Perchance to Dream: A Lullaby Album for Children and Adults - 6885

Amazon.com This is a lovingly-presented and very touching recording. Solo piano works by such composers as Kabalevsky, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Schumann, and Ravel come together in this collection intended to promote restfulness and calm in both children and adult listeners. With Carol Rosenberger's gentle playing, it succeeds marvellously. This disc is absolutely ideal for bedtime or times of quiet reflection. It might serve well in the car during traffic jams, too. Rather than just throwing together performances packaged on a theme (as a number of record companies are doing), Delos and Rosenberger seem to have tailored the interpretations to achieve the desired musical goal here. The liner notes have a lively section just for young readers. --Gwendolyn Freed Product Description Music for Babies/Childrem Review ...a splendid disc to be treasured by young and old. -- American Record Guide The world's loveliest piano music, beautifully programmed to help people of all ages find an inner core of tranquility. -- Keynote the perfect gift among recordings for introducing a child to the intimacies and universality of music... -- Fanfare Magazine From the Artist Developmental enrichment programs for the very young are important not only to parents but to all who care about our collective future. The healing and developmental properties of music have long been recognized. The ancient Greeks believed that music, healing and enlightenment all come from the same source. One of music's properties, rhythm, is as elemental as the mother's heartbeat. Another of its properties, melody, is first experienced in the loving sounds the infant first hears from its mother. Great music is the form of beauty and symmetry that can be experienced before the eyes can focus. Great music is the form of logic and order that can be experienced before the brain can differentiate words, designs or numbers. Music is often called the "universal language," because its truths precede words and transcend words. Music speaks to the entire being, and as such engages the senses, the emotions and the spirit. If there is such a thing as enrichment of early brain development, why wouldn't it be at its highest form when engaging the entire being? -- Amelia S. Haygood
ASIN: B0000006X2
VSKU: DBV.B0000006X2.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Carol Rosenberger
Binding: Audio cd