Mozart Meets Cuba

Mozart Meets Cuba

Mozart Meets Cuba
List Price: $7.99
Our Price: $4.65
You Save: $3.34 (42%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $2.79 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Listen soundtracks from this album



(Click here)
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store

CD Details

Composer: Klazz Brothers / Cuba Percussion
Performer: Cuba Percussion
Performer: Klazz Brothers
Performer: Tobias Forster
Performer: Lou Bega
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Guantanameritmo
  2. Salzburger Schafferl
  3. Calypso facile
  4. Poema con Cohiba
  5. Kubanischer Marsch
  6. Afrolero
  7. Don Cajon
  8. Don Muerte
  9. Sonatadur
  10. Wenn Son, Danzon
  11. Reich mir die Hand
  12. Tercero de la noche
  13. Yo siento mucho
  14. Bomba de la noche
  15. Hasta la vista Mozart
  16. Son de Mozart

Music reviews of Mozart Meets Cuba

Music Review: Another Effusive Melding of Cuban and Classical with the Focus Specifically on Mozart
Rating: 4 Stars

As a follow up to their accomplished fusion effort last year, "Classic Meets Cuba", the Klazz Brothers and Cuba Percussion have collaborated again for much of the same, only this time focusing specifically on the works of Mozart. If the results are not quite as exhilarating as the first effort, it may be that the novelty feels somewhat worn this time despite the often virtuoso playing displayed here. Recalling some of Vince Guaraldi's work in the 1960's, the jazzy arrangements are once again supplemented with the beat-heavy Cuban rhythms churned out by Alexis Herrera Estevez on timbales and Elio Rodriguez Luis on congas. What continues to impress on this recording is how well the two sides of the ensemble - Estevez and Rodriguez on one and on the other, pianist Tobias Forster, bassist Killian Forster and drummer Tim Hahn - mesh so well in making all the disparate musical elements balance without contrivance.

Many of Mozart's most renowned pieces are here in reconfigured form. The warhorse Piano Sonata K. 545 ("Sonata Facile") turns into a sunny Caribbean number, "Calypso Facile", while the staccato-tempo Turkish March evolves into the propulsive "Cuban March". More creatively, the familiar Piano Concerto No. 21, K. 467 turns into an African-accented bolero named appropriately "Afrolero" complete with a faraway-sounding whistle, while Eine Kleine Nachtmusik K. 525 becomes a percolating dance number, "Bomba de la Noche". Even more audaciously, they turn the overture to "Don Giovanni" into a slow, evocative bolero number, "Don Muerte", and the familiar aria, "La Ci Darem La Mano" into a lovely piano-dominated ballad, "Reich Mir Die Hand (Your Hand in Mine)". Somewhat less successful are the two selections derived from "The Magic Flute" - "Yo Siento Mucho", a cha-cha version of "Ach, Ich Fuhl's" and Forster's extended piano riffs based on the potpourri passage, "Salzburger Schafferl". Latin pop artist Lou Bega lends his saucy vocals to "Son de Mozart", a clubby reinvention of Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475. This is fun listening for fans of Latin-classical fusion.
More Mozart Meets Cuba free music reviews:
1

Description of Mozart Meets Cuba

All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Classical CDs

Music Genres
Bestsellers in Classical CDs
Winterscapes ImageWinterscapes
by London Philharmonic
Prophetic Voice; Published: 2000-07; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $2.75
Price in other shops: $6.99
The Queen, the Bear, & the Bumblebee ImageThe Queen, the Bear, & the Bumblebee
by Dini Petty
Children's Group; Published: 2001-03; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $13.38
Price in other shops: $13.98
Beethoven Lives Upstairs Cdr ImageClassical Kids - Beethoven Lives Upstairs Cdr
Release date: 2000-04-05; Music CD
Best price: $24.98
Tchaikovsky (Life and Works (Naxos)) ImageTchaikovsky (Life and Works (Naxos))
by Malcolm Sinclair, Jeremy Siepmann
Naxos; Published: 2003-11; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $35.99
Jose Carreras - Jubileum Concert [VHS] ImageJose Carreras - Jose Carreras - Jubileum Concert [VHS]
Sling Shot; Release date: 2000-04-18; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $5.86
Price in other shops: $9.99
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker / Nureyev, Park, Royal Ballet [VHS] ImageTchaikovsky - The Nutcracker / Nureyev, Park, Royal Ballet [VHS]
Kultur Video; Release date: 1997-09-09; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $29.89
Price in other shops: $29.95
Lonely Town Lonley Street / Sergeant's Early Dream [VHS] ImageRambert Dance Company - Lonely Town Lonley Street / Sergeant's Early Dream [VHS]
Kultur Video; Release date: 1997-10-28; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops: $29.95
Winter Music: Composing the North ImageWinter Music: Composing the North
by John Luther Adams
Wesleyan; Published: 2004-11-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $21.90
Price in other shops: $25.95
Puccini - La Fanciulla del West / Santi, Domingo, Neblett, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS] ImagePuccini - La Fanciulla del West / Santi, Domingo, Neblett, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS]
Kultur Video; Release date: 1999-05-25; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $6.38
Price in other shops: $29.95
Verdi - Falstaff / Giulini, Bruson, Ricciarelli, Nucci, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS] ImageVerdi - Falstaff / Giulini, Bruson, Ricciarelli, Nucci, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS]
Kultur Video; Release date: 1999-05-25; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $12.95
Price in other shops: $29.95
Similar CDs
My Secret Radio ImageTiempo Libre - My Secret Radio
Release date: 2011-05-03; Music CD
Best price: $5.45
Price in other shops: $11.98
What You've Been Waiting For / Lo Que Esperabas ImageTiempo Libre - What You've Been Waiting For / Lo Que Esperabas
Release date: 2006-05-23; Music CD
Best price: $7.50
Price in other shops: $17.98
Arroz Con Mango ImageTiempo Libre - Arroz Con Mango
Release date: 2005-05-24; Music CD
Best price: $11.72
Price in other shops: $17.98
Classic Meets Cuba - Live ImageKlazz Bros & Cuba Percussion - Classic Meets Cuba - Live
Release date: 2007-02-19; Music CD
Best price: $19.53
Price in other shops: $23.98
Chopin Lounge ImageDavid Gazarov, Klazz Brothers - Chopin Lounge
Release date: 2010-03-09; Music CD
Best price: $9.64
Price in other shops: $21.98
Jazz Meets Cuba ImageCuba Percussion, Klazz Brothers - Jazz Meets Cuba
Release date: 2006-07-03; Music CD
Best price: $25.85
Best of Classic Meets Cuba ImageCuba Percussion, Klazz Brothers - Best of Classic Meets Cuba
Release date: 2010-03-30; Music CD
Best price: $7.58
Price in other shops: $11.92
Bach in Havana ImageTiempo Libre - Bach in Havana
Release date: 2009-05-05; Music CD
Best price: $8.75
Price in other shops: $16.98
Classcic Meets Cuba: Symphonic Salsa ImageClasscic Meets Cuba: Symphonic Salsa
Release date: 2006-07-10; Music CD
Best price: $175.00
Classic Meets Cuba ImageClassic Meets Cuba
Release date: 2004-02-03; Music CD
Best price: $4.33
Price in other shops: $7.99
Compare prices and find music notes for more than one million Music CD titles