'Lecuona: Ernesto and Ernestina'

Ernesto Lecuona was probably the most important musician in Cuban musical life during the first half of the 20th century. Lecuona was an amazingly versatile composer who wrote for several genres and was probably the first sucessful "crossover" musician. Lecuona's greatest gift is his ability to embed Afro-Cuban music in his own works, producing fabulous collections of Dances for piano as heard in his Danzas Afro-Cubanas with it's variety of rhythms, melodies and keyboards textures.