Start with some great music, add some unforgettable human and animal characters, a symphony orchestra, three very unusual narrators, and let the fun begin.
In this hour, a program for the young—and the young at heart: Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals, with Noel Coward, Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra with Dame Edna Everage, and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, narrated by Boris Karloff.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
| CD Title | Group/Artist | Catalog # | UPC |
| Peter and the Wolf/Carnival of the Animals [for Carnival of the Animals and show-opening of Peter and the Wolf] | Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard | Naxos 8.550335 | 730099533522 |
| Archy and Mehitabel [for Carnival of the Animals] | Noel Coward | DRG 19064 | 021471906424 |
| Peter and the Wolf, etc. [for Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra] | Dame Edna Everage, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, John Lanchbery | Naxos 8.554170 | 636943417027 |
| Peter and the Wolf | Boris Karloff, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Mario Rossi | Vanguard Classics ATM CD 1803 | 499675180324 |
