Que Viva La Musica

Que Viva La Musica

ASIN: B000055YH1

Track Listings

1. Que Viva La Musica

2. Bruca Manigua

3. Pelota

4. El Tiempo Lo Dira

5. Cocinando

6. Triunfo El Amor

7. Alafia Cumaye

Tracks:

Watusi
Bantu
007
Do You Dig It
Soul Drummers
Hard Hands
Together
Right On
Acid
Abidjan
Power
Other Road
Lucretia the Cat
Cocinando
Arrepientete

Tracks:

Que Viva la Musica
Petola
Indestructible
Hijo de Obatal
Guarare
Vale Mas un Guaguanco
Ya Vez
Tu Propio Dolor
Fuerza Gigante
Rhythm of Life
Manos Duras
Prestame Tu Mujer
Aguadilla

Customer Reviews:

Emusica off to a Latin start with Fania catalog.......2007-01-23

Fania's catalog has been so mismanaged nay just plain neglected over the past 30 years (i once bought a copy of a willie colon lavoe cd - te mato- and it sounded like total distortion ... there had clearly been a problem with it and yet there it was) I have high hopes that things will improve now that Emusica bought the catalog but this Barretto compilation gives me some cause for concern. I do not understand the philosophy behind this compilation... it seems fania just wanted to include 1 or 2 tracks from each album with no concer for what they were including... Why would you include the same number of tracks (and shorter as they were done earlier) from seminal albums such as Acid, Together and Hard Hands as you would from Barretto's latter day efforts which had nowhere the impact and to these ears sound like more standard fare salsa. In fact the first cd is the one with the different rhythms etc... but they neglected some incredible stuff including some tracks he recorded with fania all stars which he wrote and should have been part of this compilation (i'm thinking of some tracks from the live at the red garter cds).. meanwhile the second cd is mainly post 72 Barretto and most tracks sound fairly similar...It just does not pack the same punch... Since CD1 has 15 minutes empty space and CD2 has another 15 or so they could have easily included more from early era Barretto... The liner notes are pretty shoddy affair with for example in the english notes riverside records honcho orrin keepnews (who anybody that knows anything about music knows who he is) is mispelled orrin keepnuevo as if they did a spellcheck in spanish or something and replaced "news" with "nuevo"...lame...barretto deserves a 100% treatment.. the notes tell us what album the songs come from but provide no dates, session players or anything else!!! the session players deserve better!... silly.. this is the typical mishandling of art by people who traditionally own latin music catalogs.. if they really want to do for fania what blue note did with its back catalog, which is what they've claimed, they got a long way to go.... also, there is no explanation of what happened when barretto's musicians left him around 72 to form their own group Tipica 73.. I give this four stars because the music is just great (although in my opinion too much 70s stantard salsa) and not enough early bugalu etc from the 60s... in fairness i should also say the sound is pretty good with two notable exceptions which are tracks 6 and 10 both coincidentally (not!) from "hard hands" which sound shoddy and buzz.. clearly an inferior source was used for these as they do not sound at all as good as the rest.. they should have just used a mint lp which they could have found on ebay for a bill... as mentioned the song selection is questionable and the liner notes leave a lot to be desired..it just seems like an opportunity was wasted to give barretto the 100% class act compilation he deserves... final quibble: to call this comp "a man and his music" is probably not the right way to go because barretto was very much about jazz too which is not represented here...

THE LATE GREAT RAY BARRETTO.......2007-01-07

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GO OUT AND BUY ALL OF RAY BARRETTO'S ALBUMS, THEN BUY THIS ONE. IT IS A GREAT COMPILATION OF HIS MUSIC FROM THE FANIA AND TICO LABELS. I GUARANTEE YOU WILL LOVE THIS CD!!!!!! LONG LIVE RAY BARETTO!!! SOME OF IT MAY SOUND A BIT DATED (60'S AND 70'S), BUT IT IS GREAT MUSIC NEVERTHELESS.

