Beethoven for Babies | 
 enlarge | Creators: Ludwig Van Beethoven, Frans Brueggen, Neville Marriner, Severino Gazzelloni, Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-fields, Orchestra Of The Eighteenth Century, Bella Davidovich, Bruno Canino, Claudio Arrau, Sviatoslav Richter, Zoltan Kocsis
Label: Philips
Category: Music
List Price: $7.98
Buy New: $3.39
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 6515
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 462711
UPC: 028946271124
EAN: 0028946271124
ASIN: B000009OU6
Release Date: August 11, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | The Cottage Maid (Welsh) | | • | The Last Rose of Summer (Irish) | | • | Chiling O'Guirg (Irish) | | • | English Bulls (Irish) | | • | St. Patrick's Day (Irish) | | • | O Mary, at the Window Be (Scottish) | | • | Oh, Thou are the Lad of My Heart (Scottish) | | • | Fuer Elise - Beethoven, Ludwig v | | • | Adagio cantabile | | • | Alla Danza Tedesca. Allegro assai | | • | Menuetto (Allegro) | | • | Finale. Allegretto | | • | Menuetto (Moderato e grazioso) | | • | Tempo di menuetto | | • | Allegro scherzando | | • | Ode to Joy | | • | Rondo (Allegro ma non troppo) | | • | Hymn of Thanksgiving |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
For the parent looking to ease their child into a familiarity with classical music, this is a very well chosen set of Beethoven works. It begins with a generous selection of airs composed late in the composer's life. The presence of the flute as the lead instrument on these selections has a soothing quality that moves the ear in an ideally subtle way, especially as it gives way to the more excited piano sonata pieces. Zoltan Kocsis's reading of "Pathetique" is followed by Claudio Arrau's take on the 7th, 15th, and 18th sonatas and Sviatoslav Richter's lyrical take on the 20th ("Pastoral"). Programmed amidst the piano pieces, which are great studies in dynamics and musical spacing, are some fine orchestral snippets, none longer than five minutes. The collection does a fine balancing act, condensing works that don't inherently lend themselves to shortened renditions and carefully managing moods, entry, and egress to each segment. This is fine anthology work. --Andrew Bartlett
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Great Soothing Music! January 10, 2008
Deelaureen ( Newport News Va
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I Bought this for my 18 year old Autistic son. He loves music. Sometimes he gets wound up so I thought this would be good to help him unwind at night before he goes to bed. He seems to like it a lot. I know I do. It is good to add the classics to our collection.
Beethoven for Babies May 21, 2007
S. L. Kern (San Diego, CA.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My baby and I really enjoy this CD. It is so fun to feel the baby get excited when I play it. I have a pillow speaker and just place it right up against my stomach. It evens helps me to get in a nap or just rest for a while.
Nicest classical CD I have found for my baby (& me) September 1, 2005
William Moor (William Moor)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a very pleasant CD to listen to, and I think the quality of the music is excellent. I enjoy listening to this with my 10 month old son, and we also listen to the radio and lots of modern music. I recently purchased 5 of the classical "Baby Einstein" CDs and I consider them to be inferior to this Beethoven for Babies CD. The Baby Einstein are very synthesized sounding and I think they are annoyingly mellow and kind of dopey. This Beethoven CD is beautiful. In fact I'm going to buy 1 or 2 more from this series.
Ode To Beethoven May 13, 2005
Carltouis Stevenson (Angeles Mesa, Los Angeles)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The actual reason I bought this cd is for "Fur Elise" but it turned out to be much more than I bargained for. Before road rage sets in while sitting in a traffic jam during rush hour, play this. If you need to take it easy and escape from your reality, play this. Need something to play at work that's not explicit or offensive, play this. Of course, it's not Beethoven himself, but if you need some quiet time, play this. Even while you read, you could play this. If you want some authenticity to your collection, get Beethoven for Babies.
 Pseudoscientific crap, but some of the music is good here May 26, 2004
chefdevergue (Spokane, WA United States)
19 out of 45 found this review helpful
The 3 stars is only because the hucksters that put this together at least had the decency to tracks featuring Arrau & Richter on this CD. A lot of these "turn your baby into a genius with classical music" CDs and tapes feature only lousy musical performances from hack musicians you have never heard of.That having been said, if you are stupid enough to believe any of this "Mozart Effect" horse manure --- which continues to have no support in any sort of controlled test environment --- then your babies will probably inherit your limited intellectual capacities & no amount of Beethoven & Mozart will ever be able to help them. If, on the other hand, you are introducing Junior to classical music, you could do worse --- but you could also do better. Go get Arrau's complete Beethoven sonatas & concerti, get the Berg Quartett's complete Beethoven quartet cycle, and get John Eliot Gardiner's complete Beethoven symphonies --- just for a start. Also, don't stop with Beethoven & Mozart. My 9-month old daughter gets a diverse exposure to a thousand years of music, and very little is off limits. She got acquainted with the Bartok Quartets within her first couple of months, and it doesn't look like we have created an axe murderer or anything like that. Anyway, if you want to create a classical music lover, do it right and go the distance, rather than doing it piecemeal with CDs like this. Your baby may still be a moron, but at least will be a moron with exquisite taste.
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