Customer Reviews

Bach for Babies: Fun and Games for Budding Brains

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This is a versatile collection in terms of composition, performance and layout. Comparing to most of CD with classical selections for baby, this edition is more nutritious and rich on musical experience. Genre wise, the piano solo, concerti, chamber and opera are all included. Performance wise, it is absolute a feast -- Sir Neville Marrier conducting Academy of St. Martin-in-the fields, Jazz Pianist John Lewis delivering the charming and uplifting variation, and Kiri Te Kanawa's heavenly creamy voice. The combination of these musicians and recordings is a decision with great artistic sensibility. The layout is perfectly arranged -- from the waking up, playtime and to the bed. This is not just another CD juggles some pieces together from a brandy composer. For a more serious editing of baby music, this shall be something as a guideline.

This cd is great! It starts your child's day calmly, gets progressively more active to suit baby's playtime, then winds back down again for naps and bedtime. It's my favorite lullaby - goodnight cd and a great baby shower and newborn gift. Try it - you won't be sorry!

I'm a student and I like to listen to classical music while I'm studying and this is great for that. It's lively enough not to put you asleep, but soft enough that it doens't distract from what you're studying. Plus, it's long enough that you don't have to get up to change the CD every 5 minutes.

You can't beat Bach. If classical music is the thing you want for your baby, get this CD. If you are single and have no kids, but classical music is your thing, get this CD. This is fantastic reading music, study music (regardless of what you're studying), and just plain relaxing music. I also highly recommend the CD, BUILD YOUR BABY'S BRAIN 1.

Very soothing. Calms my baby everytime I play it! And yes, they actually do listen to music and enjoy it! I recommend this as an essential item for any new baby!

This is absolutely my favorite CD that we bought for our baby! We've bought quite a few classical-music-for-baby compilations, and this is far and away the best. The music is fun, flirty, stimulating, sweet, and beautifully performed. It's not syrupy, dumbed-down, or played on electronic instruments like some of those other compilations. We listen to it all the time. I now buy this as a baby shower gift for everyone I know!

This is a wonderful introduction for babies and toddlers to classical music. This is my standard baby gift to all new mothers.

We've gotten various other baby music compilations that are full of "chimy" sounds or very poor instrumentation that we eventually can't stand listening to, but this CD is just perfect. It starts off with very simple, charming and soothing pieces (piano only), and moves on to all sorts of cheerful tracks/fun jazzy stuff with a wider variety of instruments (though the CD does focus heavily on piano/guitar). The music is well-played by top notch musicians (like the Canadian brass - yay) and we never get sick of it! Our little guy is still pretty young but seems to be calmed by it (we started playing it for him while he was still in utero). And we actually chose to play this CD in the delivery room for our C-section - it really helped bring down the stress of having to have a surgical delivery; we couldn't have picked better music for our d-day.

There were a few music we thought were not appropriate for babies. One was a bit jazzy...definitely not classical. Otherwise it was good

As I am sitting here listening to the song samples, the baby in my tummy is going CRAZY! Can't wait for the CD to arrive, I know we'll both love it...