Amargura can be considered Radamés Gnattali and Alberto Ribeiro's best known and most recorded song. Composed in 1950 for the film Aglaia, by Rui Santos, this 'samba-cação' was released on disc that same year, by the record label Continental, in the voice of singer Lucio Alves. /// Since then Amargura has been re-recorded by singers and instrumentalists of various generations, such as Chiquinho do Acordeom (1956), Epaminondas (1956), Radamés (1958), Sylvia Telles (1958), Maysa (1959) Vera Lucia (1959), Heleninha Costa (1960), Sexteto Radamés Gnattali (1961), Radamés (1964), Tito Madi (1966), Luiz Eça (1976), Nana Caymmi (1979), Claudia Savaget (1985), Pery Ribeiro and Luiz Eça (1986), Chiquinho do Acordeom and Orquestra de cordas Brasileiras (1990), Jane Duboc/Zezé Gonzaga (1998), Pedro Paulo Malta (2003), Jota Moraes and Mauro Senise (2005), Alaíde Costa and João Carlos Assis Brasil (2006), Novo Quinteto (2006), Zé Renato/Caio Marcio/Marcos Nimrichter (2006), Luna Messina (2010), Estrella Morente (2014), Leo Gandelman (2014), Teca Calazans and Camerata Brasilis (2015), among others.
Author's handwriting in pencil, of the accompanying piano part, without the melody.