The Legendary Trumpet Virtuosity of Rafael Mendez
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CD Details
Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1995-06-19
Music Label: Summit(Classical)
Soundtracks:
- Virgen de la Macarena
- Trumpeter's Lullaby
- M?ndez Jota
- Czardas
- Chiapanecas
- Tico-Tico
- Flight of the Bumblebee
- Dark Eyes
- I Know That You Know
- Yuba
- Mexican Hat Dance
- Farewell, My Granada
- Danse Boheme [From Carmen]
- M?ndez Czardas
- Mendelssohn Concerto
- Bell Song [From Lakm?]
- Samba Gitana
- Rosita
- Zigeunerweisen
Music reviews of The Legendary Trumpet Virtuosity of Rafael Mendez
Music Review: Love The Music, However Sound Quality Is Not Great
Rating: 3 Stars
I had this album, or one very close to it, on vinyl and finally bought the record on CD. From a musical start as Panch Villa's cornetist, Rafel Mendez assended to a renown career as a soloist and recording artist and is known as the "World's Greatest Trumpeteer". This record has many all-time greats by Rafael Mendez including La Virgen, A Trumpeters Lullaby, Czardas, Mexican Hat Dance and the Flight of the Bumble Bee, to name only a few. Many of the tracks feature Mendez double tonguing for minutes while using circular breathing.
While the music itself is exceptional, the remastering of the music by Summit Records is awful. The volume of the CD varies from track to track and even if Mendez sounds good, the background instruments do not. In addition all of the tracks sound tinny or hollow making me wonder if the album was tracked to mono and then converted to stereo for the CD or something stupid like that. Because of this, all the richness of the original is gone and so much so that you cannot completely enjoy the greatness of the music. Extremely disappointing.
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Chamber Music > General
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( D ) > Delibes, L?o
- ( M ) > Mendelssohn, Felix
- ( S ) > Sarasate, Pablo de
- Forms & Genres > Concertos > General
- Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > General Contemporary
- Instruments > Strings > Violin
- Opera & Vocal > General
- World Music > Latin Music > Samba
- Jazz > General
- Vocal Jazz > Vocal Jazz General
- Miscellaneous > General
- Pop > Vocal Pop > General
- Mendelssohn, Felix - Works by Mendelssohn
- Classical - Featured Composers, A-Z - ( D ) - Delibes, L?o - General
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