AllMusic's Jonathan Widran gives the album 4 out of a possible 5 stars and concludes his review with, "Timeless yet contemporary, Two Worlds is beautiful reunion of these musical soul mates."[1]
Hilarie Grey of JazzTimes begins her favorable review with, "perennial jazz all-stars Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin reach new career highs with the classically oriented Two Worlds."[3]
Track listing
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
1.
"Concerto in A Minor for Four Keyboards and Strings, BWV 1065: Movement 1"
Debbi Datz-Pyle and Patti Zimmitti – orchestra contractors
Margaret Batjer and Ralph Morrison – concertmasters
Vince Bartold, Lars Clutterham, Julia Eidsvoog, John Eidsvoog, Ron Gorow, Mark Graham, Jim Hoffman, Joann Kane, Deborah Mitchell, Larry Rench and Steven L. Smith – copyists
Steven Erdody, Paula Hochhalter, Christina Soule and Cecilia Tsan – cello
Edward Meares – double bass
Karen Elaine Bakunin, Carole Castillo, Matt Funes, Keith Greene, Jennie Hansen, Scott Haupert, Carrie Holzman-Little, Roland Kato, Renita Koven, Vicki Miskolczy and Carol Mukogawa – viola
Richard Altenbach, Margaret Batjer, Mario DeLeon, Julie Gigante, Henry Gronnier, Clayton Haslop, Tamara Hatwan, Amy Herschberger, Lily Ho Chen, Karen Jones, Leslie Katz, Michelle Kim, Gary Kuo, Natalie Leggett, Kathleen Lenski, Phillip Levy, Lianne Mautner, Frances Moore, Ralph Morrison, Sara Parkins, Rachel Purkin, Susan Rishik, Marc Sazer, Lisa Sutton, Lesa Terry, Roger Wilkie and Margaret Wooten – violin
Production
Chris Roberts – executive producer, liner notes
Dave Grusin – producer
Lee Ritenour – producer
Don Murray – recording, mixing
Eric Ferguson – additional recording, Pro Tools engineer, assistant engineer