Search - Cris Delanno :: Canta Newton Mendonca

(It ) (She) amazes me!

A Music Fan | san jose, costa rica | 12/18/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"(It) That a singer as gifted as this has apparently so few readily available recordings. I have five and am awaiting her most recent release, due out soon. But only six? That's simply an injustice to all who love truly great singing.



(She) How to adequately do justice to a voice and an interpretive intelligence of this quality? Her version of "Caminos Cruzados" alone is worth the price of this CD, but as with everything she does there's not a clam in the bunch.



Again, she works with Roberto Menescal, this time in full orchestral settings of works associated with Newton Mendonca. And her selections from the composer's all too short songbook make a case for his importance beyond his association with Jobim far more eloquently than all the critical appreciations of him ever written. Listen to her singing, for example, Cancao de Pescador and see if you don't agree.



When I listen to Cris, I'm always reminded of something I read in a biography of John Coltrane. If he could sing, he supposedly once told an interviewer, he wouldn't have had any need for his sax. For my part, as a life long free thinker I think the closest I ever come to seriously considering the possibility of a divinity is when I hear a voice like that of Cris Delanno.



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