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Lullabies: A Songbook Companion | 
 enlarge | Creators: Anonymous, Yiddish Anonymous, Davine Baring-gould, Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Benjamin Godard, Engelbert Humperdinck, Paul Kapp, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach, Research Composer, Robert Schumann, James Royce Shannon, Jane Taylor, Traditional, African Traditional, American Traditional, French Traditional, Spiritual Traditional, Welsh Traditional
Label: Essay
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 127806
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1054
UPC: 090998105429
EAN: 0090998105429
ASIN: B00000083Z
Release Date: November 18, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | All Through the Night - Boulton, Sir Harold | | • | All the Pretty Little Horses | | • | All Night, All Day | | • | Armenian Lullaby | | • | Baby's Bed's a Silver Moon | | • | Baloo Baleerie | | • | Lullaby | | • | Brezairola | | • | Traeumerei | | • | Can Ye Sew Cushions | | • | By'm Bye | | • | Bye, Baby Bunting-Golden Slumbers - Dekker, Thomas | | • | Dance to Your Daddy / Dance, Little Baby | | • | Fais Do Do | | • | Good Night to You All | | • | Berceuse | | • | Hush, Little Baby | | • | Kumbayah | | • | Little Boy Blue | | • | Suo Gan | | • | Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John - Kapp, Paul | | • | Mozart's Lullaby | | • | Chanson de Nuit | | • | Now the Day Is Over/Raindrops - Baring-Gould, Sabin | | • | Raisins and Almonds - Tenenbaum, Mela | | • | Rock-A-Bye, Baby | | • | Rocking-The Sandman | | • | Barcarolle: O Belle Nuit | | • | Skidamarink | | • | Sleep, Baby, Sleep | | • | Sweet and Low - Barnby, Joseph | | • | Swing Low, Sweet Chariot | | • | Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby) - Shannon, James R. | | • | Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - Taylor, Jane | | • | When At Night I Go To Sleep |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
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 selections range from "All the Pretty Little Horses" to a global spread of lullabies drawn from classical and folk traditions. 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
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| Customer Reviews:
 The book is great, but what's up with her voice? April 4, 2008
S. E. Bradford
This could serve a purpose for those who don't read music to learn the tunes. The singer sounds OK on some songs, but her renditions of "All the Pretty Little Horses" and "Rock-a-bye Baby" were horribly sung. The book has beautiful images and is a real keepsake. If you are looking for a fabulous voice with great emotional feeling in it, get someone's grandma to sing from the book.
 Wonderful! February 14, 2007
Tiffanie (San Antonio, TX United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this CD. It's very well-done, and the approach is different than most children's CDs - very refined, yet soothing. I don't get tired of listening to it the way I do others -- which is important when trying to get a little one to sleep! I highly recommend it and the companion book.
Simple and sweet songs April 2, 2006
New Mom (Chicago, IL)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
With just piano, violin and vocals, this is a simple and heartfelt album. Ms. Baird's voice conveys the full emotions that a mother feels for her new baby with clean and open singing. The first track in particular, "All Through The Night," still makes me teary. I played this in the hospital when my son was born, and we use it as part of our wind-down ritual. I do agree that some of the songs are a little upbeat for bedtime. We just skip those in the evening (using iTunes).
Marvellous cd, enchanting music October 18, 2005
Adam Blackburn
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Our whole family loves this cd. I am continually charmed and refreshed by the subtlety, taste and musicianship that has gone into these arrangements of well- and lesser-known gems. Apart from the joy of the simple yet perfect chordal progressions, listen to the warm, caressing tone imparted by the low bass notes in the piano in many of the tracks. The pace is so wonderfully leisurely, there is time to savour each song or piece, and yet each lasts only two or three minutes. The three diverse yet complementary singers, each with a tender and gentle presence suiting the subject matter, give a sense of a 19th century family musical evening. Magical.
 Good if you want to sing from the book but can't read music February 9, 2004
S. Bookworm
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this solely because I have the book and wanted to sing the lullabies to my kids, but I can't read music. For this purpose it is fine. The songs are not in the same order as in the book but I can deal. As a stand-alone lullaby CD I wouldn't really recommend it--the songs are not sung in a soothing manner, there's lots of variety in tempo and volume, some are even sung up-beat. The voices are not pitched high enough for babies either. That being said, I am back on Amazon today to buy it for my sister who is due any day now with her 3rd kid--we both like to sing and have the book, and songs (in book or music form) are a great present that the baby won't grow out of for a long time, and helps you bond with your little one too.
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