Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf (Joanna Lumley narrator) [MP3]

Joanna Lumley – Peter and the Wolf narration ~ 70th birthday on Classic FM 20160501

Radio station: Classic FM
Location: United Kingdom
Programme title: David Mellor
Broadcast: May 1 2016 7-9pm
Time: 1 hour 42 minutes
PM me for link or you can download from the Classic FM website

On her 70th birthday, English national treasure Joanna Lumley picks the classical music that inspires her. To round off the programme, David Mellor has selected a recording of Peter and The Wolf, featuring Joanna Lumley as narrator and her husband, Stephen Barlow, conducting. Her clear and distinctive upper class voice is one of my favourite readings and the sound quality is very good.

I recorded this on a timer from digital radio. For the first time I used a music file splitter to separate the recordings and remove the commercials. Searching from Google and testing different free sites, I found WavePad Audio File Splitter the easiest to use on a Windows 10 touch screen laptop. If anyone can suggest a better application, please let me know.

Track list
01. Schubert – Impromptu in A flat (Daniel Barenboim piano)
02. Rossini – Semiramide overture (Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio Pappano)
03. Mozart – Countess’s aria from the Marriage of Figaro (Dorothea R�schmann singer)
04. Puccini – One Fine Day aria from Madama Butterfly (Maria Callas singer) includes talk about Lumley’s forthcoming documentary on Japan
05. Beethoven – Scherzo from Symphony No. 3 ‘Heroic’ (BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli)
06. Dvoř�k – Song to the Moon from opera Rusalka (sung by Ren�e Fleming)
07. Beethoven – Slow Movement from Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Emperor’ (Daniel Barenboim piano, New Philharmonia Orchestra under Otto Klemperer)
08. Sinding – Rustle of Spring (John Ogdon piano – famously attacked his wife in front of the Queen!)
09. Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf (Joanna Lumley narrator, English Northern Philharmonia under Stephen Barlow 1999)
10. Joanna Lumley talking of her future projects and final thoughts

Oooooo. Nice! Thanks!!

Terrific, thanks!

Is it the same recording as this?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00EBBDOMA/

I suspect it’s the same recording. Someone at Amazon said the music is too loud in comparison to the spoken voice but the Classic FM broadcast seems nicely balanced to me, maybe they tweaked it.