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The very best of the greatest Mexican singer. Chavela Vargas, the greatest Mexican singer, with her unique art and her universal standing: a powerful voice, that she tames like a wild beast and that she leads where she wants; scratched husky and gravelly tessitura.This album gathers the most famous songs by Chavela Vargas in this “ranchera” style, in which the shout-shaped rough accents and prayers give life in her intense angle. La Llorona, No Volvere, Rayando el Sol, Un Mundo Raro… The mythical recordingds made in the RCA Victor Mexicana studios.

PIANISTS - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Michel Béroff, Philippe Cassard, Bertrand Chamayou, Aldo Ciccolini, Jean-Philippe Collard, Jérôme Ducros, Jacques Février, Samson François, Martha Argerich, Yuri Egorov

INSTRUMENTALISTS - Renaud Capuçon, Maurice Gendron, Emmanuel Pahud, Lily Laskine, Quatuor Ebène, Yehudi Menuhin, Itzhak Perlman

SINGERS - Roberto Alagna, Natalie Dessay, Karina Gauvin, Véronique Gens, Philippe Jaroussky, François Le Roux, Mady Mesplé, Gérard Souzay, José van Dam, Rachel Yakar, Elly Ameling, Barbara Hendricks 

CONDUCTORS - André Cluytens, Jean Martinon, Michel Plasson, Manuel Rosenthal, François-Xavier Roth, Daniel Barenboim, Carlo Maria Giulini, Armin Jordan, Kent Nagano, Sir Simon Rattle

Joyce DiDonato, Ailyn Perez, Frederica von Stade, Nathan Gunn, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Patrick Summers

40th Anniversary Expanded Edition. Includes - The original album, ten previously unreleased live recordings from the Forum in 1976, and expanded booklet with rare photos and memorabilia.