Lecuona - Rapsodia Cubana (on Cuban Airs)

[GeoJDr]

Beautiful... just beautiful.

[cseaavalosroger]

THI IS THE REAL TRUE BEUTY , of A True RICH CULTURE , The MOST TRUE MASTERPIECES. WHICH ARE "PRECISELY CUBAN "- NOT THE COMMUNISTS DEMAGOGUES, WHOM, HAVE DESTROYED, -1959, TILL TODAY , though raised In N.Y., I Was born In "- La HABANA. , CUBA.

[6432017c]

Dad, you were a musical genius

[6432017c]

Dad, you were a musical genious

[AssassinsCreedHalo]

2:55

bellissima (great)

[LOVE47ist]

Admiro la música y sus grandes intérprets y compositores!!!!Te amo cuba por la riqueza musical que supiste transmitir a todo el mundo!!!!!!Esta en especial estoy oyendo...¡¡¡me embeleza el alma!!!!!

[themailman43]

Wow, what wonderful memories. This music takes me back to my childhood in Havana. My Havana, that enchanted city that i've never forgotten and hopefully one day will be able to go back to. My Havana, a city frozen in time in 1959 and partially destroyed by the terribe dictatorship nowadays.

[Nsilfx]

Thank you so much for posting this great music. This reminds me of beautiful childhood memories running through the white sandy beaches in Cuba. Varadero beach being my favorite and where many of my birthdays were celebrated is the one that comes to mind.

[cantineroXXX]

Cuando escuchamos esta música nos damos cuenta por qué los cubanos no podemos olvidar a nuestra isla querida. Vivimos pegados a ella como el árbol a su tierra con su fuerte raiz. Se puede talar el árbol, mas no la raiz.

[bsj251]

Se llora con el alma , se regresa a esas calles las cuales recori sin zapatos y no porque no los alla tenido, si no porque era niño y amaba sentir la Tierra de mi Tirra entre mis dedos dorados por el sol de una Cuba sin libertad , pero con musica en sus entrañas . Y la musica siempre es libre señores .

[jesuspelaezdelgado]

nadie mejor de lecuona para hacer una maravilla de la obra de jose white...cuanta cubania en esa musica...en ese piano y en esos violines esta la esencia del cubano...esperamos en dios cuba vuelva a retomar su cause after castros times.gracias

[erniefloridarep]

This is truly a beautiful piece by Jose White, although Lecuona is noted as one of the artists who made it very popular. If you go on Google, you can find so many variations of this piece that it boggles the mind. I recently listened to a piece by Yalil Guerra that I thought was well done. But the most interesting piece I've seen on Google/Youtube was by Crowden school in CA. It's good to see the younger take this up. I give you the link but then I can't post. Just look it up.

[MadhouseCubano]

gracias.

[cantineroXXX]

¡Cuánta cubanía, por Dios! Ojalá Silvio Rodríguez hubiera estudiado mas a Lecuona y a estos clásicos para que sus composiciones fueran mas cubanas

[gladysCJ]

The Cuban Rhapsody as refers Ignacio Cevantes is a "Pot-pourri of National Airs"... in this Rhapsody the first air is the habanera "Bella Cubana" of Jose White, the second one (3:00), the "Habanera tu" of Sanchez de Fuentes...

[gladysCJ]

esta bella obra no es del gran Lecuona, es la Bella Cubana de José White !!! (nació en Matanzas en 1835 y murió en París en 1918. Llegó a decirse que era el Paganini cubano). 

[juanm252003]

el tiempo no permitio conocer al apostol,tan sublime pieza,una oda se hubiera elevado.

[TheAg50055]

Que belleza! Viva Cuba y su musica!!

[aircat29]

Que bella mi Cuba ! escucho esta musica y me parece que estoy caminando por Galiano rumbo al Capitolio y de ahi rumbeo hasta el Floridita y le doy por Obispo hasta la Catedral y sigo para el puerto cruzo con la lanchita de Regla y veo atardecer a los pies del Cristo de La Habana, mientras el Costa Playa atraca en su lujoso muelle, nuevamente tengo 22 años y estoy allà...

