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Album Summary
Joshua Bell (Violin)- Frederic Chiu (Piano)
- Scott Kuney (Guitar)
- Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
- Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
- Carl Orff (1895 - 1982)
- Manuel Ponce (Composer) (1882 - 1948)
- Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
- Sergey Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
- Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
- Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
- Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962)
- Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946)
- Franz Schubert (Vienna) (1797 - 1828)
- Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904)
- Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)
- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
- Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
Notes & Reviews:
Follow-up to the best-selling Romance of the Violin, this album features sensuous, unforgettable melodies from opera and song with soprano Anna Netrebko as Bell's special guest. Selections include such favorites as Schubert's "Ave Maria", Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise", and Tchaikovsky's "None But the Lonely Heart", as well as beloved arias by Mozart, Bizet, Donizetti, Dvorak, and Orff. From the song literature come favorites by Faure, Debussy, Falla, Mendelssohn and Ponce.
I'm afraid that understates the ethereal quality of Bell's extraction of living musical notes from his Stradivarius. The spiritual oneness that happens with a virtuoso and his/her instrument is what makes the connection between the listener and the player. The instrument becomes a unique voice that communicates the essence of music, which itself, is an extension of the writer. If pure, then the quality is immeasurable and unspeakable, transferring only between spirits, and made all the more pure in the hands of a kindred soul. Joshua Bell possesses that kind of relationship, not only between the author of the music and the quality of the instrument, but also between the author and the listener. Bell excels as the bridge between them all.
Notes & Reviews:Personnel: Joshua Bell (violin).
Recording information: Right Track Studios.
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Works Details
Rachmaninov, Sergei : Songs (14), Op. 34 - Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 5 min. 51 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Studio/Live: Studio
Schubert, Franz : Ave Maria - Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 4 min. 43 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Written: 1825
- Language: Latin
- Studio/Live: Studio
Massenet, Jules : Werther :: Pourquoi me réveiller? (Why do you wake me?) - Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 2 min. 37 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Opera/Operetta
- Studio/Live: Studio
Fauré, Gabriel : Après un rêve ("Dans un sommeil"), song for voice & piano, Op. 7/1 - Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 2 min. 50 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1877
- Studio/Live: Studio
Dvorak, Antonin : Rusalka :: Song to the Moon - Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 5 min. 28 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Form: Opera/Operetta
- Studio/Live: Studio
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Laudate Dominum :: Laudate Dominum (Praise th - Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 4 min. 44 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
- Written: 1780
- Studio/Live: Studio
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : None but the Lonely Heart, Op. 6, no 6 - Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 2 min. 51 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Written: 1869
- Studio/Live: Studio
Donizetti, Gaetano : L' elisir d'amore, opera :: Una furtiva lagrima (A furtive tear) - Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 4 min. 17 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Written: 1832
- Studio/Live: Studio
Orff, Carl : Carmina burana :: In trutina (in the balance) - Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 2 min. 35 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Cantata/Oratorio
- Written: 1935-1936
- Studio/Live: Studio
Kreisler, Fritz : May Breezes, song without words for violin & piano, (transcription of Mendelssohn's Song without Wor - Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 2 min. 18 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Studio/Live: Studio
Debussy, Claude : Beau soir ("Lorsque au soleil couchant les rivières sont roses"), song for voice & piano, L. 6 - Performers: Joshua Bell (Violin); Frederic Chiu (Piano)
- Running Time: 2 min. 32 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1880
- Studio/Live: Studio
Ponce, Manuel [Composer] : Estrellita for voice & piano (or orchestra) - Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 3 min. 16 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 1913
- Studio/Live: Studio
Falla, Manuel de : Canciones populares españolas (7) :: Nana - Performers: Scott Kuney (Guitar); Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 2 min. 12 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 1914
- Studio/Live: Studio
Bizet, Georges : The Pearl Fishers, opera :: Je crois entendre encore (I still can hear) - Performer: Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 3 min. 32 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Form: Opera/Operetta
- Written: 1863
- Studio/Live: Studio
Strauss, Richard : Lieder (4), Op. 27 - Performers: Anna Netrebko (Soprano); Joshua Bell (Violin)
- Conductor: Michael Stern
- Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
- Running Time: 3 min. 41 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1894
- Language: German
- Studio/Live: Studio
