"Yet again Philips/Universal screws up. This is NOT the original recording of the Misa Luba; this one is pretty, but pales in comparison. I looked on the Decca UK website, and it lists these three masses, with a different cover, and states that the item includes both "the original 1960s recording" of the Misa Luba, along with the 1990 DVD version. I guess Philips doesn't think Americans will accept this earlier recording, and makes it available only in other countries. Corporate stupidity rules."
Feed your spirit
wphillips15 | MANUKAU, Auckland New Zealand | 12/13/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Jose Carreras is in heartbreakingly beautiful voice, the quality of sound is as good as it gets. This music is a wonderful offspring of traditional church, Creole, African and Flamenco. If music has anything to do with religion, God himself smiles on this disk. Essential."
Pity
Juan Pedro Lucas | Spain | 07/28/2005
(3 out of 5 stars)
"It is a pity that such a good voice is waisted in performing these wonderful messes which really require to be sung with the folkloric touch in which they were conceived and written"
ONLY ONE WAY STILL TO HEAR THE REAL MISA LUBA
C. Scanlon | among us humans | 09/11/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"and that is to get the English version of Pasolini's Gospel of Saint Matthew. Somehow the Misa Luba turns up as incidental and ending music instead of that orchestrated by the director! IOn any case it is an essential DVD [...]
and for the Misa Criolla instead of Carreras's reverence get the great and reverend voice of Mother Earth herself in Mercedes Sosa's Misa Criolla