[GalizianUrbanProject]

there's a mistake. Lecuona was a great composer but we have to make justice: this piece was composed by José White at the end of the XIX. The name of this wonderfull piece is "la bella cubana", and it was originally played by a string quartet.

-Fran- From Galicia (Spain)

[aircat29]

@GalizianUrbanProject that is true...!!! theres 2 or 3 records of this beautifull piece on this site once is really ancient...

[Zxnti]

Is A Beautifull Musical piece

I Just love It...!!.

[Drumric305]

esa clave me tiene nerviosa!!!

[aircat29]

@Drumric305 Dan ganas de salir a arrollar no?

[Centrotoma]

Hello everyone! Don´t you have sheets for Lecuona´s piano pieces with orchestra? Having thousands of pdf piano sheets, I haven´t managed to find it.

[2546aug]

Esto si es musica, lo transporta a uno a otra dimension, esquisita.

Gracias por este lindo video. Viva Cuba y su excelente musica.

[javi1471]

Grande Lecuona, cubano de padres españoles, como tantos otros por aquella epoca, murio en tenerife visitando la tierra natal de sus antepasados.

[candelacub]

@javi1471

Su padre era canario pero su madre era cubana.

[viticoeldelmanana]

EL MUSICO CUBANO MAS GRANDE DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS !!!!!!!!! ARRIBA CUBA CONOOOOOO

[eelmonaco]

esto si que parte el corazon

[maladro1]

This is what the "real true Cuban music" was about. The composer, and piano player, Ernesto Lecuona, one of the genius of Cuban music from the late l880's to 1963.

[gemanai]

thank you 

[pcllerena]

que cosa mas linda. No hay nada como la musica Cubana

[luiskuramathi]

Impresionante. Piel de gallina y ojos hùmedos. Gracias desde argentina imusiciki un abrazo luis

[cantineroXXX]

Qué triste es saber que los restos de Lecuona yacen en EEUU porque no quiso ser enterrado en Cuba mientras estuviera la tiranía castrista.

MAESTRO LECUONA: LOS CUBANOS Y EL MUNDO TE DEBEN TU DEFINITIVO ENTIERRO EN TU PATRIA LIBRE, PARA QUE DE VERDAD DESCANSES EN PAZ. Algún día será, Maestro, algún día.

[LastUser1000]

Oh Dios mio..U have Lecuona in your youtube place?.my GrandMa that was born in Cuba used to talk 2 me about him and i did the same thing to my kids(my daughter hates my speech)so they know were we come from.also my GrandMa say that Carlos gardel was the best and she lived her life after him.this music is so great and it brings the Cuban in me.

[maladro1]

This composer was true genius for music. This makes me proud of having born in Cuba. May God bless you Maestro Lecuona!

This is a Rhapsody, could only be compared to Rhapsody in Blue of Gershwin...

[maladro1]

This composer was true genius for music. This makes me proud of having born in Cuba. May God bless you Maestro Lecuona!

[all4musica]

Ernesto Lecuona was a famous Cuban composer. Malaguena is one of his beautiful compositions, aside from this one and many others~Beautiful~Thank you for posting~

[onasugol]

Lo mejor de Cuba.

[Any2267ful]

Si muy hermoso y muy triste!!,como la historia de cuba.Esta pieza es una joya musical llena de una infinita cubania que irradia en todo su esplendor.Es una vivisima representacion de mi cuba querida de sus raices mas profundas,de su cultura y su musica y de su gente que a pesar de tantos sufrimientos a lo largo de tantas penas y desdichas aun sonrrie,baila y hace muy buena musica como esta por ej.

[HarveyTruffaut]

This is just sublime. It feels like flying. Immense.

[scottygirlify]

Thank you SO, SO very much for the musical history lesson, I learned something new today. I am a piano player and never knew who he actually was; I love this music, it touches the soul. Please post more if you can and thank you again from one music lover to another!

[ObaNarayanShivaji999]

So grand this is.

[cantineroXXX]

Escuchar esta música es volverse a sentir en Cuba, un sueño que esperamos hacerlo realidad. Queremos que nuestros niños y jóvenes cubanos, hoy en el destierro, lleguen a sentirla también como suya. Esta es Cuba, y Cuba es de ellos, que algún día tendrán la misión de ayudar a hacerla libre. Una Patria sin tiranías.

