This Double CD, ˝Lagrimas Negras (Black Tears), Canciones Y Boleros˝, is the Result of an Interpretive Creation Full of Feeling, Intimacy, and Naturalness.
Portuondo Preferred to Join Together Those Ingredients and Not Others: She Returned to the Latin American Popular Classics to Violeta Parra, to Virgilio Gonzalez, to Alberto Vera, to Eusebio Delfin- with a Difficult to Imagine Ensemble Consisting of Enriqueta Almanza’s Piano and that of the Great Ruben Gonzalez, Richard Egües’s Flute, the Bass of ˝Cachaito˝, Or the ˝Greco˝ and the ˝Guajiro˝ Mirabal’s Art in Unraveling the Mysteries of the Brass Instruments, in Addition to Amadito Valdes’s Paila with Afrocuban Rhythms and the Tasty Percussion of Hernan Cortes, Roberto Garcia, and Osvaldo Rodríguez, Without Forgetting Martin Rojas’s Magnificent Guitar.