by: Claude Debussy, Fryderyk Chopin, Camille Saint-Saens, Franz Schubert, Vincenzo Bellini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Alexander Borodin, Antonin Dvorak, Claudio Monteverdi, Jules Massenet, Robert Schumann, Michael Stern, Craig Ogden, Gregory Knowles, John Constable, Jacob Heringman, Stephen Orton
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0696998789425
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Sales Rank: 907
Studio: Sony
Disc 1:- O mio babbino caro (from 'Gianni Schicchi')
- The Girl With Flaxen Hair (from Preludes, Book I; La fille aux cheveux delin: Prelude for Piano L 117/8)
- Nocturne in C sharp minor (Op Post)
- The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals)
- Serenade (from 'Schwanengesang' song cycle for voice and piano, D 957
- Casta Diva (from 'Norma')
- Andante from Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major K. 467
- Nocturne from Quartet for Strings No. 2 in D Major: 3rd movement
- Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from 'Orfeo ed Euridice')
- Songs My Mother Taught Me, song for voice and piano B104/4 Op 55/4
- Pur ti Miro (from 'L'incoronazione di Poppea')
- Elegie (Elegie 'O doux printemps d'autrefois' for voice and piano)
- Traumerei ('Kinderszenen' for piano, Op 15, No. 7 'Dreaming')
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Every track on this CD contains a beautiful melody, many of them easily recognizable, all of them exuding tranquility. 'O mio babbino caro' from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi opens the disc, with Bell delicately accompanied by a harp and spinning the long melody with great sensitivity. Bellini's 'Casta diva' from Norma lives up to its reputation as the epitome of bel canto in Bell's hands; his violin sings. The middle movement of Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto takes well to the violin, and Debussy's 'The Girl with the Flaxen Hair' is played with great warmth and sensuality. It would be easy to turn a recital like this into treacle, but Bell is wise enough to realize that the music is already sweet enough and he plays with great reserve and a minimum of sentimental slides. The light accompaniments always support, with woodwinds prominent but used with grace. This CD, in short, is a beauty: a fine gift, a lovely mood setter. --Robert Levine
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Rating:  - Joshua Bell Classical Violin Review
Without a doubt, this is one of the top 10 of my 700 CD collection. Johsua is the finest violinist of our time...period!
Rating:  - CD Romance of the Violin (Joshua Bell)
Delivery was a bit slow and the CD came with a cracked jewel case. Great music by a great master.
Rating: - "Without music life would be an error."~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
To all but the music barbarian, it is axiomatic that the music of Chopin and Puccini is exceptional. An exceptional musician can perform pieces such as, "O MIO BABBINO CARO" and "NOCTURNE", in a way that showers us with unexpected and previously unknown pleasure.
I have never experienced a performance of "CAST A AIVA" as spectacular as Joshua Bell's. I still can't decide what piece on this album is my favorite.
Each piece is a well known great melody, but with Bell combining them all on one album, he left his unique touch. You can hear his soul flow passionately and beautifully from the strings of his instrument. I was left asking my self, is he making love with his violin or is he only making music?
Rating:  - The paradox of sensitivity and sentimentality
The sumptuous tone that characterises Joshua Bell's CD provides what promises to be a brilliant listening experience. But for me there is a very fine line between sensitivity and sentimentality and too often he slithers over into unlovely swoops and slurs. Lush lyricism or sloppy sentiment? I don't think I will be listening to this CD very often but I will buy his interpretation of Tchaikovsky's Violin concerto which is a wonderful test of sensitivity v. sentimentality and see whether he will let the great composer speak.
Rating: - Romance of the Violin
Great violin work. Take your time to listen to it in its entirety. You will be trasported to the concert hall without being there.
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