CLOSED-Joshua Bell “At Home With Friends” Cd Review & Giveaway

Joshua Bell’s new cd, “At Home With Friends” has just been released on 9/29.

“At Home With Friends” Album Track Listing:

• I Loves You Porgy featuring Chris Botti, trumpet

• Come Again featuring Sting, vocals

• Oblivion featuring Carel Kraayenhof, bandoneon

• Cinema Paradiso featuring Josh Groban, vocals

• Para Tí featuring Tiempo Libre, various

• My Funny Valentine featuring Kristin Chenoweth, vocals

• Maybe So featuring Edgar Meyer Sam Bush and Mike Marshall, strings

• Grieg: Sonata No. 3 featuring Sergei Rachmaninoff (Zenph re-performance)

• Eleanor Rigby featuring Frankie Moreno, piano & vocals

• O, Cease Thy Maiden Fair featuring Nathan Gunn, baritone

• Il Postino featuring Carel Kraayenhof, bandoneon

• Left Hand Song featuring Regina Spektor, piano & vocals

• Chovendo Na Roseira featuring Dave Grusin, piano

• Look Away featuring Edgar Meyer, bass and Chris Thile, mandolin

• Variant Moods: Duet for Sitar & Violin featuring Anoushka Shankar, sitar

• I’ll Take Manhattan featuring Marvin Hamlisch, piano

You can listen to samples of each track and order HERE and you can check out Joshua’s Facebook page HERE.

Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell has been in the spotlight since he was 14 years old. Now, 20 years and 30 original albums later, Joshua has the public’s attention like no other classical violinist of his time, captivating audiences worldwide. He’s a soloist, chamber musician, orchestra leader and he’s earned countless awards and honors for his work as a concert stage performer and recording artist, including “Classical Artist of the Year” and “Classical CD of the Year” by Billboard Magazine. He’s the first musician to have a classical music video played on VH1, and he’s appeared on Sesame Street.

I have to say, this album was a complete delight to listen to from beginning to end. Joshua Bell has some serious talent and he brought serious talent along with him on this cd! In his liner notes on “At Home With Friends”, he notes that home is a very special place where he has a lot of friends over & entertains them all the time and he wanted to recreate that feeling on this album. He sure did accomplish that. The whole album has an intimate feeling to it, like you’re in his home watching & listening to Joshua and his fellow artists creating beautiful music together. I would be hard-pressed to pick a favorite, as all of the songs are just great. I especially liked “Eleanor Rigby” featuring Frankie Moreno and I can’t help but love “My Funny Valentine” with Kristin Chenoweth. That girl just has the voice of an angel, I just love her (and I’m still mad ABC canceled “Pushing Daisies”, but that’s a whole different post). Anyway, this is a great album & I’m so glad I got a chance to listen to it, I’m definitely a Joshua Bell fan now!

And Now for the fun part, the Giveaway! You can win your own copy of “At Home With Friends” , thanks to One2OneNetwork.

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