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. 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
Beethoven for Babies: Brain Training for Little Ones, Music, Ludwig van Beethoven, Neville Marriner, Severino Gazzelloni, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Bella Davidovich, Bruno Canino, Claudio Arrau, Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter, Zoltán Kocsis, Bagatelle for Keyboard, Ballet, Chamber, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Flute Solo/Sonata, Keyboard, Orchestral & Symphonic, Quartet for Four String Instruments, Romantic Ballet, Romantic Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard, Romantic Symphony, Symphonic
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