Classical Music - Help Me Identify This Song

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My 2-month old son loves this mirror from the Baby Einstein company. In paticular, the song linked below can make him smile and laugh through the loudest of screams. Can someone identify it for me (I’m guessing Mozart) so that I can get it on CD? Sorry for the poor quality but I recorded this directly off the toy.

http://home.comcast.net/~larsenmtl/musicsample.mp3

Little Nathan thanks you!

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The URL with the MP3 isn’t working for me.

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Really?

Do you get a 404 error. Strange.

Try this one -->

http://www.larsen.is-a-geek.com/music.html

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That one worked. It’s not familiar to me, though. Pretty piece. It does sound like Mozart.

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well, acording to the link, it’s either going to be Vivaldi, Bach & Mozart. I couldn’t identify it, but I bet if you email the company they could tell you.

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It’s Mozart’s “Sonata Facile”, the Sonata in C, K545

First movement, actually. Often used as “Granny Music” in Tweety and Sylvester, etc.

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Here is a midi starting from the beginning, I’m sure you’ll recognize the first theme…

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Wow, that baby-mirror version sure is slowed down quite a bit from the original piece, isn’t it? (Enough to make it hard for me to recognize, anyway.)

So, K364, should I assume that you’ve named yourself after Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante? You got any recommended recordings? Perhaps I’ll expose myself as a philistine, but some years ago I bought the Perlman/Zuckerman performance and found that I didn’t much care for it, even though the CD came with all sorts of glowing reviews.

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Let’s see if the artsy types over in Cafe Society can help you.

Off to Cafe Society.

DrMatrix - GQ Moderator

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Thanks K364. Good ear.

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The ThemeFinder is a great resource for this kind of thing (and give you the same answer that K364 gave.)

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I totally agree regarding Perlman/Zuckerman, they try to do too much with the music… wringing every drop of meaning out of it. the second movement is left as a soggy mess on the floor!

For Mozart, Haydn and even Beethoven, Schubert I prefer the central Europeans as opposed to Americans, English and Russians. These Germans/Dutch/Czechs have a more impersonal approach and let Mozart do the talking.

For the Sinfonia Concertante, K364 I like Karl Bohm with the Berlin Phil. on DGG with two Principals from the Orchestra: Brandis, Cappone.