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Music : Buena Vista Social Club At Carnegie Hall(2 CD)In association with Amazon.com List Price: $24.98 Amazon.com's Price: $15.49 You Save: $9.49 (38%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0075597987317 Format: Live Label: Nonesuch Manufacturer: Nonesuch Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Nonesuch Release Date: October 14, 2008 Studio: Nonesuch Sales Rank: 308 MPN: 514415 Disc 1:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The landmark Buena Vista Social Club concert at Carnegie Hall-July 1, 1998-was both the start of a remarkable story and the culmination of a dream. This one-time-only event elevated veteran Cuban performers like Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez, Compay Segundo and Omara Portuondo to long-overdue status as international stars, and it transformed the BVSC's already critically acclaimed album into a commercial juggernaut. Since then, the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club, recorded at Havana's Egrem Studio by guitarist Ry Cooder, has sold over eight million copies, making it the best-selling world music album ever, and the 'Buena Vista Social Club Presents' imprimatur has come to represent an unwavering mark of quality. The evening also became the dramatic heart of German filmmaker Wim Wenders' popular, Oscar-nominated documentary, also called Buena Vista Social Club. No one who saw it could be unmoved by the sight of an elderly performer like Ferrer taking in the skyscraper vistas of New York City or being overwhelmed by rapturous applause after he sang. This live set, then, is the crucial link to everything that happened before or after the Buena Vista Social Club as a group of musicians and as a brand; it's the album fans have eagerly awaited for a decade. 'With the bittersweet delicacy of a classic bolero,' said The New York Times in a review of the concert, 'the Buena Vista Social Club simultaneously celebrated the vitality and virtuosity of its musicians and mourned the era they embody.' The cultural significance of BVSC's performance was matched by its political momentousness; this concert offered a rare opportunity for these master Cuban musicians, coming together for the first time as a single ensemble, to freely play their classic songs for an American audience. This two-CD set preserves an important, but sadly evanescent, moment when borders and bureaucracies miraculously disappeared in the name of art. As singer Portuondo, who would subsequently embark on her own successful American tour, recalled, 'I felt triumphant seeing how we all worked together as a group, seeing how the music reached the audience...We felt so elated to be able to share our music. All of us had known each other for many years and played together many times, but it was a unique and unrepeatable occasion that our culture and our roots could reach the public through such a beautiful concert with all of us there together on the stage.' To build awareness and anticipation for the live set, Nonesuch released a digital single of 'Chan Chan,' the concert's opening number and arguably the BVSC's signature song, on July 1, the 10th anniversary of the concert date. The two-disc package also includes candid, often quite moving, first-person reminiscences from many of the surviving participants about the days-and hours-leading up to the concert and the once-in-a-lifetime experience of the evening itself. As album producer and fellow performer Cooder puts it, 'Listening to the tapes of the concert for the first time in ten years, I'm struck by what an amazing musical event it was. You'll never hear it again, people of this caliber working together. They were dramatic personalities and they're nearly all gone. There's nobody left like that anymore.' Average Rating:
 Rating: - If you are not a fanheck even if you are not a fan you should get this.. Can't listen to it without tears in my eyes.. Hope a DVD of this performance is release. To the musicians that are gone , God Bless Your Souls. Rating:  - Live & TastyBetter than the original release--the musicians perform live for a very rich sound. Quality of sound puts one in 3rd row center at the concert. Rating: - Very good performance but it could have been released on one CDAlthough a big fan of Buena Vista Social Club and its performers, I was expecting the whole Carnegie Hall show including comments between songs and also the reprise of Chan Chan at the end of the show. I had the oportunity to see Compay Segundo twice and his comments between songs were worth the admission ticket for the show. The same could be said for Ibrahim which I also saw in concert. The performance and recording are very good, and considering the historic value of the event it ... Read More Rating: - Didn't think the original album could get any better?It does! More real, natural. less produced. buenisimo! I would give a body part to have been there at Carnegie Hall to see them live, in their finest moment. At least this gets me a little closer. One question? Where is the DVD? I am sure cameras were rolling, give it to us! Rating: - Do not wait to buy this CD.There are very rare times where you can find a real jewel in music and this is that time. Do not hesitate to get this CD. I can not stop playing it. Browse for similar items by category:
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