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Summary: Baby Mozart is better
Review: Having enjoyed Baby Mozart, we bought this (and Baby Van Gogh) for our baby--but this one was disappointing. The most disturbing thing to me is the role that Julie Clark's two daughters play in this video. They tell silly jokes, smile at the camera, hug each other--it's a little weird, frankly, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Bach.
The coordination between the music and the moving toys on the screen is also not as good in this video as in Baby Mozart. The toys don't do as much, and the camera doesn't move in very interesting ways. (On at least five different occasions, the camera just sits on a toy instrument, while someone plays a major scale--on a completely different instrument--in the background. That's not very imaginative.) Finally, I don't like the performances of the music on the synthesizer. I think Bach can be performed on real musical instruments in ways that even very young children can enjoy.
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Summary: Nothing lazy about it!
Review: My husband and I bought this video for our son when he was 7 months old. Since he found classical music soothing and I played a few Bach pieces on the piano, I thought he'd recognize the music. He absolutely loved it! I remember how he used to crawl over to the tv every time he heard it starting. He especially loved the robots. Now he's 20 months old, and has grown with the video. He now names objects and repeats sound effects. He owns the entire series and they are all great in their own right, But Baby Bach will always be special because it was the first one he owned. I don't understand why people have such a problem with Julie Clark's daughters being in the video. We love watching them grow in the series just like we love watching our own son grow. And our son learned to clap his hands and play peek-a-boo by watching the girls in the video do it over and over again. I wish we would've had this video when our son was newborn.
Rating: 
Summary: Underwhelming
Review: This one bores my son (4 mos.), which is no mean feat considering a lightbulb can occupy his attention for half an hour. Maybe these folks can come up with a Baby Lightbulb series; it would take as much craft as the video in question, which is mostly static camera shots of toys and home-video-esque "ain't she a darling?" shots of their kids.
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Summary: Baby Bach
Review: We bought this video and all of the other Baby Einstein DVDs when out daughter was about 2 months old. She absolutely loves Baby Bach. She's 10 months now and it is harder to hold her attention. But for the past 8 months, if we played that DVD, she'd stop what she was doing and be glued to the video. She becomes bored with the still pictures of the toys and the children playing. She loves the music of Bach. We purchased Baby Beethoven also, but Baby Bach is still her favorite. We're starting on all the other videos now, she really likes the puppets. We purchased those for her, they are a little disappointing compared to the fancier ones in the video, but she likes them anyway. Baby Einstein is a good purchase. I highly recommend the DVDs.
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Summary: Love It!
Review: My 12 month old son has been something of a challenge since birth. Early on we dicovered that Baby Mozart was a guaranteed quiet half-hour. At two months he didn't mind watching the same video day after day, but the music became a fixture in MY head and I needed a break. We were fortunate to have been able to borrow Bach, Mozart, and Einstein on DVD. We never did get into Einstein, but Bach became a fast 2nd favorite. Doolittle Neighborhood Animals came in a close 3rd for a while. Several months ago we returned the DVDs and I found I really missed the music from Bach. It turned out, so did my son. Since he has become a busy explorer, the videos (including Mozart to a degree)have not been able to hold his interest for long. In addition, he will not watch anything else on the TV -- no other shows capture his interest. But when I purchased the Bach DVD for him, he was instantly captivated and has been ever since. I know he remembered it. While I'm not as thrilled with the content as I am with some of the others (Mozart and both Doolittles especially) I know that my son loves watching the little girls dance and play. I choose to believe that he will learn from their movements as much as he might from the actions of the toys and the music. I highly recommend all of the videos, but Baby Bach and Mozart are by far the best choices for little babies.
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Summary: Baby cries!
Review: My son doesn't like that DVD at all.
When he was around 3 months old I bought 3 DVDs: Bach, Beethoven, & Mozart.
He loves Beethoven & Mozart, but starts to cry whenever he seas and hears Bach.
I love Bach myself and was confused of my child's behavior. I decided to wait and see if he will like it later on.
Now when my son is 1 y.o. he still cries for Bach.
Rating:
Summary: There are better DVDs in this series
Review: I bought this disc along with the whole Baby Einetein series for my 6 month old, and he still watches it at 2 years. This follows in the tradition of most of the Baby Einstein discs as it is great for kids' skills. Parents will enjoy teaching their kids with these discs. Also the discs offer just the music separately. The only thing I personally dislike strongly about these discs is that Julie Clark puts her kids in to perform rather inanely, and they have little to no value. This disc strikes me the most as it is just about two of her kids playing while you can see them taking direction from someone off-camera. That's all fine and dandy, but I think this disc would have benefitted without her daughters' jokes and canned laughter mixed in.
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Summary: Best for infants
Review: The images and music here are great for 1-6 months. I suspect that, beyond that age range, it won't likely hold our child's attention for as long. Baby Mozart is a bit peppier and diverse, and Baby Neptune and Baby Van Gogh have more depth and breadth. Still, Baby Bach is where we started, and a good way to start the series. But if your child is already into some of the others, I don't recommend going back to this one.
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Summary: Amateurish!
Review: My six-month-old and I had enjoyed a number of the Baby Einstein video titles, and the Baby Bach Concert for Little Ears was a naptime favorite. So the Baby Bach DVD seemed like a safe bet, and I bought it without looking at the reviews here. Mistake! I agree with the parents who were a little disturbed by the overexposure of little Aspen and Sierra, but I think the sound mixing bothered me even more. We'd seen the video several times before I could hear Sierra's riddle clearly enough to understand why those freakin' chickens keep showing up. ("Bach, Bach," nyuck, nyuck.) They don't seem to bother Six-month-old, though, and neither does the shoddy digital editing that makes the robots look so pixelley to me. In short, Baby says thumbs up, Mom tries not to pay attention when it's on.
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Summary: Not the best
Review: This video is nice enough, but both Baby and I prefer the Baby Mozart video. This one has more of the incongruous, un-Bach-related bits than we would like, and unlike other reviewers' children, my 2-month-old cries when he sees the kids on the video. Perhaps he's a little young for it, but since I'm a huge Bach fan, I wanted to share something with Baby. I think we'll stick to my Bach CDs and the Baby Mozart DVD for now, and try this again when he's a little older.
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