Joshua Bell - Voice of the Violin - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Romance of the Violin, an all new collection featu ring Grammy-winning violinist Joshua Bell. All arr angements for the recording are by Craig Leon, who has produced and arranged albums fora broad spectr um of artits from Luciano Pavarotti to Blondie.

2014 album from the Alt-Country artist. Bobby Bare, Jr. could've phoned in a career. He could've exploited the fact that he was born into Nashville's Music Row elite, but instead he's blazed his own path of unique songwriting craftsmanship with a voice that blows through you like an unyielding wind on the desolate prairie. UNDEFEATED is BBJ's first since 2010 and is what he calls his 'break-up record,' but the whole of it is much more involved this isn't escapism, it's an emotional survival guide. Here are reality checks, clever wordplay and daring arrangements with raw and varied textures, channeling everything from mirror-ball gazing 70s R&B / Soul, to bright ballads from the hills and hollers of Venice Beach, to Bobby's own country music DNA. From anyone else, this refusal to play it on the straight and narrow might sound clutter or disjointed, but Bobby never even breaks a sweat.

The solo piano music of Ives represents an extraordinary achievement. Experimental is a word often associated with it. But experimental in what sense? Certainly he was exploring a wholly unique and personal style. Ives' music is by turns, exploratory, powerful, sensitive and transcendental always wholly consistent within it's own, sometimes highly unusual terms. These qualities are there in abundance in his two crowning achievements the first and second sonatas. The studies and others orbit round these like planets to twin suns. VOTED GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE TOP CHOICE 2012 (for the Concord Sonata)