At Home With Friends

Joshua Bell - At Home With Friends

At Home With Friends
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Artist: Joshua Bell
Brand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-09-29
Model: 886975271627
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. I Loves You Porgy featuring Chris Botti
  2. Come Again featuring Sting
  3. Oblivion featuring Carel Kraayenhof
  4. Cinema Paradiso featuring Josh Groban
  5. Para Tí featuring Tiempo Libre
  6. My Funny Valentine featuring Kristin Chenoweth
  7. Maybe So featuring Edgar Meyer, Sam Bush & Mike Marshall
  8. Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 3, Movement II featuring Sergei Rachmaninoff
  9. Eleanor Rigby featuring Frankie Moreno
  10. Rachmaninoff: O, Cease Thy Singing, Maiden Fair featuring Nathan Gunn
  11. Il Postino featuring Carel Kraayenhof
  12. Left Hand Song featuring Regina Spektor
  13. Chovendo Na Roseira featuring Dave Grusin
  14. Look Away featuring Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile
  15. Variant Moods: Duet for Sitar & Violin (abridged version) featuring Anoushka Shankar
  16. I'll Take Manhattan featuring Marvin Hamlisch

Music reviews of At Home With Friends

Music Review: Bell touches all around him with his swooning high Romantic style
Rating: 4 Stars

Lots of variation in the guests--everything but a musical saw. Two things hold this evening together. First, a similar mood of quiet intensity in a small, simple setting pervades everything. Some quiet is wistful, dreamy, and reflective. Some feels like it is about to explode, unable to contain the passions within. Second, Bell's fluid, high Romantic style seems simply to flow from him into every setting, no matter how much he and his guests differ. He seems to have an inner energy that must reach out and touch all the variation around him.

Track detail (S = stand out):

1. I loves you Porgy (Gershwin). With Chris Botti (trumpet) and chamber ensemble. Mellow, musing, effective evening music. Quietly content, happy, dreamily carefree.

2. Come again (John Dowland). With Sting and chamber ensemble. Sting fairly convincingly croons a Baroque song that could easily be from Handel. Quietly spritely in a very well-behaved way.

3. Oblivion (Piazzollo) (S). With Carel Kraayenhof (bandeneon) and a group in standard tango configuration. Slow, deliberate, but wistful tango. Bell swoons in his full, high Romantic style.

4. Cinema paradise (Ennio Morricone/Josh Groban) (S). With J. Groban, who sings in Italian with complete command. Bell supports Groban from behind. Quiet, heartfelt, Groban and Bell swoon grandly along different lines within a confined space; they suit each other well.

5. Para tí (Jorge Gómez). With Tiempo Libre. Hot, jazzy salsa in a quick step. Bell breaks in to slow things down. TL tempers its pace, but steadily works back to their high-stepping, swinging salsa. All come together, Bell swaying in slow motion, TL locomoting to brazen rhythms behind. Bell breaks in with them for a final race to the end.

6. My funny valentine (Rodgers/Hart). With Kristen Chenoweth (vocal). Spare presentation closely highlights them and a piano in counterpoint. Lovely Broadway in a restrained chamber setting. Romantic, dreamy, wistful.

7. Maybe so (Meyer/Bush/Marshall). With Edgar Meyer (bass), Sam Bush (mandolin), and Mike Marshall (guitar). Quietly chugging progressive bluegrass. Bell slides languorously in long lines over the top, then slips into the band itself, sawing as the band choogles--very impressive. The band backs away into its own quiet, but insistent solos. Bell returns in long languorous lines again. The band now seems to approach him. Still, it remains scrappy under his sonically subtle long lines. Interesting contrast.

8. Violin sonata #3, Movement II (Grieg). With Sergei Rachmaninoff (Vorsetzen Klavier, 1928). Rachmaninoff has an unexpectedly light, open touch on the piano. Bell swooshes through and over it.

9. Eleanor Rigby (Lennon/McCartney) (S). With Frankie Moreno (piano, vocals). A quiet, wistful, intimate duo that somehow contains raging passions. The music storms and crashes in an intensely close, small space. They are tightly within each other's lines, Moreno a night-club singer, Bell weaving arabesques through the smoky haze around Moreno.

10. O cease thy singing, maiden fair, Op. 4/4 (Rachmaninoff). With Nathan Gunn (baritone) and piano. Intense feelings, closely held. Spare, clean, simple setting.

11. Il postino (Luis Bacalov). With C. Kraayenhof (bandoneon). Quietly sunny little tune, wistfully content, slowly swells into bigger, broader movements, then returns to its exquisite, quiet roots.

12. Left hand song (Regina Spektor). With R. Spektor (piano, vocals). Duo in which her clean, fine piano playing couldn't contrast more with her pop-punk girlish indie vocal--seemingly deliberately baroque (think Kate Bush or Björk). Bell finds a suitably icy edge to his playing that places him in the same space.

13. Chovendo na rosiera (Jobim). With Dave Grusin (piano) and a small group. Slight, pleasant song in spritely ¾-time offers a suitable setting for some low-key interplay. Almost a back-porch throw-away.

14. Look away (Meyer/Thile). With E. Meyer (bass), Chris Thile (mandolin). Quietly nimble string band music seemingly spun from some thin space between them in the moment. Bell's long lines find affinity with the percussive mandolin and a bass that seemingly falls between. Slight.

15. Variant moods: Duet for sitar and violin (abridged; Ravi Shankar). With Anoushka Shankar (sitar) and percussion. Quiet, dreamy. Violin and sitar slide in and out in tightly choreographed sequences along long, common lines, as though they finish one another's sentences and perhaps grow out of one another. The line that carries this forward feels like it could go on forever.

16. I'll take Manhattan (Rodgers). With Marvin Hamlisch (piano). Basic supper club piano gets kicked up a notch with Bell's swooning curlicues. Feels a bit too cute for comfort, especially as the closer.
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Description of At Home With Friends

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.

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