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I am looking for some soothing classical music to play for my children during the evening for an hour or two before bedtime.  Any suggestions? Thanks!

I am looking for some soothing classical music to play for my children during the evening for an hour or two before bedtime.  Any suggestions? Almost anything by Satie (consider the ballet Parades as well as piano music), and lots of music by Ravel and Debussy is soothing (one very beautiful movement which could be used as a bedtime piece is Clair de Lune from the Suite Bergamasque ). If you want something long, get the opera L'enfant et les Sortileges by Ravel. I'm sorry that, since I've only heard it live, I have no recommendations of recordings, but it's a lovely opera and really its plot is such that it's a children's opera. Get a video if one's available. Other composers with soothing compositions would include Mozart (e.g. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik), Johann Christian Bach, and Johann Sebastian Bach in many instances. Just a few thoughts. Michael

: I am looking for some soothing classical music to play for my children : during the evening for an hour or two before bedtime.  Any suggestions? A few off-the-top-of-head-suggestions: Dvorak, Serenade for Strings, Op. 44 (especially the first movement). Mozart, Clarinet Quintet. Beethoven, Violin sonatas #5 in F, Op. 24 ( Spring ) and #10 in G, Op. 96. Faure, Pavane, Op. 50.

Thanks! Even the most low-key, laid-back, classical music is never soothing when it is performed well.

In <01be436d$be39ae20$1aa79bcf@default Eric M. Butterworth < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it writes: I am looking for some soothing classical music to play for my children during the evening for an hour or two before bedtime.  Any suggestions? Thanks! Even the most low-key, laid-back, classical music is never soothing when it is performed well. What about the Chopin sent as midi by Takeshi, though!

Almost anything by Frederico Mompou.