Recorded on September 11 this year, this greatest hits live set is respectfully dedicated to all those who lost their lives at the World Trade Center that day - among them a good friend of Sting's.
For, while the rest of the world watched the horrors unfold on CNN, a 200 strong audience of competition winners and record company executives saw Sting perform in the garden of his Tuscan villa, accompanied by an impressive band - featuring pianist Jason Rebello, guitarist Dominic Miller, drummer Manu Katche and pedal steel man BJ Cole.
A poignant, tear-inducing rendition of the brilliant 'Fragile' kicks off this balmy evening among the olive trees and bougainvillea, the opener of a set which offers calm, considered, elegant, jazz-pop reworkings of some of the 50-year-old ex-Police man's finest moments.
For where Sting's previous live outing (1986's 'Bring On The Night') was an exciting, electrifying exhibition of jazz-rock energy and muscular musical prowess, '...All This Time' takes the mellow, intimate, unhurried, slick and polished option.
Best of the largely impressive seventeen tracks here are the gentle love songs 'Mad About You', 'Fields Of Gold' and 'Shape Of My Heart', the sparse, cello-tinged Police tune 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' and the jazz piano crooning of the album's only new song 'Dienda'.
There are however, moments when the pudding is well and truly over egged - 'Roxanne' starts stunningly before losing it in a classical cello interlude and sleazy jazz club lope, while the otherwise perfect '(If You Love Someone) Set Them Free' disintegrates into a brassy, Blues Brothers style knees-up.
Even set closer 'Every Breath You Take' is ruined by a smaltzy 'let me introduce you to the band' routine. But that's probably being a bit picky over what is largely an accomplished, enjoyable, in-the-flesh reminder of Sting's not inconsiderable talent.
