Ultimate Collection
This collection includes Ernesto Lecuona's complete 1954 recordings plus  a series of 78s made in 1927-28. Ten of the recordings were previously  unreleased. This is a lot of lightweight Cuban piano music to deal with at once,  but it's definitely worth doing. Lecuona's music, which is having a major  revival, may not be important. But it's consistently charming and entertaining.  The 78s, which sound surprisingly good, reveal even more of a virtuoso than do  the later recordings, but throughout we hear playing that expresses the spirit  of the music extremely well. And yes, the famousMalagueñais here,  sounding very sexy.--Leslie Gerber