A superb tribute to an all-time Salsa legend........2006-08-07

The late great Ray Barretto's recordings for the Tico and Fania labels represent an extremely important chapter in the history of Salsa and this compilation offers a fine (if incomplete) overview of his illustrious career. Hopefully, Emusica Records (Fania's new owner) will reissue all of Ray's Tico and Fania CDs. Most of his major hits and trademark tunes are here and no self-serving Barretto fan should be without this great compilation.

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This is the best classical music.......2001-02-05

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Great collection.......2000-11-04

Two complaints: no liner notes so any potential educational value is lost (I have a number of reference books around the house and some of these composers don't show up anywhere in them) and there is at least one extremely jarring organ work that blasts out of nowhere. A more listener friendly compilation would've sequenced the disc differently or left it out alltogether. That said, this is a wonderful collection of music that I have (mostly) never heard before. I'm glad Naive Astree saw fit to put a lot of obscure and out-of-print recordings together to form this audio introduction to an underappreciated canon.

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Que Viva La Musica
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Barretto in TOP FORM!!

One of the best latin jazz/salsa albums in history

Everyone should have this record

The Highpoint of Ray Barretto's Fania Recordings

Que Viva La Musica
Ray Barretto
Manufacturer: Fania
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000055YH1
Release Date: 2000-05-15

Tracks:

Que Viva la Musica
Bruca Manigua
Pelota
Tiempo Lo Dira
Cocinanco
Alafia Cumaye

Customer Reviews:

Barretto in TOP FORM!!.......2007-03-29

This album is DA BOMB! From the opening number, Barretto sets the tone for the rest of the album, QVLM begins with a band fanfare intro that breaks into a descarga (guaguanco callejero), with Adalberto then joining in with tight vocals inspiring the rest of the band into painting for the listener one of the great dance numbers of all time. The other tunes are also treated with Barretto's always in the pocket and hip style of playing. Barretto always surrounded himself with the best musicians and this album was no exception. In the Arsenio classic, "Bruca Manigua", Ray pays homage to the roots, the tambor and his Afro-Caribbean heritage with his very relaxed but funky cha cha rendition of this Cuban musical staple. The next tracks, "La Pelota" and "El Tiempo Lo Dira" are Barretto/R. Rodriguez compositions that lend true legitimacy to Barretto's compositional and arranging talents.

We now come to the jewel... "Cocinando", a gem of a tune, that cements Barretto's reputation permanently as one of the top dogs in Latin music. "Cocinando" has got to be one of the coolest, smoothest, and sensual cha cha tunes ever done. On "Cocinando", he pulls out all stops, turns on the heat and cooks it up to a steaming boil, keeping the musical tension tight thru-out, letting the fellas stretch out on extended solos. David Perez on bass, throbs and undulates the tempo all the way, Orestes Vilato explodes with percussive pyrotechnics and of course Barretto hops into the pot and smacks some serious percussive sofrito into this tune. A smoker of a tune for all serious salseros. The closing number, "Alafia Cumaye", has Adalberto also in top form, helping the make this album an all time classic. Barretto always the jazz musician, weaves his jazz experience everywhere to add his unique touch on this recording but he always manages to keep all the numbers in the groove and very danceable.
Ray Barretto at the pinnacle of his musical creativity.

Get this one, or else I'm telling on you....

One of the best latin jazz/salsa albums in history.......2005-06-11

Barretto is a heavyweight conga player, and this is "the" record at the pinnacle of his career, after joining the legendary Fania record label. There's a lot here to remark: the quality of songs like "que viva la música", "la pelota", "alafia cumaye", an splendid Barretto and the sonero Adalberto Santiago at his finest. Another "giant" salsero, Orestes Vilató (who founded Tipica 73 later), plays timbales like a God in this recording. And, if all this is not enough, you have "cocinando", the introductory song of "Our latin thing", a great movie that explains a lot of the salsa movement of the seventies.
A must have.

Everyone should have this record.......2004-05-03

"Que Viva la Musica" is one of the best records ever made in any category. No record collection should be without it. It features beautiful songs, Ray Barretto's visonary ideas and execution in percussion, and above all the golden voice of Adalberto Santiago, one of the world's great soneros.

