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Author: claclaws
Date: 2005-02-26 06:32
Recently I bought 'Peter and the wolf' with Sumi Jo, a Korean soprano, as narrator. My kids and I had great fun listening to the CD while looking at the picture book. (the illustration is excellent too).
I heard many famous people did the narration for this piece, including Bernstein, Sting, Sophie Marceau, to name a few.
Could you recommend a narrator? Whose narration did you(or your kids) enjoy most?
Thanks in advance.
Lucy Lee Jang
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2005-02-26 07:29
The cat from Peter And The Wolf is the reason I started learning clarinet at age 7. It is still probably my favorite piece or at least one of my favorites.
The best narration I've heard was by violinist Itzchak (Issac in English think) Perlman, but it's in Hebrew. What made it special is the reading itself was like music.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2005-02-26 11:55
I have one with Russian narration...
Bob Draznik
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Author: msloss
Date: 2005-02-26 20:10
David Bowie's with the Phillie is pretty decent -- actually kind've hard to find a really superior orchestral performance combined with a good celebrity reading
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Author: pzaur
Date: 2005-02-26 20:20
There's supposedly a narration out there by Weird Al Yankovic. Has anyone heard this one? I don't know the orchestra.
-pat
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-02-26 20:29
"...actually kind've hard to find a really superior orchestral performance combined with a good celebrity reading..."
Few better than the 1984 Israel Philharmonic/Mehta recording with Perlman narrating (in English)...GBK
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Author: clarinetwife
Date: 2005-02-27 01:07
I'm with GBK and Boris and a big Weird Al fan although I haven't heard this recording.
Bill Clinton--really?
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Author: larryb
Date: 2005-02-27 01:18
Clinton recorded it with Michail Gorbachev - I believe it won a Grammy for spoken word recording.
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2005-02-27 02:24
There's an Australian recording with Dame Edna narrating with MSO. It's, err, interesting.
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2005-02-27 03:29
I have a great CD called Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale. This is a Klezmer adaptation of Peter and the Wolf, the words are written and spoken by Maurice Sendak. There is also a booklet with the story and Sendak's illustrations. The music is played amazingly by the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra and is funny as well. Glenn Dickson is the clarinettist. I bought it on Amazon.com.
John
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2005-02-27 04:17
John,
I checked with amazon.com.
[edit] indeed this is an interesting CD.
Thank you.
Lucy Lee Jang
Post Edited (2005-02-27 05:12)
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2005-02-27 06:03
"Few better than the 1984 Israel Philharmonic/Mehta recording with Perlman narrating (in English)...GBK"
The one I heard was also with the Israeli philharmonic and Perlman narrating (in Hebrew). Perlman was great, the orchestra was poor at best. I guess they were better in 1984.
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Author: leonardA
Date: 2005-02-27 13:38
I'm showing my age, but when I was a kid a had a record with Sterling Holloway narrating. He was fabulous. Don't know if there are copies around anymore.
Leonard
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2005-02-27 15:35
A very funny narration by Dom DeLuise, a popular US comic, was done by The Little Orchestra Society in the early 1990s.
I believe it's still available on CD from Music Masters
(The Musical Heritage Society).
CD: #01612-67067-2
http://www.musicalheritage.com/cgi-bin/mhs
Product #5168572
PS Another nice feature of this CD is the coloring book which is included!
While listening to us play this lovely piece, you can practice your coloring skills. Good luck,
"The Little Orchestra Society of New York City received a National Endowment grant to produce a recording of some of its most memorable Young People's Concerts that had been sold out events at the Lincoln Center for many years. For this recording, they included two world premieres and attracted three great narrators. Gerald McBoing Boing is a Dr. Seuss tale set to orchestral accompaniment and the performance by Carol Channing is mesmerizing. A Zoo Called Earth, written by no less than Peter Schickele (known to many as P.D.Q. Bach), is a charming tale narrated here by Schickele. The third work, Peter and the Wolf, is one that has been done so many times, you might wonder how could it be kept interesting. Having been to the recording sessions, I can only let you know that Dom DeLuise's performances were so entertaining that the legendary producer, Thomas Z. Shepard, as well as the rest of the recording crew were crying with laughter during his recitation of this great work for narrator and orchestra.
This recording enables all of us to hear these wonderful pieces that very few actually would ever get to hear in the concert hall. The music and the performances are entertaining for people of all ages.
-Jeffrey R. Nissim"
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
Post Edited (2005-02-27 15:53)
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-02-27 18:05
Who, maybe Oscar Wilde ??. added some "asides" to the story, such as Boys like Peter are not Afraid of Wolves", or is that original ?? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-02-27 18:58
Attachment: Peter and the Wolf0089.JPG (360k)
Don Berger wrote:
> Who, maybe Oscar Wilde ??. added some "asides" to the story,
> such as Boys like Peter are not Afraid of Wolves", or is that
> original ?? Don
Nope...It is written that way in the score...GBK
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-02-27 19:16
TKS, dern it, GBK. Is P D Q's version available without copyright problems being generated? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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