Romance of the Violin - Michael Stern
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Product Description
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. Every track on this CD contains a beautiful melody, many of them easily recognizable, all of them exuding tranquility. 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. Bellini's "Casta diva" from Norma lives up to its reputation as the epitome of bel canto in Bell's hands; his violin sings. "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. 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. --Robert Levine
Product Info
- Artist
- John Constable, Jacob Heringman, Stephen Orton
- Binding
- Audio CD
- Creator
- Joshua Bell, Giacomo Puccini, 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
- EAN
- 0827968789422
- EAN List
- Feature
- Condition: Used - Very Good
- Label
- Sony
- Manufacturer
- Sony
- Number Of Discs
- 1
- Package Quantity
- 1
- Product Group
- Music
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_MUSIC
- Publisher
- Sony
- Release Date
- 2003-10-28
- SKU
- MER696998789425
- Studio
- Sony
- Title
- Romance of the Violin
- UPC
- 827968789422
- UPC List
- ASIN
- B0000DG06L
- Sales Rank
- 1048
