Beethoven for Babies: Brain Training for Little Ones
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Brand: UnknownComposer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Conductor: Neville Marriner
Conductor: Frans Brüggen
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Orchestra: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Performer: Bruno Canino
Performer: Bella Davidovich
Performer: Zoltán Kocsis
Performer: Claudio Arrau
Performer: Sviatoslav Richter
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-08-11
Music Label: Philips
Soundtracks:
- Six National Airs With Variations, Op. 105: The Cottage Maid (Welsh)
- Six National Airs With Variations, Op. 105: The Last Rose Of Summer (Irish)
- Six National Airs With Variations, Op. 105: Chiling O'Guirg (Irish)
- Six National Airs With Variations, Op. 105: English Bulls (Irish)
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: St. Patrick's Day (Irish)
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: O Mary, At The Window Be (Scottish)
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: Oh, Thou Are The Lad Of My Heart (Scottish)
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: Fur Elise
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: Piano Sonata No. 8 In C Minor ('Pathetique') - Adagio cantabile
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: String Quartet No. 13 In B-Flat - Alla Danza Tedesca. Allegro assai
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: Piano Sonata No. 7 In D - Menuetto (Allegro)
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: The Creatures Of Prometheus - Finale. Allegretto
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: Piano Sonata No. 18 In E-Flat - Menuetto (Moderato e grazioso)
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: Piano Sonata No. 20 In G - Tempo di menuetto
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: Symphony No. 8 In F - Allegro scherzando
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: Symphony No. 9 In D Minor ('Choral') - Ode To Joy
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: Piano Sonata No. 15 In D ('Pastoral') - Rondo (Allegro ma non troppo)
- Ten National Airs With Variations, Op. 107: Symphony No. 6 In F ('Pastoral') - Hymn Of Thanksgiving
Music reviews of Beethoven for Babies: Brain Training for Little Ones
Music Review: Pseudoscientific crap, but some of the music is good here
Rating: 3 Stars
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.
Description of Beethoven for Babies: Brain Training for Little Ones
No Description Available.Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 11-AUG-1998
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. Zoltán Kocsis's reading of "Pathétique" 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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