The Highpoint of Ray Barretto's Fania Recordings.......2001-01-14

With:

Roberto Rodriguez, Trumpet Rene Lopez, Trumpet Joseph Roman, Trumpet Orestes Vilato, Timbales, Wood Block John Rodriguez, Bongos, Conga David Perez, Bass Luis Cruz, Electric Piano Adalberto Santiago, Vocals Ray Barreto, Conga, Quinto

This is the pinnacle of Ray Barretto on Fania Records, the great New York salsa label founded by Johnny Pacheco. A lot of people were profoundly affected by "Que Viva la Musica" and it stands as one of Ray Barretto's most "rounded" salsa recordings.

Tracks:

Que Viva la Musica
Bruca Manigua
Pelota
Tiempo Lo Dira
Cocinanco
Alafia Cumaye

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Indestructible
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Rigoletto, Act I: Studenti! Udite!
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Manon, Act II: Chiudi gli occhi (II Sogno)
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Don Sebastiano, Act II: Deserto in terra
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Pour un baiser
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Mamma mia che vo' sape
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Aida, Act IV: La fatal pietra
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Il Trovatore, Act IV: Quel suon, quelle preci...Ah! che la morte (Miserere)
Marta, Act I: Solo, profugo, reietto!

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Faust, Act I: O mereveille!...A moi les plaisirs
Faust, Act III: Siegneur dieu, que voi-je!
Faust, Act III: Eh! quoi! toujours seule?
Faust, Act III: Il se fait tard...Laisse moi...Eterbekke! O nuit d'amour
Faust, Act IV: Que voulez vous messieurs?
Faust, Act V: Mon coeur est penetre d'epouvante...Attends!Voici la rue...Alerte! ou vous etes perdus
Germania, Act I: Studenti! Udite!
Germania, Act I: Ah, vieni qui...no, non chiudi gli occchi vaghi
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Madama Butterfly, Act III: Non ve l'avevo detto...addio fiorito asil
For You Alone
Otello, Act II: Nell'ore arcane della sua lussuria...Ora e par sempre addio
Cavalleria Rusticana: O Lola (Siciliana)
I Pagliacci, Act II: No, pagliaccio non son
Addio
Il Trovatore, Act II: Mal reggenda all'aspro assalto
Il Trovatore, Act IV: Se m'ami ancor...Ai nostri moni

Tracks:

Aida Act IV: Gia i sacerdoti adunansi...Misero appien mi festi...Aida a me togliesti
Un ballo in machera, Act I: Di tu se fedele
La Boheme, Act III: Musette! O gioia della mia dimora...Testa adorata
Eternamente
Core' ngrato
Lo Schiavo (O Escravo), Act II: L'importuna insistenza...Quando nascesti tu
Canta pe' me
La Boheme, Act II: Io non ho che una povero stanzetta
L'elisir d'amore, Act II: Una furtiva lagrima
La forza del destino, Act IV: Invano, Alvaro...Le minaccie, i fieri accenti
Walter B. Rogers: Love Is Mine
Aida, Act I: Se quel quel guerrier io fossi...Celeste Aida
Un ballo in maschera, Act III: Forse la soglia attinse...ma se m'efora perderti
Je suis seul...Ah, fuyez, douce image
Crucifix
I Lombardi, Act III: Qual volutta trascorere

Tracks:

Marta, Act II: Siam giunti, o giovanette...Questa camera e per voi!...Che vuol dir cio?...Presto, presto andiam
Marta, Act II: T'ho raggiunta, sciagurata!...Dormi pur ('Goodnight' Quartet)
Tarantella sincera
Lucia di Lammermoor, Act II: Chi mi frena in tal momento? (Sextet)
Les soirees musicales, No.8: La danza (Tarantella napolitana)
Rigoletto, Act IV: Bella figlia dell'amore (Quartet)
Dreams Of Long Ago
The Lost Chord
Because
Hosanna
Manon, Act II: Manon! Avez-vous peur...On l'appelle Manon
La Boheme, Act I: O soave fanciulla
Don Carlo, Act I: Domanda al ciel...Dio, che nell'alma infondere
Il Trovatore, Act IV: Se m'ami ancor...Ai nostri monti
Op. 38, No. 6: Pimpinella (Canzone floretina)
Rigoletto, Act III: Ella mi fu rapita!...Parmi veder le lagrime
Agnus Dei

