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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0696998935822
Item Dimensions: 21
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
MPN: 89358
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Studio: Sony
Disc 1:- West Side Story Suite
- Lonely Town
- Make Our Garden Grow
- -8. Serenade
- New York, New York
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential recording:
This all-Bernstein disc includes four compositions in addition to the title piece, of which only the "Serenade" was originally written for solo violin and orchestra. John Corigliano made the arrangement of "Make Our Garden Grow," the famous final song from Candide, and William David Brohn, who had long been close to Bernstein's music, arranged two songs from On the Town. His West Side Story Suite is a free adaptation rather than an arrangement; he calls it the greatest adventure of his musical life.
However, the real hero of the recording is Joshua Bell, for whom Sony commissioned the Suite; he collaborated closely with Brohn in its creation and contributed one of the two cadenzas. Not surprisingly, its violin part, as well as those of the other arrangements, are written to his strengths, which seem to be growing and expanding all the time. His virtuosity is breathtaking and he revels in it with unbridled exuberance. His tone is ravishingly beautiful, intense, focused, pure; it can generate a warm glow and a radiant shimmer. His facility and silvery sound in the violin's topmost register have always been particularly striking and are displayed throughout to terrific effect. He handles Bernstein's multifaceted style, rhythm, and idiom with easy, natural mastery. His love and respect for the music come through in his ability to identify with its swiftly changing moods and in his strongly felt, direct expressiveness. --Edith Eisler
Average Rating: 
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Joshua Bell is up to his usual seemingly casually executed double-stops and blistering scales, but what makes this CD special is William David Brohn's loving arrangement, "West Side Story Suite." I'll depart slightly from the other glowing reviews to say that there are a few less than compelling passages in this "suite," but the rest of it sparkles so brightly you'll hardly notice.
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the product is fine but Amazon is not - one CD was ordered, two were sent and charged to me. Also, the charge was to my 7 year old grandson on your invoice. I don't know how else to tell you this - no form from you is available to right the wrong!
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Just for getting this performance of the West Side Story Suite this CD is well worth it.
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These pieces are really concertos for violin and orchestra, based on works by Leonard Bernstein: The lengthy "West Side Story Suite," selections from his musical "On the Town," "Candide," and "Plato's Symposium." Joshua Bell's playing is lucid, effortless, and spectacular.
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I have been fortunate enough to have seen Joshua Bell perform this piece live! He interprets the piece so well, playing tenderly, magically, casually, and with a in-your-face quality that outlines the character of this piece so well. West-Side Story has been interpreted beautifully into a suite almost resembling a Violin Concerto.
The sound quality in this recording is superb and sparkling, as if live.
This is a must-have for any music library.
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