Classical Baby 3-Pack - Music, Art & Dance

Love love love this dvd set. Bought during pandemic for my little and she fell in love with the cartoons and wonderful masterpieces of music and art and dance . Great way to start exploring art and music and movement with babies and toddlers!

I own around 20 Baby Einstein videos (bought the DVD collection), some Baby Genius and some Brainy Baby too. After watching them a lot, I can be certain than HBO's Classical Baby is the very best baby video ever made. Why?* The music is played by an actual orchestra, not by a computer like similar products. This makes the video a really listening pleasure, even for adults.* Music selection is wide, not just classical music, many contemporary and world music pieces are present, even jazz and mambo. The kind of music that will make your child smarter.* The animations are so beautifull that I don't mind my baby watching it over and over. The replay value of this video set is huge.* When my baby don't want to eat, I put any of these videos and problem solved, by baby eats anything I put in his mouth, even adult food.* When my baby don't want to sleep, I put these videos and he get relaxed, and it is easier to take him to bed.* The animations are based on real life art pieces, so you are giving a lot of culture to the baby. When I took my baby to a real museum, he felt as in home.* Dance scenes are a pure work of art, they touches my soul every time, incredible choreography.* It does not matter the language (english only), this is all about music.* I played this video to my newborn since he was 3 month old, and now he is 16 month old and still his favorite. I also played this video to nephews and neices between two and eight years old, and all of them were glued to the tv.* This production is unique. All competition looks similar when compared to each other, but HBO Classical Baby looks really different from other baby videos available. So if you are looking for variety, buying a cople of Baby Einstein, a cople of Baby Genius and some other Brainy Baby, your are not really buying different things, they all look alike.Finally I would like to add that the reviewer that said that these 3 videos had the same content "is wrong", only the introduction is the same, but all the content from each video is original and related to the title, so Music in mainly Music, Dance is about dancing, and Art is about paintings and sculptures.I have said so many times, thanks HBO, that I decided to make this little review.

I know there are opposing views out there regarding children watching videos/television; I swore I would not have my child be exposed to it early. Well, I was not expecting to have such a visual daughter; it was apparent in my 13-week old since she was practically out of the hospital. I figured I'd rather have her watch something worthwhile than be mesmerized by the tv (which she is).So I ordered these DVDs now instead of waiting until she was older. First, you can't beat the price. Second, she's already watching them and sometimes will keep her attention span for the entire 30 minutes. They're the perfect length without giving your child too much exposure. Now that she's at daycare and I'm back at work, I reserve them for the weekends (which means she sees them about twice a week).What I like most about these DVDs (I first saw them on HBO while I was pregnant) is that they use actual performances of the classical works, rather than some synthesized baby music that I can't stand (and she doesn't respond to).As a musician, I like the themes of each DVD, along with the clever animation for each piece. I especially like the Dance DVD. Enjoy "The Rectangles" set to music from "West Side Story". What I truly like about the Music DVD is that all of the classical music (and from all of them, in fact) is very recognizable, so even someone who is not familiar w/the composers and their music will know the pieces. Although the Art DVD is not as "active" as the other two, it merges art w/classical music, and hopefully, some day, my daughter, on her first trip to any art museum, will somehow "recognize"what she has seen before.At any rate, for this price, give them a shot. And if you don't like them, you haven't wasted much money, and you can regift it to someone who will appreciate them. We do in our household!

Bought these DVD's because I hate the music in Baby Einstein (too electronic) and was hoping to use these to expose baby to the "classics" during long car rides. I really like the dancing DVD the best because it is hard to otherwise expose a toddler to classical dance without taking her to a performance, which obviously would be miserable for her, me, and other patrons. I prefer the books "Mini Masters" over these CD's for the artwork. But, in terms of "educational" DVD's I think these are some of the best. And I like that the classical music is unadulterated.So, I can't say that I "love" this, but I am giving it a 5 star rating because of all the "educational" DVD's out there for her age group these are the best for the subject.It would be nice if HBO would continue this series to include other educational information such as seasons, days of the week, months of the year, numbers/letters, American wildlife and habitats, sports, science, etc.I read and/or sing to my LO at bedtime (NO TV) and bought DVD's solely for the purpose of entertainment during long car rides. So far these have kept her interest and she says "oh no!" when it ends. Too bad each DVD is only 1/2 hour long so I have to make it repeat or pull over and change the DVD. I wish these were all on one DVD so that they would be easier to handle in the car when there's only one adult (driver).