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Anonymous, Yiddish Anonymous, Davine Baring-Gould, Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Benjamin Godard, Engelbert Humperdinck, Paul Kapp, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach - Lullabies: A Songbook Companion

Anonymous, Yiddish Anonymous, Davine Baring-Gould, Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Benjamin Godard, Engelbert Humperdinck, Paul Kapp, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach - Lullabies: A Songbook Companion

Band: Anonymous, Yiddish Anonymous, Davine Baring-Gould, Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Benjamin Godard, Engelbert Humperdinck, Paul Kapp, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach Title: Lullabies: A Songbook Companion Rating: Release Date: 18 November, 1997 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: All Through The Night 2: All The Pretty Little Horses 3: All Night, All Day 4: Armenian Lullaby 5: Baby's Bed's A Silver Moon 6: Baloo, Baleerie 7: Brahms' Lullaby 8: Brezairola 9: Traumerei, Op. 15, No. 1 10: Can Ye Sew Cushions 11: By'm Bye 12: Bye, Baby Bunting - Golden Slumbers 13: Dance To Your Daddy - Dance, Little Baby 14: Fais Dodo 15: Good Night To You All 16: Jocelyn: Berceuse 17: Hush, Little Baby 18: Kumbayah 19: Little Boy Blue 20: Suo Gan 21: Matthew, Mark, Luke, And John 22: Mozart's Lullaby 23: Chanson de Nuit, Op. 15, No. 1 24: Now The Day Is Over - Raindrops 25: Raisins And Almonds 26: Rock-A-Bye, Baby 27: Rocking - The Sandman 28: Tales Of Hoffman: O Bell Nuit - Bacarolle 29: Skidamarink 30: Sleep, Baby, Sleep 31: Sweet And Low 32: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 33: Toora, Loora, Loora 34: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Twinkel, Twinkel, Little Star 35: When At Night I Go To Sleep

Editoral Review The selections range from "All the Pretty Little Horses" to a global spread of lullabies drawn from classical and folk traditions. Released as a companion piece to the award-winning book Lullabies: An Illustrated Songbook, this hour-plus of music is a wonderful mix of stately classical themes and child-friendly vocals. The music is spare, with Kapp on piano, Julianne Baird and Kapp's daughter Madeline on vocals, and Mela Tenenbaum on violin, viola, and occasional vocals. Most of the classical selections (from Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Edmund Elgar, W. A. Mozart, et al. ) get a straight-ahead, accomplished treatment. Lest you think the project stuffy, each of the melodies is in the one- to two-minute range, which effectively mandates a stronger sense of flow than most children's collections. Kapp, who managed to create a visual and poetic flow in the Lullabies book, keeps things nicely in a groove here, knowing enough to segue into silly tracks about halfway through the CD to provide a wider emotional range. This album every bit as accomplished as the book. --Andrew Bartlett .. You can see a complete list of all Anonymous, Yiddish Anonymous, Davine Baring-Gould, Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Benjamin Godard, Engelbert Humperdinck, Paul Kapp, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach discography, or go back to the Anonymous, Yiddish Anonymous, Davine Baring-Gould, Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Benjamin Godard, Engelbert Humperdinck, Paul Kapp, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach tabs