[HarveyTruffaut]

@cantineroXXX hojala

[Any2267ful]

Amo esta musica porque es bella y sobre todo porque me encierra en un ambiente de adsoluta cubania.La escucho y me parece estar respirando el aire de mi amada patria querida.

[HarveyTruffaut]

@Any2267ful  maravilloso

[celita2]

@Any2267ful

Que hermoso y que triste.

[mikelaranzu]

Realmente hermoso, desde que descubrí al maestro Lecuona no dejo de emocionarme con su música. Por favor, que nadie lo manipule políticamente, hoy es un genio universal de la Cuba profunda e inmortal, nada importa que no fuera comunista o que fuera homosexual, es ya patromonio de la Humanidad. !Gracias maestro¡ Un día quisiera escuchar la Rapsodia en La Habana entre lágrimas, sudor y alegría en companía de la persona amada...

[irrevocable18]

Lecuona is the best coposer of piano music ever. I personally learned Granada, Gitanerias, and Malaguena. all very difficult, but worth the practice. word of caution, do not get sheet music arranged by someone else it isnt as good.

[Joss2012]

Ernesto Lecuona y Casado (August 6, 1895 Guanabacoa, Havana, Cuba - November 29, 1963 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain) was a Cuban composer and pianist of Basque descent, and world-wide fame. He composed over six hundred pieces, mostly in the Cuban vein, and was a pianist of exceptional quality.

[refaful]

gracias senior Tirino,muchas gracias,

[solbrisse]

wow, so nice!!, thanks for sharing

[Any2267ful]

Esta musica encierra toda nuestra cubania!!!.Es autenticamente cubana.El maestro Lecuona,uno de los grandes genios musicales del mundo.Un talentoso genio cubano.

[bsj251]

Lecuona from CUBA to the WORLD .

[mozart230647]

Una breve pero interesante biografía del gran compositor y pianista cubano Ernesto Lecuona...

[passalapassa]

Bravo grande maestro Lecuona!!! Grazie Kostas e imusiciki.

[chris68167]

beautiful

[LoooSiZ]

Just beautiful. no need to say more than that :)

[sterren7logos]

x x x x x x x x x x

[wien1000]

Bellissima.

[kostgian]

a trully genious artist with fully hopes-melancoly music!!!!

[andreas111075]

fascinating music, congratulations!

[kalimaneando]

¡BRAVO, MAESTRO!

[galego4]

La Bella Cubana was composed by Jose White, from Matanzas. My wife was born in a small town in Matanzas. When we first met in Medical School, we would go to a small restaurant every Monday and drink coffee, while I had the Juke Box play this song.

[TheBenicassim]

Que romantico!!!! I love Lecuona too. Everytime I hear this music melancolics thoughts come to my mind. Beautiful!!!!

[ejcanalesr]

The best compositor of Cuba, he was a genious...

hey fabrizzzio48, if we follows this idea then Albert Einstein is an African cittizen, due to the human was "created" in Africa ...jajaja

[yeahbyme]

Stop bickering and enjoy this sublime music.

[Richz117]

Lecuona based himself upon all CUBAN folk songs, wish there are planty to shoce from. He was a master in composition and utilizing the same techniques as the Guajiros, in their tipical songs, utilizing cuban instrumets to give his songs the sence of nationalism they needed.

[07cobre1]

It seem to me "SE FUE" in spanish.

[Dukewalkie]

what's the exact name of the piece between 3.38 - 4.51 ??

[willdi5]

La Bella Cubana. which means the beautiful Cuban Woman

[derekmanzano]

I thought it was Beautiful Cuba. Bella Cuba. You could be right, I don't know.

[Dukewalkie]

first I heard that tune in the movie "Godfather" and since then I was hopelessly searching for that thank you very very much for sharing this totally awesome!!!!

[leonardbest5]

que belleza

[lucinkarey]

Gracias a los cubanos por legarnos su música.

[iroco96]

amazing!!!

