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Apr 30, 2020 · Keep your little ones calm with the soothing sounds of classical music… For those moments when their head isn’t easily hitting the pillow, here are the perfect pieces of relaxing classical music for kids – from Bach to Einaudi.
We help you choose the best classical pieces to play for your child at bedtime, as well as offer advice on how to put together your own bedtime playlist. The full article is available to read for free on any PDF reader.
- Camille Saint-Saëns – Carnival of the Animals. Camille Saint-Saëns’ ‘grand zoological fantasy’ is beautiful, funny, and clever all at once. ‘The Swan’, perhaps the best known movement, is scored for two pianos and a cello solo.
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker. From the elegant ‘Waltz of the Flowers’ to the magical ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’, the score of Tchaikovsky’s enchanting ballet is a feast of wonderful melodies.
- Sergei Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf. If it’s famous names you’re after, Prokofiev’s symphonic fairytale for children has been narrated by some of the best in the business.
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Für Elise. Beethoven’s Bagatelle No.25 in A minor is rarely referred to in such grandiose terms. Instead, most classical music lovers know and refer to it simply by its nickname, ‘Für Elise’.
- Consolation in D Flat Major (No.3; S.172) by Franz Liszt. In spite of Liszt’s formidable reputation as a travelling virtuoso and composer whose compositions verge on the unplayable by mere mortals, this series of six pieces comes as a great contrast.
- Song for Sienna by Brian Crain. Moving forward from Liszt into the more contemporary world of into what can broadly be considered Classical music, the Song For Sienna is a calming, reflective piece that may well evoke a relaxed mood.
- Wiegenlied (op.49:no.4) by Johannes Brahms. (Click to play – the video is working) This piano piece is perhaps more commonly referred to as Braham’s lullaby.
- The Adagio from the Clarinet Concerto in A Major; (K. 622) by WA Mozart. One of the final works that Mozart completed before his early death was this clarinet concerto written for his friend and clarinettist, Anton Stadler.
