Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Brahms: Lullaby/Weigenlied op.40 No.4
2. Bach: Cantata No.156 - Sinfonia
3. Satie: Gymnopedie No.1
4. Mascagni: Intermezzo removed (from Cavalleria Rusticana)
5. Saint-Saens: The Swan (from the Carnival of the Animals)
6. Mozart: Piano Conceerto No.20 in D Minor - 2nd Movement
7. Traditional: Lisa Lan
8. Walton: Touch her soft lips and part (Henry V Suite)
9. Handel: Lascia Ch'io Pianga (from Rinaldo)
10. Beethoven: Romance No.12 in F major
11. Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine Opus 11
12. Chopin: Nocturne in Eb major op.9 No.2
13. Brahms: Variations on the St Anthony Chorale - Theme
14. Brunning: Pie Jesu
15. Bach: Concerto in D minor for 2 violins - 2nd mvt
16. Hawes: Stargazer

Disc 2:

1. Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals - Finale
2. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro - Overture
3. Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Swans (from Swan Lake)
4. Mozart: Piano Sonata No.11 in A major - 3rd movt
5. Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Scherzo
6. Meyerbeer: Coronation March
7. Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours (from La Giaconda)
8. Rimsky Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
9. Debussy: Petite Suite - Ballet
10. Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major "Trout" - 4th movt
11. Vaughan Williams: English Folksongs Suite - 3rd movt
12. Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 Violins in A major - 3rd movt
13. Bach: Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor - Badinerie
14. Chopin: Waltz in Eb major op.18 "Grand Valse Brillante"
15. Copland: Hoedown (from Rodeo)
16. Lehar: Gold & Silver Waltz

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2121 in Music
• Released on: 2007-07-23
• Number of discs: 2

Album Description
Featuring more than an hour of the world's greatest classical
music, Classic FM For Babies has been especially chosen to provide the
perfect calming soundtrack for you and Baby. Mothers have always sung
lullabies to their children to sooth them and this album collects together
the most famous and memorable classical lullabies to calm, relax and help
your baby, and you, get a peaceful night's sleep. What's more, it's claimed
that parents can increase their children's brain functioning, and enlarge
their capacity for learning through classical music.

Customer Reviews

Time to relax

A lovely 2CD Classic FM compilation of relaxing music - for mothers as much as their babies - consisting of an interesting assortment of baroque, classical, romantic and modern music with the underlying theme of aiming to relax the listener.

Some pieces are chosen partly for their title as well as the soothing effect they have, these include the 'Lullaby' by Brahms and 'The Swan' from 'Carnival of the Animals' by Saint-Saens. The more contemporary offerings are by popular composers such as Patrick Hawes. These are good recordings, as expected by Classic FM, many of which will be comfortably familiar to most of the radio shows listeners.

Comfortably safe by Classic FM maybe, but comfortably relaxing too.

not the best
Bought this to help my boy snooze as he likes the classics. There are a couple of poor choices on the CDs, and crashing of cymbals isn't really what I was looking for. OK but wish I hadn't spent the cash.

Second time lucky?
This is the second version of this CD that I have bought. It worked for my daughter's children and lets hope it will work for my son's new daughter. It certainly works for me when I have to put them to bed.