[miluperez]

hermosisimo

excelente gusto de quien la subio

por favor no olvidemos nunca su legado

cubita linda

[sonidobestial]

La Bella Cubana es composicion del gran Jose White.

[albertdiner]

This piece is made up of LA BELLA

CUBANA and HABANERA,TU, a third piece which I don´t know the name.

These were not written by ERNESTO

LECUONA, but he united them into

a Cuban Rhapsody. People should not

assume that these were also by LECUONA.

[wpowu88]

I like the music very much.

The background information is good. Anybody knows the third piece of this Cuban Rhapsody.

[tomistocles]

The third "piece" is a collection of airs, some of them of Mexican inspiration (like the jarabe tapatío).

The orchestration, with castanets and a slow use of the claves, is not particularly Cuban. It sounds like the American popularization of Cuban music in the 50s.

[fabrizzzio48]

Totally out of wack.

There is a CUBAN ZAPATEADO, nothing of Mexican Jarabe Tapatio.

The claves are veeery Cuban. Sure, castanets are typically Spanish, but Hey! Cuba WAS Spain for about 400 YEARS!

American popularization by Lecuona, go on keep making a fool of yourself.

There should be a rule in You Tube, If you are an ignorant on the subject DON"T COMMENT!

[tribecaliz]

tienes razon...but you know everyone lumps all hispanics together..

un abrazo.

[PetrusRuppert]

By commenting on things we don't know about is how we learn when we are corrected by those such as you who are knowlegable..

[barcoenaltamar]

Es sorprendente la creatividad que poseía Lecuona... compuso desde obras inspiradas en la música de su país hasta zarzuela y piezas evocadoras de una España que ni siquiera conocía, pasando por valses en la más pura tradición del siglo XIX. Estos últimos y sus obras infantiles son verdaderamente encantadores...

Es un músico que definitivamente no ha obtenido la fama que merece.

[alderraman]

Ernesto Lecuona,fué el primer Músico que llevó una banda latina a los Estados Unidos.

Hizo de la Zarzuela Española,un género y Baile Cubano.

Su repertorio se basa en Danzones,Sinfónicas,Zarzuelas y Música Clásica.

Lecuona junto a Rodrigo Prats y Gonzalo Roig son los compositores mas grandes de toda la Historia musical Cubana.

Lecuona un prodigio de las teclas,y uno de los mejores Pianistas clásicos en Cuba junto a Antonio María Romeáu e Ignacio Cervántes...Crystopher

[2cubanito4u]

puedo caminar por los campos y las ciudades de mi linda cuba simplemente cerrendo mis ojos y oyendo esta hermosa rapsodia.gracias por este pedazo de patria!

[chitamiranda]

Es conmovedor este video donde Lecuona se manifiesta como un autentico patriota, ojalá se divulgue como una obra maestra del arte y del quehacer habanero...............

[Nestmari]

Buenos días, agradecería si alguien tiene la partitura de la Rapsodia cubana de Ernesto Lecuona me la enviara a mi correo electrónico, si no es así y alguien puede decirme donde la puedo encontrar también me será de gran ayuda. Mi hijo es pianista y lleva mucho tiempo buscándola sin encontrarla. Gracias de antemano y un saludo.

[lau399]

Esto me hizo llorar!!!! recordar es volver a vivir!!!! mi Cuba bella cuanto sueno por volverte a ver, y que ya sea libre!!! siento mucha nostalgia! gracias por el video!

[mellotron12]

Nice piece. Thank you for introducing me to something new.

[imusiciki]

Your welcome mellotron12:)

[ApsisApocynthion]

Oh please-if you have more please post it. I'm very impressed.

[imusiciki]

I'll see what I can do.

[ApsisApocynthion]

Hahaha...Nice!

[megansspark]

this is deeply moving...new to me as well! thanks for the background information

[macciboma]

Interessante musica tra il classico ed il tradizionale, Piacevole all'ascolto grazie

del video. Walter.

[tHEnOOSEsWING]

An exciting, polished performance. Thank you.

[spitzenleiter]

Heart-throbbing !!

Thanks for posting a nice piece.

[imusiciki]

A little something different from what I normally upload: Cuban music:)

[cubancohiba23]

@imusiciki thank u for this man!