Through the Raindrops

Track Listings

1. Through the Raindrops

2. Troubland Bolero

3. Quiet Jungle

4. Chelsea Day

5. Riverside

6. Fleur D'Ennui

7. Deborah's Theme

8. Street Song

9. In the Rain

10. Sleep Walk

Editorial Reviews
Harry Smith and Paul Zahn - "CBS This Morning"
"Wait till you hear a guy named Robert Bonfiglio; he can make a harmonica sing like nothing you've ever heard before.... Now when you were at Carnegie Hall he was at that concert ..... and he was sensational!" - Harry Smith and Paula Zahn - "CBS This Morning"

Product Description
Sophisticated acoustic music

Through the Raindrops

Through the Raindrops,Bonfiglio

Tracks:

All Through The Night
All The Pretty Little Horses
All Night, All Day
Armenian Lullaby
Baby's Bed's A Silver Moon
Baloo, Baleerie
Brahms' Lullaby
Brezairola
Traumerei, Op. 15, No. 1
Can Ye Sew Cushions
By'm Bye
Bye, Baby Bunting - Golden Slumbers
Dance To Your Daddy - Dance, Little Baby
Fais Dodo
Good Night To You All
Jocelyn: Berceuse
Hush, Little Baby
Kumbayah
Little Boy Blue
Suo Gan
Matthew, Mark, Luke, And John
Mozart's Lullaby
Chanson de Nuit, Op. 15, No. 1
Now The Day Is Over - Raindrops
Raisins And Almonds
Rock-A-Bye, Baby
Rocking - The Sandman
Tales Of Hoffman: O Bell Nuit - Bacarolle
Skidamarink
Sleep, Baby, Sleep
Sweet And Low
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Toora, Loora, Loora
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Twinkel, Twinkel, Little Star
When At Night I Go To Sleep

Amazon.com

Released as a companion piece to the award-winning book Lullabies: An Illustrated Songbook, this hour-plus of music is a wonderful mix of stately classical themes and child-friendly vocals. The selections range from "All the Pretty Little Horses" to a global spread of lullabies drawn from classical and folk traditions. The music is spare, with Kapp on piano, Julianne Baird and Kapp's daughter Madeline on vocals, and Mela Tenenbaum on violin, viola, and occasional vocals. Most of the classical selections (from Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Edmund Elgar, W.A. Mozart, et al.) get a straight-ahead, accomplished treatment. Lest you think the project stuffy, each of the melodies is in the one- to two-minute range, which effectively mandates a stronger sense of flow than most children's collections. Kapp, who managed to create a visual and poetic flow in the Lullabies book, keeps things nicely in a groove here, knowing enough to segue into silly tracks about halfway through the CD to provide a wider emotional range. This album every bit as accomplished as the book. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful!.......2007-02-14

I love this CD. It's very well-done, and the approach is different than most children's CDs - very refined, yet soothing. I don't get tired of listening to it the way I do others -- which is important when trying to get a little one to sleep! I highly recommend it and the companion book.

Simple and sweet songs.......2006-04-02

With just piano, violin and vocals, this is a simple and heartfelt album. Ms. Baird's voice conveys the full emotions that a mother feels for her new baby with clean and open singing. The first track in particular, "All Through The Night," still makes me teary. I played this in the hospital when my son was born, and we use it as part of our wind-down ritual. I do agree that some of the songs are a little upbeat for bedtime. We just skip those in the evening (using iTunes).

Marvellous cd, enchanting music.......2005-10-18

Our whole family loves this cd. I am continually charmed and refreshed by the subtlety, taste and musicianship that has gone into these arrangements of well- and lesser-known gems. Apart from the joy of the simple yet perfect chordal progressions, listen to the warm, caressing tone imparted by the low bass notes in the piano in many of the tracks. The pace is so wonderfully leisurely, there is time to savour each song or piece, and yet each lasts only two or three minutes. The three diverse yet complementary singers, each with a tender and gentle presence suiting the subject matter, give a sense of a 19th century family musical evening. Magical.

Good if you want to sing from the book but can't read music.......2004-02-10

I bought this solely because I have the book and wanted to sing the lullabies to my kids, but I can't read music. For this purpose it is fine. The songs are not in the same order as in the book but I can deal. As a stand-alone lullaby CD I wouldn't really recommend it--the songs are not sung in a soothing manner, there's lots of variety in tempo and volume, some are even sung up-beat. The voices are not pitched high enough for babies either. That being said, I am back on Amazon today to buy it for my sister who is due any day now with her 3rd kid--we both like to sing and have the book, and songs (in book or music form) are a great present that the baby won't grow out of for a long time, and helps you bond with your little one too.

Didn't like the voice........2002-12-11

I bought this cd to go with the book and it is very frustrating because the songs on this cd are not even in the same order as the book. The singing voice fluctuates too much, it will be really soft and then it gets really high pitch. And if you have the volume set at a lower level for some songs then you can't hear other songs. I think there are better cds to buy than this one.

Average customer rating:

Big dissappointment to me
Harmonica at the Nth degree

Through the Raindrops
Robert Bonfiglio
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000I9IS
Release Date: 1992-07-01

Tracks:

Through the Raindrops
Troubland Bolero
Quiet Jungle
Chelsea Day
Riverside
Fleur D'Ennui
Deborah's Theme
Street Song
In the Rain
Sleep Walk

Album Description

Sophisticated acoustic music

Customer Reviews:

Big dissappointment to me.......2003-09-03

Much of this music is aimless or meant to be background music.
The highpoints in terms of playing and originality I think are really more taken up by Bonfiglio's guitar player. Some vocals chimed in in some parts and alot of the music seemed to be weak and dated instrumental garbage. If there is no lyrics and voice, the music needs to pick up the slack from accompaniment to forefront take charge melody, rythm and beat. This album's music usually doesn't. Alot of the times the sound of a song changes but doesn't get better. It is just not very adventurous or captivating. It is really dissappointing to me and not really very creative [just weak in general ]. This 1992 recording reminds my alot of the eighties instrumentation that tried hard to distance itself from rough style rock and roll and ended as a cheap imitation of itself over and over again and doomed its future to elevators everywhere. I expected a special and haunting album full of one of my favorite instruments. I like about twenty percent of the album. Sleepwalk was nice to hear recomposed but Bonfiglio did not overtake the original [ though this is one of the few times where I was eager to hear a song really pumped up compositionally because I liked the core of it so much.]but rather underwhelms with his instrument. Such a capable musician with such little daring. Not nearly his best, though later recordings are often fantastic. Pass this one by There is a reason why most of his other recordings are sold out completely and this one is not. I can't recommend this effort.

Harmonica at the Nth degree.......2001-03-07

Say the word "harmonica" and most people think of a little kid huffing and puffing "I Came From Alabama" for the birthday crowd gathered around the dining room table...or a lonely cowboy under a starry canopy, next to the chuckwagon, chasing his loneliness away by droning "Get Along Little Dogies" on his 4" Hohner Chromatic.

Get ready for a delightful surprise. Robert Bonfiglio matches neither of those images. Think "classical", think "artiste", think "masterful", think "transcendent", think "awesome", and none of those quite communicate the level of artistry that Bonfiglio has achieved with this often-discounted musical instrument. Combine one or two scoops of all those words and you start to imagine the tonal delight that awaits the listener's ear.

After you have checked the samples here, take a low-calculated risk and buy Through the Raindrops as a first sample of what the rest of his collection has in store for you.

Average customer rating:
Through the Raindrops
Robert Bonfiglio
Manufacturer: High Harmony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008F6BF
Release Date: 1994-04-07