I am interested in building up my collection of interesting versions of Prokofiev's score - particularly those with special narrators.

Any help out there?

miklos

Yes. this would be good.
i like where this is going...

....The Official Star Trek Thread Page 20 post number 482: Peter & the Wolf narrated by Patrick Steward?

:)


http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/official-star-trek-thread-82011/20.html#post1613918

I posted this one awhile back:

PeterAndTheWolf (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/classical-request-58159/45.html#post1515603)

It's post #1103

Hope this helps. I have another version laying around somewhere. I can't remember who narrates it but I'll try to find it. Cheers.

Thanks for those so far, here are a couple more at Internet Archive:

Basil Rathbone with Stokowski conducting the All American Orchestra from July 1941 (a great transfer from 78s by Bob Varney)

Peter and the Wolf : Restoration by Bob Varney : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/PeterAndTheWolf_753)

Jose Ferrer with Goossens and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra (Westminster LP transfer) - "Pedro y el Lobo" in Spanish from 1959

Prokofief: Pedro y el Lobo (Ferrer, Goossens) : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/ProkofiefPedroYElLoboferrerGoossens)

Both available as VBR downloads.

Enjoy ;-)

miklos

Here is the version recorded with Sean Connery - apparently put down during a break from the filming of THUNDERBALL - with Antal Dorati and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It is quite spectacularly recorded hailing from Decca's Phase 4 period.

There are 4 files:

RapidShare AG, Cham, Switzerland (http://rapidshare.com/#!download|414l33|233002329|PtWSrPrDor.part1.rar|1 00431)
RapidShare AG, Cham, Switzerland (http://rapidshare.com/#!download|152tl2|233013179|PtWSrPrDor.part2.rar|1 00431)
RapidShare AG, Cham, Switzerland (http://rapidshare.com/#!download|615l35|233022153|PtWSrPrDor.part3.rar|1 00431)
RapidShare AG, Cham, Switzerland (http://rapidshare.com/#!download|491tg|232993185|PtWSrPrDor.part4.rar|25 473)

Thanks to the original postee.

Has any body seen either the Christopher Lee version with Yehudi Menuhin/English String Orchestra or the Sophia Loren with Kent Nagano and the Russian National Orchestra?

I used to have an LP of David Bowie narrating...it was great...I'll look for it.

Here is a curious one from 1975 narrated by Viv Stanshall and featuring a rock line-up (Manfred Mann/Gary Brooker/Chris Spedding/Gary Moore/Stephane Grappelli/ENO/Keith Tippett/Jack Lancaster/Jon Heisman/Bill Bruford/Cozy Powell/Phil Collins). It is more of a concept album using both the original storyline and the musical themes by Prokofiev. A real curate's egg. 2 good sounding FLAC files.

RapidShare AG, Cham, Switzerland (http://rapidshare.com/#!download|760tl3|249345493|Peter_and_the_wolf.par t1.rar|110000)
RapidShare AG, Cham, Switzerland (http://rapidshare.com/#!download|495l33|249363350|Peter_and_the_wolf.par t2.rar|97755)

Thanks to the original postee.

I am interested in building up my collection of interesting versions of Prokofiev's score - particularly those with special narrators.

Any help out there?

miklos


… and here is a nice good-quality jazzy version I found on a Cuban (yes Cuban!) web site in MP3-320:
RapidShare AG, Cham, Switzerland (http://rapidshare.com/#!download|465tl|333393321|Peter_and_the_Wolf_rar. rar|67879)

Thanks for this, Yen - great listen

Thanks.

Here is David Bowie’s charming and gentle reading in MP3-320. Interestingly, he was RCA's third choice to narrate after both Alec Guinness and Peter Ustinov turned the project down, though I would love to hear them too. Credit to the original posters.



https://mega.co.nz/#!5NF2mA5B!DvUo4WPCQ5RjyzedCJQDQx0O7c5G1PsjBbL7iFu Xc_4

Thank you, Yen. Truly a fantastic version of this classic.

Thank U!!

Been waiting to hear the Sean Connery version ... TY!

I've got two different versions not posted here. OP, please PM me for a reminder to post.

---------- Post added at 04:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:47 PM ----------

^^^^^
One's an SACD and the other is DVD-A.

Btw, does anyone have the Disney version (audio or video)?

As promised: Thread 96419

Bowie's version (#11) re-upped as requested. Detailed notes included.

(edited -- redundant)

Very nice. Some people, I also heard, liked the one narrated by Sterling Holloway for the Disney version. Still, these are all great finds.

Thanks Yen for the David Bowie version!

Here is an awesome hard-to-find 1959 recording narrated by the English actor Michael Flanders. Scared the crap out of me as a kid:



https://mega.co.nz/#!nR0kRRpQ!3YLtUGfc8j5BcKQDDVB5cFUWR1GgHqs4HcG83PM TjLM

Album also includes Saint-Sa�ns' The Carnival Of The Animals, Faure's Dolly Suite and Britten's The Young Persons Guide To The Orchestra

Conductor – Efrem Kurtz (tracks: 1-19), Sir Charles Groves (tracks: 22-41), Sir Thomas Beecham (tracks: 20-21)
Narrator – Michael Flanders (tracks: 1-5)
Orchestra – French National Radio Orchestra* (tracks: 20-21), Philharmonia Orchestra (tracks: 1-19), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (tracks: 22-41)
Piano – Abbey Simon (tracks: 6-19), Hephzibah Menuhin (tracks: 6-19)

Thank you for this!
Much appreciated!

Dudley Moore once narrated a version with the Boston Pops.

Would love it if someone could share the Karloff or Patrick Stewart recordings...

there is a great (emmy winning) performance with conductor herbert von karajan and the berlin philharmonics, narrated by peter ustinov!

There is a version of Peter and the Wolf floating around narrated by Sean Connery that I have been looking for....

thank you!

Not to sound too plebeian, but does anyone have a copy of the Disney version, narrated by Sterling Holloway, that came from "Make Mine Music" (1946)? Thanks!

Here is David Bowie�s charming and gentle reading in MP3-320. Interestingly, he was RCA's third choice to narrate after both Alec Guinness and Peter Ustinov turned the project down, though I would love to hear them too. Credit to the original posters.



https://mega.co.nz/#!5NF2mA5B!DvUo4WPCQ5RjyzedCJQDQx0O7c5G1PsjBbL7iFu Xc_4

OMG, David Bowie! This is awesome! Thank you, Yen_!