Tracks:

Manon Lescaut, Act I: Donna non vidi mai
Ave Maria
Elegie (Song of Mourning)
Lasciati amar
Guardanno 'a luna
Your Eyes Have Told Me What I Did Not Know
Fenesta che lucive
Stabat Mater: Cujus animam
The Palms
Cavalleria Rusticana: Mamma, Mamma, quel vino!...Voi dovrete far (Addio alla madre)
Otello, Act II: Oh! Mostruosa colpa!..Si, pel ciel
Op. 38, No. 1: Serenade de Don Juan
Amor mio
Manella mia
The Palms
Trusting Eyes
Serenade espagnole
Parted
Un ballo in maschera, Act I: Amici miei, soldati...La rivedra nell'estasi
Un ballo in maschera, Act I: Cosi scritto e lassu...E'scherzo od e follia

Tracks:

La Partida
El Milagro de la Virgen: Flores purisimas
La Traviata, Act I: Libiamo, libiamo (Brindisi)
Il Guarany (O Guarani), Act I: Sento una forza indomita
Hantis d'amour
Carman, Act I: Parle-moi de ma mere ( w Frances Alda)
La mia canzone
Cielo turchino
Pecche
Messa da requiem: Ingemisco
Il Duca d'Alba, Act IV: Angelo casto e bel
Si vous l'aviez compris
Les duex serenades: Serenade francaise
La procession
Le Cid, Act III: Ah! tout est bien fini!...O Souverain, o Juge,o Pere!
Luna d'estate
'O sole mio
La Reine de Saba, Act II: Faiblesse de la race humaine!...Inspirez-moi, race divine
Mia sposa sara la mia bandiera

Tracks:

Macbeth, Act IV: O fifgli, o figli miei...Ah, la paterna mano
La Boheme, Act IV: Vecchia zimarra, senti
Cantique de Noel
Sancta Maria
Tiempo antico
Santa Lucia
Op. 6, No. 5: Pourquoi?
Eugene Oneguine (Evgeny Onegin), Act II: Pour moi ce jour est tout mystere
Op. 102, No. 6: Chanson de juin
Andrea Chenier, Act IV: Come un bel di di maggio
Samson et Dalila, Act III: Vois ma misere, helas
Les pecheurs de perles, Act I: A cette voix quel trouble...Je crois entendre encore
Les pecheurs de perles, Act II: De mon amie, fleur endormie
Rigoletto, Act IV: Bella figlia dell'amore (Quartet)
Verdi: Bella figlia dell'amore (Quartet)
Lucia di Lammermoor, Act II: Chi mi frena in tal momento? (Sextet)
Lucia di Lammermoor, Act II: Chi mi frena in tal momento? (Sextet)
M'appari tutt'amor
Op. 5: Musica proibita
Uocchie celeste

Tracks:

L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra
L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra
Neron, Act II: Oh! lumiere du jour
Neron, Act III: Oh! lumiere du jour
A la luz de la luna
Sei morta ne la vita mia
La Partida
La forza del destino, Act III: Ne gustare m'e dato un'ora...Sleale! il segreto fu dunque violato
Over There...Par la-bas
Niedermeyer: Pieta, Signore
A Granada
Campane a sera
Inno di Garibaldi
Rosario Bourdon: La Campana di San Giusto
Le Regiment de Sambre et Meuse
Sultanto a tte
Samson et Dalila: Je viens celbrer la victoire
Venti scudi!

