[ naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 22 September 2007
This item is currently out of stock. We expect to be able to supply it to you within 2 - 4 weeks from when you place your order.
The Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev wrote his Peter and the Wolf in 1936 to introduce to children the instruments of the orchestra. He had taken his two sons to see performances at the Moscow Children's Music Theatre and this had suggested to him the possibility of a composition of this kind.
Saint-Saens:
Carnival of the Animals
Prokofiev:
Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67
Britten:
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34