental Disc, Recorded Inargentina with a Select Group of Musicians Personally Chosen by Conductor Alejandro Teran. Thematerial was Originally Recorded by Cerati's Former Band Soda Stereo and the Newversions Add a Completely New Dimension and Accentuate Cerati's Powers of Enchantment. Amilestone in Popular Argentinean Music and Latin Music as a Whole.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bravo, Gustavo!, February 20, 2002

By	Shawn O'Neal (Boone, NC, USA) - See all my reviews

Too many pop/rock performers have made the journey into Symphonyland and they came back only with "phony". It is all too often very bloated and over-produced.

Cerati exercises very good restraint throughout the album. He knows that he is not an opera singer. He does not try to be an opera singer. But his voice always blends well with the arrangements.

Much thanks goes to arranger and conductor Alejandro Teran for his very fine work. It would be wonderful to listen to on its own even if Gustavo was not there.

Who had the idea to add the theremin? Interesting!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lo confieso: dude al principio, pero Cerati lo logro!!, June 22, 2002

By	Manny Hernandez "Author of Ning For Dummies" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

Mi primera reaccion al enterarme de la grabacion de un album junto a una orquesta sinfonica por parte del genial ex-lider de la banda Soda Stereo, fue de preocupacion. Al fin y al cabo, ha habido tantos experimentos de este tipo, de los que hicieron rico a David Palmer interpretando temas de Genesis, Pink Floyd o Yes, la mayoria de los cuales sonaban forzados. Creo que Cerati dio con la clave del problema: no es tratar de tomar una orquesta sinfonica y hacerla sonar como una banda de rock, sino mas bien tomar temas de rock, y componer nuevos arreglos para orquesta sinfonica, de forma semejante a como Soda Stereo reinvento varios de sus temas para el album "Musica para volar."

De esta forma, Cerati ha logrado algo comparable con el album de George Michael, "Music from the last century," pero manteniendose 'en lo suyo.' Temas increibles le sobran al album, casi todos con una atmosfera un tanto obscura, que casi le otorga una cualidad de score de pelicula de suspenso, pero los dos mejores sin duda alguna son "El Rito" y "Persiana Americana," temas ambos de sus años con Soda Stereo.

En pocas palabras, fanaticos o no de Cerati o Soda podran disfrutar por igual de este gran trabajo, el cual desde ya esta destinado a convertirse en un clasico de su genero.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Done with Style and Grace, March 26, 2002

By	Luis C. Diaz (Mason, Ohio) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Cerati walks a difficult path with this album as there are many examples of orchestra actually destroying a song or body of work by an artist once its transcribed into academic music grounds. Fortunately this is not the case with Once Episodios Sinfonicos.

The music in this CD takes a different and innovative approach to the music by focusing the the emotional and perhaps dark side of the music making the orchestra an ambient and texture support for Cerati's voice. The arregements are done with style and ther overall fell ones gets is that this proyect had mature for a long time. This is not a proyect that came about in just a few dyas as the arregements have been carefully made and the song selections and sequence provides an extra punch. Of course, for many of us who have had the chance to see both Soda Stereo and Cerati in concert it comes as a shock to see traditional arregemets and instrumets changed. Bust, it is no surprised that Cerati has alsa made every effort possible in his career to constantly reinvent his music and to provide different angles for the listener to research hois music and lyrics.

The result is a very dark a personnal view of some great classics. Cerati has announced that he plans to tour behind this record and it will be interesting to see this work performed live.