Editorial Reviews Baby Sleep, Music, Thomas Hampson, Eric Leviennois, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Gabriel Faure, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach, Henry Purcell, Camille Saint-Saens, Erik Satie, Robert Schumann, Fernando Sor, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Alexander Lazarev, Armin Jordan, John Eliot Gardiner, Lawrence Foster, Marek Janowski, Sir Andrew Davis, Theodor Guschlbauer, English Baroque Soloists, Alexandre Lagoya, Turibio Santos, Marielle Nordmann, Tim Hobrouch, Stephen Barber, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Bruno Faontaine, Cyprien Katsaris, Dmitri Cogan, Geoffrey Parsons, Guher Pekinel, Maria-Joćo Pires, Suher Pekinel, Viktoria Postnikova, Alexander Markov, Albumblatt for Keyboard, Baroque Incidental Music for Orchestra and Voices (or Sem, Chamber
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I think this music is intended for adults, though the photo on the cover is of a sleeping baby. In any event, Schumann's work, Scenes From Childhood, Op. 15, featured here is more likely to bolt you out of bed than put you to sleep, as the mike is far too close to the piano being played by Cyprien Katsaris. Purcell's Adagio from The Indian Queen is magnificent, performed by John Elliott Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists. The Weird Award goes to triple harpist Tim Hobrough and lutenist Stephen Barber for their bizarre, spiky rendition of Minuets Nos. 4 and 5 from the Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach. I would like to meet Bill Holland, producer of all these Atlantic Records classical compilations. He's programmed Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 on three different CDs, billed alternately as sensuous, romantic, and now here: good for a long snooze. --Gwendolyn Freed