Beautiful

Hey this is not supposed to be high classical art, it's supposed to be stuff you would like heard in your living room with a group of people who don't all know the Beethoven string quartets and Schubert's piano trios. In that sense it succeeds magnificently. Just plain old enjoyable and unassuming, it gets its intended job done. If you want to hear classical chamber music, Don't buy this album. If you want to imagine your living room filled with people just wanting to have a good fun evening, you can't do better than this. Sorry Yo-Yo, but for enjoyable schmaltz this is the winner. PS: I think Sting singing Dowland is very cool

Oh it's so perfect I might die.

Sting sounds terrible. Sorry.

Mr Bell has done well for himself, as was proof while he crossed campus in his Porsche letting his fellow IU musical colleagues know who was the king. Congrats Josh from the girls at the Tri-Delt house. We miss your long evenings at the house whispering your thoughts through your music. If only you preferred us over your self-proclaimed innocence. I think if you read this you will know just who I am and the joy we brought to each other. I picked this album to speak out finally as I believe I heard some of your words to me through the magical pluck you said was for me to know where your head was at. It brought me back to the time you first laid the rose over my lap plucking the petals with such skilled hand you posses...... Live on Josh and give thoughts to our starlit strolls that will last forever in your music - I can hear our secrets to this day!

Out of the park! Bell is terrific, but so are his friends, all outstanding musicians. Every note is nailed. Every nuance performed, dynamics superb, great job of engineering, great arrangements. Get it and play the entire thing at one sitting, but listen to it as if it were classical music, i.e. concentrate and let it envelop you. I hope for more.

Jbell sounds like a little girl. Menuhin's Shankar album "West meets East" is sooo much better.

Imagine being invited to a dinner party with Joshua Bell and all of his friends, and after the meal they just start jamming. That's the feel I got from this cd. I loved the diverse range of styles and the talented friends who accompanied Bell. There are some real gems here. I loved "Come Again" with Sting, "Cinema Paradiso" with Josh Groban and many others. I highly recomend it as I feel that Bell's friends complement his amazing violin.

Typically, I have a 4 song rule before I purchase a CD....except with artist who have proven to produce exceptional work. Joshua Bell is one of those. I purchased At Home With Friends without listening to anything. A lot of the songs I recognized and believed he would be awesome. The CD is so disappointing. No cohesiveness at all. I just don't get it. Two songs are great...the rest are surprisingly disappointing. Maybe next time Joshua! :-(

josh bell is very talented and i enjoy it very much when he ventures to raelsm such as major motion pictures and things like that, but i renewal of the general old classics gets old. I always thought of him as modern for an instrumentalist. . . perhaps not so much