The Nursery
In the days when serious composers wrote good music for children to play, sing or just to appreciate, many minor classics were penned. Mussorgsky’s “The Nursery” is such and the British songs here, settings of masterpieces of prose by A.A. Milne and Kipling among others, are also of the highest standard, one or two having become ingrained in the memories of a generation.
Track Listing
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Harold Fraser-Simpson:
- Halfway Down (1:44) Edward German:
- From the Just So Song Book - I. When the cabin portholes (1:30)
- From the Just So Song Book - II. The First Friend (2:11)
- From the Just So Song Book - III. The camel's hump (2:53)
- From the Just So Song Book - IV. I keep six honest serving men (2:06)
- From the Just So Song Book - V. There was never a Queen like Balkis (1:47)
- From the Just So Song Book - VI. Rolling down to Rio (2:01) Harold Fraser-Simpson:
- Animals - I. At the Zoo (1:41)
- Animals - II. The Christening (2:02)
- Animals - III. The Four Friends (1:23)
- Animals -IV. Missing (1:50)
- Animals - V. Twice Times (2:23) Modest Mussorgsky:
- The Nursery -I. With Nanny (2:08)
- The Nursery - II. In the Corner (1:55)
- The Nursery - III. The Beetle (2:44)
- The Nursery - With the Doll (2:05)
- The Nursery - Bedtime Prayer (2:15)
- The Nursery - Sailor the Cat (2:01)
- The Nursery - Riding the Hobbyhorse (3:35) Harold Fraser-Simpson:
- Disobedience (2:46)
- The King's Breakfast (3:29)
- Sneezies (1:49)
- Bad Sir Brian (3:54)
- The Emperor's Rhyme (2:43) Thea Musgrave
- A Suite o' Bairnsangs - I. The Man in the Moon (1:02)
- A Suite o' Bairnsangs - II. Daffodils (2:10)
- A Suite o' Bairnsangs - III. Willie Webster (1:23)
- A Suite o' Bairnsangs - IV. A Child's Prayer at Night (1:07)
- A Suite o' Bairnsangs - V. The Cherry Tree (1:20) Harold Fraser-Simpson:
- Wind on the Hill (1:47)
- Buckingham Palace (2:32)
- If I were King (1:42)
- Lines and Squares (1:43)
- Market Square (3:09)
