Beethoven Piano Your resource for the piano music of Ludwig van Beethoven

author: Ludwig van Beethoven asin: B000NCO8N0 binding: Sheet music

FÜR ELISE
Series: Piano Solo Sheets

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

author: Beethoven asin: 0825617332 binding: Paperback list price: $6.95 USD amazon price: $6.95 USD

Book and CD.

asin: B000065V7N binding: Audio CD list price: $6.98 USD amazon price: $6.98 USD

The Baby Beethoven music CD is an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award winner. Featuring 19-tracks, the 35-minute collection designed as a playful introduction to the drama and range of Beethoven's music. All of the pieces featured on the Baby Beethoven music CD were composed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and trace the range of history's most famous musician. Masterfully re-orchestrated by the Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra for little ears, Baby Beethoven music CD is an excellent audio accompaniment to any child's playtime.

asin: B000009OU6 binding: Audio CD list price: $7.98 USD amazon price: $6.99 USD

For the parent looking to ease their child into a familiarity with classical music, this is a very well chosen set of Beethoven works. It begins with a generous selection of airs composed late in the composer's life. The presence of the flute as the lead instrument on these selections has a soothing quality that moves the ear in an ideally subtle way, especially as it gives way to the more excited piano sonata pieces. Zoltán Kocsis's reading of "Pathétique" is followed by Claudio Arrau's take on the 7th, 15th, and 18th sonatas and Sviatoslav Richter's lyrical take on the 20th ("Pastoral").

asin: B00000AE72 binding: Audio CD list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.98 USD

Hundreds of compilation recordings have been thrust on the market in recent years on the theory that classical music makes a nice, non-threatening accompaniment to everything from working out to making love. And here we have one compilation promising to make your baby smarter. It's offensive enough that the music featured on these compilations is spliced up so that the most you hear of any work is a single movement; what's really annoying is the poor quality of so many of the featured performances.

asin: B000LNHJUK binding: Audio CD

Fur Elise (3:01)
Traumerel (2:50)
Mazurka in Bb major op. 7 no. 1 (1:49)
Nocturne in Eb major op. 9 no. 2 (4:00)
Musical Snuffbox, op. 32 (2:12)
Hut on Hen's LegsGreat Gate of Kiev (8:23)
Arabeske (6:25)
Grand valse brillante, op. 18 (4:45)
Nocturne in B major op. 32 no. 1 ((5:04)
Pavane pour une infante defunte (5:59)
Waltz in Bm op. 69 no. 2 (3:40)
Polonaise in Ab major op. 53 (6:16)
Moonlight Sonate (15:16)