Joshua Bell - Romance Of The Violin
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Track List: Romance Of The Violin
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Album Details: Romance Of The Violin
- Release Date:
- 10/28/2003
- Label:
- Sony
- UPC:
- 696998789425
User Reviews: Romance Of The Violin
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Best of the year!
, October 21, 2003Reviewer: mikejnolan2002 - See all mikejnolan2002's reviews
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Pro Reviews: Romance Of The Violin
| EXPERT RATING: No Rating From AMG Reviews This CD from the young American violin phenomenon Joshua Bell will fill the bill for background music in restaurants with a lot of velour, and it might be nice for the car CD player on a latenight cruise along the shore. For others, however, it may be a bit of a bore. The disc offers 50plus minutes of sheer melody, all of it in nearly the same moderate tempo. Despite its name, most of the music on this release is arranged for violin and orchestra from vocal or keyboard pieces; there is one cello work, the "Swan" section of SaintSaëns' Carnival of the Animals, and the closest thing to original violin music is the Nocturne movement from Borodin's String Quartet No. 2. There are several operatic melodies ("O mio babbino caro," "Casta diva," and, more surprisingly, "Pur ti miro" from Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea), and some short piano tunes. Romance of the Violin is essentially a classical greatesthits collection, one of many available, and more expensive than most at a hefty 18.98 list. The orchestral arrangements are by pop producer Craig Leon, and though they're precisely rendered by the Academy of St. MartinintheFields in the finest sound Sony has to offer, they have a very familiar kind of sameness. Romance needn't be, shouldn't be, so monochrome, and this is a lateral move at best for Bell, who has shown great promise as the player who might bridge the gap between classical music's traditional listenership and its new crossover audiences. |
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Joshua Bell Biography
Internationally known violinist Joshua Bell has performed with all the major orchestras and is proficient in the works of Beethoven, Lalo, Tchaikovsky and Wieniawski. He is known for both his contemporary and classical repertoire.
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Pros: Josh Bell's violin / the overall production value of the album
Cons: none
This is the best classical album of the year! Josh Bell plays with more passion than any contemporary violinist. Even non-classical music fans will love it!