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At Home With Friends |  | Artist: Joshua Bell
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  93 reviews
Sales Rank: 145
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 752716
UPC: 886975271627
EAN: 0886975271627
ASIN: B002LMSWSC
Release Date: September 29, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | I Loves You Porgy featuring Chris Botti | | • | Come Again featuring Sting | | • | Oblivion featuring Carel Kraayenhof | | • | Cinema Paradiso featuring Josh Groban | | • | Para Tí featuring Tiempo Libre | | • | My Funny Valentine featuring Kristin Chenoweth | | • | Maybe So featuring Edgar Meyer, Sam Bush & Mike Marshall | | • | Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 3, Movement II featuring Sergei Rachmaninoff | | • | Eleanor Rigby featuring Frankie Moreno | | • | Rachmaninoff: O, Cease Thy Singing, Maiden Fair featuring Nathan Gunn | | • | Il Postino featuring Carel Kraayenhof | | • | Left Hand Song featuring Regina Spektor | | • | Chovendo Na Roseira featuring Dave Grusin | | • | Look Away featuring Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile | | • | Variant Moods: Duet for Sitar & Violin (abridged version) featuring Anoushka Shankar | | • | I'll Take Manhattan featuring Marvin Hamlisch |
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Album Description
At Home With Friends is inspired by Joshua Bell's fondness for hosting informal musicales in his Manhattan home. Join the Grammy Award-winning violinist as he celebrates the many musical friendships he has made over the years - a diverse group of artists sharing their love of music in an intimate setting. Features vocal and instrumental duets with Chris Botti, Sting, Josh Groban, Kristin Chenoweth, Regina Spektor and many others.
Album Description
2009 album from the violin virtuoso featuring guest appearances from Sting, Regina Spektor, Josh Groban and Jazz trumpeter Chris Botti. The sixteen song set, which also features appearances by Dave Grusin and Anoushka Shankar, was born out of the informal jam sessions Bell regularly holds at his house. Bell shows off a wide range of styles, from Jazz to Classical to Appalachian-inspired instrumentals, as well as dipping into Opera, Latin influences and Pop music.
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 A beauty so intense it aches your soul November 18, 2009
Miss Daphne (Orting, Washington)
This CD is just amazing. It brings me to tears with his simple beauty and love of the violin. I grew up with a grandpa that played viola in the Seattle Symphany who played the organ, and piano as well. Listening to Joshua Bell perform with his friends is a treat for the ears. Cinema Padadiso with Josh Groban singing is beyond words.
I love the sound of the violin and as I close my eyes I am put at peace. I will be buying other CDs by this wonderful musician and giving some as gifts as well!
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 Not My Style of Music November 18, 2009
Leah J. Layton
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I appreciate this young man's talent. He truely has a gift. I just didn't care for this particular style of music. Nothing against his music understand, just not my preference. J. Layton,In.
SUPERB November 12, 2009
Maire Threasa (Boston)
What can I say except simply superb, a perfect compilation.
This is an absolutely incredible album.
 Bell has an eclectic group of friends - sometimes too eclectic November 9, 2009
Steven I. Ramm (Phila, PA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bell is a a near genius when playing his violin and has enough power with the recording companies to make any project he wants. On this CD he tries to show the breadth of his musical interests from classical to jazz (smooth and mainstream); pop standards (Gershwin) and movie scores to world music. It may show off his talents but for most listeners it may be too broad a spectrum. While the tracks with Josh Grobman, Marvin Hamlisch and Kristin Chenoweth make nice background music, the NINE-minute duet with sitar player Anoushka Shankar, goes on way too long. (And this is the ABRIDGED version of the piece.).
While many of the artists who accompany Bell on the selections just might be his friends, Sergei Rachmaninoff obviously could not be one of them. Bell plays along with a re-performance of the legendary composer and pianist from a 1928 recording using the fascinating new Zenph computer system which transfers the performer's recording to a real piano. (Sony/BMG has two other CDs utilizing this process.). It works well here too.
This is obviously a "crossover" album similar to Yo-Yo Ma's CD of last year (which I found superior and play often. But if, by using these better known "friends" - like Sting and Grobman- Bell gets more folks interested in classical music, this certainly isn't a bad thing.
Steve Ramm
"Anything Phonographic"
Music by a Man of Many Talents November 6, 2009
Naomi L. Levy (Salt Lake City)
I have most of CDs that Joshua Bell has recorded. In addition, I have been fortunate enough to see him in person when he performed at Libby Gardner Hall at the University of Utah, when he opened the season for the Utah Symphony,and when he
played with the Denver Symphony. He is a extremely talented violinist.
When I learned that he was had released his latest album,I had no idea which friends he decided to play with him. All I knew was that I had to have the album
as soon as possible.Did not care what the time of day it was, I just had to order the album from Amazon as I knew I would receive it very quickly.
The morning I received the album, was a work day and most of my neighbors were not home, at least that was what I though. Turned up the sound a little louder than I normally listen to music. It was a nics day and I had the screen door open. Before
I knew it, one of my neighbors stopped by to tell me that enjoyed listen to the album while that where do some work on their patio.
All I can tell you if Joshhua Bell has many wonderful friends and I hope that he
well record another album like this. If you like the various genre of music that is available, you will enjoy Joshua new album.At Home With Friends
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