Beethoven for Babies: Brain Training for Little Ones

Beethoven for Babies: Brain Training for Little Ones
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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. ZoltÃ¡n Kocsis's reading of "PathÃ©tique" 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

Country	USA
Brand	Import
Manufacturer	Philips
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	beethoven-for-babies-brain-training
Model	beethoven-for-babies-brain-training
ReleaseDate	1998-08-11
UnitCount	1
Format	CD
UPCs	734342292327
EANs	0028946271124