Listen & tracks

19 works · 25:58

1 Sonata in A major, K331 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Andante 1:41
2 Neapolitan Christmas carol Anonymous 1:25
3 French lullaby Anonymous 1:25
4 German lullaby Anonymous 2:16
5 American lullaby Anonymous 1:28
6 English lullaby Anonymous 1:30
7 Neapolitan Christmas carol Anonymous 1:26
8 Sonata in A major, K331 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Andante 1:54
9 L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2 Georges Bizet Allegro vivo 1:06
10 German folk tune Anonymous :54
11 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Più mosso 1:03
12 Russian folk tune Anonymous :56
13 Quartet No. 58 in F major, Op. 74 No. 2 Franz Joseph Haydn Presto 1:19
14 Danish folk tune Anonymous 1:08
15 Sonata in A major, K331 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondo alla Turca 1:57
16 Czech folk tune Anonymous :32
17 Pillow dance Johann Strauss I 1:28
18 Polish folk tune Anonymous 1:24
19 L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2 Georges Bizet Allegro vivo 1:06

The booklet includes suggestions for activities suitable for home and kindergarten.

Arranged for kindergarten and home use, the programme pairs slow pieces for rocking and gentle stepping with faster music for free running and formation dances. John Seal leads on assorted percussion, with Jean Penny on flute, Jack Stringer on guitar, and Michelle Picker and Lachlan Easton on double bass.

Artists

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He wrote over 600 works, many of them pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic and choral music, and remains among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

John Seal

assorted percussion

John Seal makes music children can move to and grow with: colourful percussion, flute, guitar and bass behind songs that stretch young imaginations, from dawn-to-bedtime kindergarten classics to active listening that teaches the bones of music.

Franz Joseph Haydn

composer

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, central to the making of the symphony, the string quartet and the piano trio. A vast body of chamber, orchestral and sacred music from his long career shaped the language of his age.

Giuseppe Verdi

composer

Giuseppe Verdi wrote the operas that still define the Italian stage: Rigoletto, La traviata, Aida, Otello. His music turns private passion and public fate into melody audiences know by heart and never tire of hearing.

Georges Bizet

composer

Georges Bizet wrote French Romantic opera that still lives through melody and theatrical colour. Carmen’s street energy and fatal passion, and the lyric duets of Les pêcheurs de perles, are the scores most often heard today.