Tracks:

A' Vucchella
Vieni sul mar
Tu ca nun chiagne
L'addio a napoli
Nina (Tre giorni son che Nina)
Premiere caresse
Senza nisciuno
Salavator Rosa, Act I: Mia piccirella
Memories Of A Concert
Scordame
Love Me or Not
Serse, Act I: Frondi tenere e belle...Ombra mai fu (Largo)
Noche feliz
Rachel, quand du Seigneur
I' m'arricordo 'e Napule
Vaghissima sembianza
L'Africana (L'Africaine) Act III: Che dicon mai?...Deh, ch'io ritorni
Amadis de Gaule, Act III: Bois epais
A Dream
Petite Messe solennelle: Domine Deus
Petite Messe solennelle: Crucifixus

Amazon.com essential recording

From the youthful bloom and impetuous swagger of Enrico Caruso's debut 1902 recordings to the darker, almost baritonal overtones typifying his final sessions before the acoustic horn, the singer's resplendent vocalism and generous performing style remain the archetype for Italian tenors. As a child of the late 19th century, Caruso was prone to embellish upon composers' texts, yet his passion, communicative power, and soaring musicality transcend time. The Italian sessions from 1902 to 1904 and Caruso's recordings with piano between 1904 and 1905, along with two later sides, receive conventional, unaltered transfers. The remaining material is restored via the controversial Soundstream computer process, which fleshes out the lower partials of the voice while compromising its overtones, relegating the orchestral accompaniment to a rumbling backdrop rather than contributing partner. Yet many will find the Soundstream transfers easier on the ear. Those who wish to acquire the complete Caruso in a single package at midprice should not hesitate to purchase this significant set. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews:

No - the deffect is NOT on EVERY set!!!.......2006-12-08

The deffect that some previous reviewers were so mad about did not happen to my set. After purchasing it for two years and listening to the disks every other day, they are still shiny and beautiful like new. You can't use the word "EVERY" so cavelierly, because you have not listened to EVERY set.

The Master of Italian Tenor Singing-Get it.......2006-05-20

I have been collecting Caruso performance since 1960- of course they were on vinyl- I even had some 78's. I think the 78 and vinyl records produced a warmer tone, but it is a delight to have the Master's performances in one place. My vinyls are worn to shreds.

Except for the lighter and bel canto roles, Caruso is supreme in the Italian and some of the French repetoire. Last night I listened to the Quartet from Martha for the first time in many years. Caruso sings about a 20 second phrase beginning "Dormi
Pur" which had me in tears as it had in the past. The ease of Caruso cadenzas in "La donna e Mobile" and "Una Furtiva Lagrima" put most tenors with a 1/4 of Caruso's vocal weight and size to shame.

There are no American/Swedish or any other hyphenated Carusos. He was unique and I am a Bjoerling freak. I find it
odd that a previous reviwer mentioned Mario Lanza favorably with Caruso.

Lanza rarely performed on an opera stage. On recording his voice seems large but his singing is amateurish. He squeezes, forces, barks and croons. At times one can hear a pretty sound but I do not consider him a major opera singer.

Rudolf Bing's comment that people who heard Richard Tucker were just as lucky as those who heard Caruso is silly. Tucker was excellent but NOT Caruso.

Lauritz Melchior, in the heavy German repetoire and to my mind Otello, is as unique and uncomparable as Caruso is in the Italian and French repetoire.

WARNING-All Original Releases Corrode Because of Dye.......2005-04-24

EVERYONE who bought the ORIGINAL multi-disc release has seen each disc become unplayable through corrosion because of a dye used to print the label side. BMG is well aware of this and has been inundated with demands for replacement.

This set is available in a subsequently released BUDGET compilation, also available through AMAZON. There are no manufacturing defects.

from a 13 year old kid.......2005-03-15

it is a great cd. when they say complete, they mean complete! 12 cds about 70mins each. comes with booklet with recording dates and matrix #s. in cardboardy-leather box. i did not have a probelem with red batwing labels making a clear film. the set is from the 70's but is the quality that great any way? contains private recordings.

There are other, better options.......2004-05-17

I was surprised to see that this set was still available. These transfers were made in the late 1970's at the dawn of the digital era and were state of the art for that time. But in cleaning up the surface noise these old digital transfers seriously flatten out the sound of Caruso's voice.

I would suggest that people interested in Caruso check out the "complete" Caruso series on Naxos with new digital restorations by the great sound engineer/artist Ward Marston. On the Naxos CD's the voice is preserved in a much more natural and subtle sound while all of the other noises are eliminated as much as possible. It's much more satisfying and true to the original recordings than these old RCA transfers. If you're going to spend $130.00 you should have the best available. It's only fair to Caruso.

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