Sparky’s Magic Baton

     Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 31, 2025
     Category: Music | Fantasy | 1950s





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If you want to introduce a child to classical music, you can't do much better than either Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, or Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

Here's Peter and the Wolf, narrated by, would you believe it, Gordon Sumner a.k.a. Sting (I have this one on CD):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuqgqqpFoZw&list=PL-HUaOhrcOmCG_YbMkpIpBOYhPd_MSNHQ

Here's the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra narrated by nobody less than the original narrator, Peter Pears, with a nicely plummy RP English voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjOiZReM7m4

And here it is narrated by - would you believe it! - the original Commander Bond, with... well, that well-known acshent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKjQlF-2WiA&list=PLVJ2vTa3CVnRfyNtgOFrN8e2exV8Om4uI
Posted by Richard Bos on 02/01/25 at 11:02 AM









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