Search - Robin Hendrix :: Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (Children's Music)

Winner of the coveted Parents' Choice Approved Award, June 2002! "A sumptuous collection." - Parenting Magazine, August 2002 --- Composed and arranged by Sir J.W. Elliott, "Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs" was first published in the 1870s in London and quickly became a fond part of childhood for millions of children for more than a century. Recital singer Robin Hendrix presents the first recording of this wonderful music just as Sir James conceived it. The songs contain lyrics from Mother Goose's nursery rhymes and from popular English children's poems. The CD cover is an eight-panel foldout containing some of the charming engravings created especially for this music by the famed Dalziel Brothers studio. This recording is a unique and delightful means of introducing good music to young children. At the time this music was composed, the nursery rhymes were already well known in England, but the new settings helped establish the collection as a national treasure. In addition to the nursery rhymes, the nursery songs give a charming glimpse of an idealized childhood at the height of the Victorian period. Some songs show the gentle humor of the time ("Three Children Sliding"), while others were used to convey morals ("Maggie's Pet", "Mother Tabbyskins"). The quality of compositions like "When the Snow is on the Ground" and "The Spider and the Fly" brings to mind composers like Schubert and Gilbert & Sullivan.