1 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Poor quality soundWednesday, March 09, 2005
The sound quality of this CD is so poor that I can't bear to listen to it. There is a lot of distortion. If I try to listen to the CD using headphones, then the channel separation becomes a problem; I hear one guitar and the singer's voice in one ear, and the other guitar (too loud) in the other ear. If I put the CD in my CD jukebox, then I cringe every time one of the songs on this disc is played, because it is recorded at a really high level, and that, combined with the distortion, hurts my ears.
1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:
The Queen of FadoFriday, January 28, 2005
To listent to Amália Rodrigues is to be hynotized by the sheer parodxical nature of life's eternal beaty and never-ending sadness. Never have I heard such a hauntingly beautiful voice. Her talent is unmatched. You may not understand her language, but the beauty is, you don't have to understand her words to understand her emotion.
2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Too wonderful for words Tuesday, January 11, 2005
This collection, spanning 1952-1970, has the best of the legendary Amalia Rodrigues and her Portuguese fado songs of love, longing, sadness and the sea.
Amalia's voice is incredibly expressive; rich, pure, poetic, tender, mysterious and aching with feeling. The songs have such romantic depth and melancholic beauty they'll caress you like silk, bathe you like moonlight and pierce you like lightning.
Nothing, nothing can touch this.
4 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:
A unique artist, a voice for the ages.Wednesday, January 05, 2005
It's easy to see how 'review inflation' can take over on Amazon. People can praise an artist too highly - a new artist who has just arrived might be compared to one who has a lifetime of achievment behind them, or people simply have their favorites, regardless of quality. With Amalia Rodrigues, there is no danger of such hyperbole. She was unique, her voice, singular. The breadth of emotion, passion, and sensitivity in her singing is astounding. You need not understand Portuguese for these songs to speak to you deeply, so immediate is her art, so genuine her delivery. If you are not familiar with the Queen of Fado, by all means, seek an audience as soon as possible. Highly, HIGHLY recommended.
4 out of 8 people found the following review helpful:
UNFORGETABLE AMALIA!...Sunday, May 30, 2004
This CD or any other Amalia's CD show us that AMALIA is FADO and FADO is AMALIA.It's absolutelly impossible another AMALIA.
God give me the pleasure of see and listen AMALIA !We pray now for AMALIA'S DVDs.Please, URGENTLY.