Track Listing

1. Meciendo
2. Ninito Ven/Arrobo Mi Nino
3. Negrito
4. El Angel De La Guarda
5. La Muneca
6. El Elefante
7. Duermete Clavel
8. San Augustine
9. Duermete Mi Nino
10. Abuelita
11. Rana
12. Nana De Sevilla
13. Rocio
14. Toronjil
15. I Rock My Child
16. Come Little Child
17. Negrito
18. Guardian Angel
19. My Little Doll
20. The Elephant
21. Sleep Rosie Flower
22. St. Augustine
23. Go To Sleep
24. Grand Mother
25. Frog
26. Nana Of Sevilla
27. Dew Drop
28. This Beautiful Child

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #94486 in Music
• Released on: 1999-02-16
• Number of discs: 1

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Lullabies Of Latin America

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Gifted with a gracefully pliant midrange soprano, stellar recording artist Maria Del Rey here turns her attention to lullabies and to an immersion of culture and language with Latin American poems adapted and translated for this purpose. Del Rey delivers the first half of Lullabies of Latin America in the gently fluid tones of Spanish, then follows up in the second half with a repeat of the same songs sung in English. Del Rey's cello, piano, and acoustic guitar figure prominently, and she is also accompanied by a talented group of musicians on percussion, strings, flute, and oboe, as well as on Peruvian harp, panpipes, and other traditional Latin American instrumentation. "Duerme Clave" and its English counterpart, "Sleep Rosie Flower," are particularly engaging, featuring soft piano and elegant lines of Spanish classical guitar. "San Augustine" and its correlation are gorgeously slumber-inducing duets. With their unhindered capacity for linguistics, wee ones will be sweetly singing along with both versions in no time. --Paige La Grone

From Parents' Choice®
Beautiful, professionally produced tender quiet-time poetry and songs by writers and composers from Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Cuba, given a home-cozy feel in the sweetness and purity of bilingual recording artist Maria Del Rey's vocals, and the other adult and child voices heard here. A 1999 Parents' Choice® Gold Award Winner. (Lynne Heffley, Parents' Choice®)

Customer Reviews

Great addition to materials for raising a bilingual child
This CD is excellent and I'm glad to have it in my collection. María del Rey has a beautiful voice and the men and children reciting poetry are refreshing.

I am an educator who plans to raise my children bilingually and I find this CD to be an excellent addition to my collection of music in Spanish. As a native speaker of English who has learned Spanish to near-native ability, I am happy to have as many resources in Spanish as possible and look forward to singing and sharing these songs/rhymes (esp. the Spanish versions) with my child. While my baby has not yet arrived (he's on the way!) and I can't say what will put him to sleep, I disagree with several that have said the poetry and speaking by children and a man are disrupting. While some are slightly more upbeat than María del Rey's songs, I still find them very soothing (hopefully my baby will too!). I also disagree with a reviewer who said these are not traditional. I know I've heard some of these before and another reviewer mentioned that she remembered some from childhood.

That said, my favorite lullaby CD is "Latin Lullaby" which has 17 songs (1 in Portuguese, 3 instrumentals and the rest in Spanish). Songs by "El Cri-Cri" and "De Colores" by José Luis Orozco are also in my collection (not lullabies, though.)

Wow what a voice!
I am a grandmother who has given Maria Del Rey CDs to everyone in my family and to friends who have young children. It a gift that I love to give. Maria has an amazing and tender voice. I can feel her heart in every note. She is rare gem to have that kind of talent and share it with our children.

Maria Del Rey's Lullabies are great for nap times
As an Educator and mother, I highly reccomend Lullabies of Latin America. In my family we have a long tradition of
handing down music, books and stories. Maria has totally captured the beauty and warmth that I remember my mother and my abuela singing to me as a child. These are the classics, these beautiful lullabies brought such tender emotion in me when
I first heard them. When I taught preschool for a few years
the children always loved Maria's voice. The whole atmosphere was so peaceful in class during our nap times. When you work in the trenches with children everyday you need materials that work and I trust Maria Del Rey's work, she is just wonderful.