Welcome to West Side Story Suite.
An exciting NEW arrangement of an All-Time Great!

Grammy Award-winning virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell is poised for superstardom with the release of this new collection of famous tunes by America's greatest 20th century composer Leonard Bernstein, heard for the first time in the uniquely lyrical voice of Bell's artistry.

The musical West Side Story -- considered by many to be the pinnacle of musical theater -- is beloved by the entire world, some four decades after Bernstein completed its composition. The great melodies from this score have been arranged in this new West Side Story Suite by Tony Award-winning orchestrator William David Brohn that displays to perfection the passionate virtuosity of Joshua Bell.

The album also features Brohn arrangements of two Bernstein songs from the musical On The Town -- "Lonely Town" and "New York, New York" -- as well as an arrangement of the finale to Bernstein's Candide by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Corigliano, who penned the Oscar®-winning soundtrack The Red Violin for Josh; plus Bernstein's only piece for violin and orchestra, the "Serenade".

Josh was Brohn's collaborator for the new arrangements, and he starred this past August in the PBS broadcast of a concert film of his performance of West Side Story Suite with the New York Philharmonic from Central Park, taped in June.