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To be a complete philistine and ask for your help please

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BadBitchNoMuzzle · 24/08/2012 11:39

DS wouldn't sleep and in desperation I put on classic FM. Miracle of miracles, the boy (evidently of more refined tastes than his mama) dropped off in minutes clearly grateful for the Katy Perry reprieve

So look, can you give me some ideas of lovely classical tracks I can start downloading. Soft, airy, twinkly, relaxing rather than anything trumpety! Along the lines of Adagio for Strings (the one classical track I can name, thanks Hollywood)

Thank you

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BartletForTeamGB · 24/08/2012 11:42
HoratiaWinwood · 24/08/2012 11:42

Chopin piano anything.

Or just stick the radio on! Classic FM is fine except on the hour (and half-hour in rush hour I think) when they have lots of talking.

fruitysummer · 24/08/2012 11:44

Chopin

BadBitchNoMuzzle · 24/08/2012 11:46

Bartley that looks fantastic
And Chopin, yes, thank you!

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SecretNutellaMedallist · 24/08/2012 11:47

I love drifting off to Tartini's "Devil's Trill Sonata". It's 16 minutes long, and starts off so peacefully.

My fave performance is

I also love [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWrjS0oSPcs&feature=related Glinka's Variations on a Theme of Mozart".

Paiviaso · 24/08/2012 11:47

Look for compilation albums like this one

SecretNutellaMedallist · 24/08/2012 11:48


Try that second again
InMySpareTime · 24/08/2012 11:49

"dance of the snowflakes"

funchum8am · 24/08/2012 11:49

Pachelbel's Canon is lovely as is Brahms' lullaby

SchrodingersMew · 24/08/2012 11:59

Ohhh. Einaudi is beautiful , , the songs are really soft and lovely.

BadBitchNoMuzzle · 24/08/2012 12:21

Wonderful, love MN!!x

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 24/08/2012 12:25

Vaughan Williams, Fantasy on a theme of Thomas Tallis (played quietly)
Slow movement Mozart's Piano Concerto no 21
Slow movement Mozart's clarinet concerto

HoratiaWinwood · 24/08/2012 13:22

Ballets are quite good too - Coppelia or Swan Lake perhaps.

Pavane (Fauré)
Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens) - for wind-down, not sleep.
Gymnopedie 2 or 3 (Satie)

Limonata · 24/08/2012 13:27

Delibes and Erik Satie are beautiful composers (wafts hand from side to side with eyes closed)

LineRunner · 24/08/2012 13:29

Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev

habbibu · 24/08/2012 13:30

Can't really add much (love Thomas Tallis choral works, but not sure they're always soothing), but wanted to say it's not being a philistine to ask about something you don't know much about. Nobody's an expert on everything!

MrsKwazii · 24/08/2012 13:33

As well as classical, it's also worth looking at the Rockabye Baby albums. We have the Metallica one and it's the loveliest soothing music - they take classic rock tunes and rerecord them in a lullabye style, on mellotron, glockenspiel and so on. They're brilliant.

KenLeeeeeee · 24/08/2012 13:34

DS3 loves Moonlight Sonata

trumpton · 24/08/2012 13:35
AugustMoon · 24/08/2012 13:37

Clair de lune, Debussy - on piano

OlympiaMumsnet · 24/08/2012 13:45

Hi there OP

We have moved this to music
NB yy second clair de lune
Best of luck with getting DS to sleep, been there, done that, got the under eye bags (!)

somebloke123 · 24/08/2012 13:48

Various piano music:

Schubert: Impromptus, Moments Musicaux, last 3 piano sonatas.

Schumann: Kinderszenen, Album for the Young

Mozart piano sonatas.

I think someone already mentioned Satie: Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes.

I wonder if some Bach might go down well e.g. Goldberg which was supposedly (probably apocryphally ) composed for the keyboard playing servant Goldberg to play for his insomniac master.

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 24/08/2012 14:24

Have been thinking about the Vaughan Williams Fantasy suggestion and I retract it utterly. It's far too emotional!

Second Clair de Lune though.

Air on a G String by JS Bach

Carnival des Animaux - Aquarius. I love that.

ChaosTrulyReigns · 24/08/2012 14:27

Ludovico Eiunadi (sp) is brilliant for relaxing.

chocoluvva · 14/09/2012 15:45

The Berceuse from Faure's 'Dolly Suite'
There's a lovely CD by Philips called 'Cradle Song' which is entirely filled with Julian Lloyd Webber playing lullabies on cello, beaurtifully accompanied by a pianist.
Brahms wrote a very famous lullaby.

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