Baby Sleep
I think this music is intended for adults, though the photo on the cover is of a sleeping  baby. In any event, Schumann's work,Scenes From Childhood, Op. 15, featured here is  more likely to bolt you out of bed than put you to sleep, as the mike is far too close to the piano  being played by Cyprien Katsaris. Purcell's Adagio fromThe Indian Queenis magnificent,  performed by John Elliott Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists. The Weird Award goes to  triple harpist Tim Hobrough and lutenist Stephen Barber for their bizarre, spiky rendition of  Minuets Nos. 4 and 5 from the Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach. I would like to meet Bill  Holland, producer of all these Atlantic Records classical compilations. He's programmed Satie's  Gymnopedie No. 1 on three different CDs, billed alternately as sensuous, romantic, and now here:  good for a long snooze.--Gwendolyn Freed