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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Musicians / Roger Waters (narrator) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] Rock legend Roger Waters has adapted the narration and recorded Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale where he narrates the whole of this harrowing modern fairy tale himself. |
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FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 5 (Incls Barbar, the little Elephant) Francois Mouzaya (narrator), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Laurent Lefevre (bassoon), Stephane Logerot (double bass), Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2000 ] "The narrators are two gifted children, the pianist Alezandre Tharaud, whose acute playing has sparked the series." Turok's Choice |
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Tim Marlow (narrator)
Great Artists Two: Constable (1776-1837) [ Seventh Art Productions DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] There have been few more powerful painters of landscape than John Constable. He brought a scale, ambition and impact to a subject long considered amongst the lowest forms of art. Constable is often celebrated as a nostalgic painter of a lost England... |
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
1001 Nights: Sinbad the Sailor and other stories Bernard Cribbins (narrator) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Enrique Batiz [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "...It's an exciting performance, and Batiz elicits a good bit of fire from the Philharmonia. For this re-issue... Naxos has grafted on Mr Cribbins's reading of four episodes from the Tales of the Arabian Nights. While very well read and entertaining... |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / etc
Children's Classics [incls 'Peter & the Wolf' & 'Carnival of the Animals'] Beatrice Lillie (narrator), Kenneth McKellar, Julius Katchen (piano). Gary Graffman (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Skitch Henderson [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 6/Feb/2000 ] "it will appeal to children of all ages... a collector's item" (Penguin Guide) |
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David Attenborough (narrator)
Frozen Planet - The Complete Series (Blu-ray) [ BBC Earth Blu-ray / 3 Blu-ray Box Set - released 7/Mar/2012 ] This landmark, six-part series from the BBC's world renowned Natural History Unit brings to the screen the frozen wildernesses of the Arctic and Antarctic. Ambitious and epic in scale, it is the ultimate close encounter with the polar regions,... |
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OWAIN PARK / HENRY PURCELL / THOMAS TALLIS / WILLIAM BYRD & OTHERS
Lux aeterna The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park, with Samuel Mitchell (narrator) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] "As always with The Gesualdo Six, the thing that strikes one most forcibly on first listening is the ensemble's extraordinary vocal blend." Gramophone |
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JENNY McLEOD
McLeod: The Emperor and the Nightingale / Rock Concerto / etc Helen Medlyn (narrator) & Eugene Albulescu (piano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Uwe Grodd [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2011 ] New Zealand-born composer Jenny McLeod's wide musical background is here distilled into three works of highly enjoyable directness. The Emperor and the Nightingale is a colourful score which accompanies the narration of a Hans Christian Andersen... |
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JACQUELINE WILSON
Emerald Star Finty Williams (narrator) [ AudioGo / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2012 ] Finty Williams reads the final thrilling story in the 'Hetty Feather' trilogy. |
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JACQUELINE WILSON
The Worst Thing About My Sister Jacqueline Wilson (narrator) [ BBC Audio / 4 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/2012 ] Jacqueline Wilson reads her fabulous new novel about two very different sisters. |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Carnival Of Animals (with Ravel-Mother Goose Suite) Johnny Morris (narrator) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Ondrej Lenard (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jul/2008 ] The French composer Camille Saint-Saëns was prolific and lived a long time, although by the time of his death in 1921 music had changed beyond anything he could have conceived. He was a gifted pianist and, in common with many other well known French... |
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LUKAS FOSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Foss: Complete Vocal Chamber Music Judith Kellock (soprano) Lukas Foss (piano, narrator, conductor) / Cornell Contemporary Singers [ Koch International Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/1997 ] Foss was appointed professor of music at UCLA in 1953, replacing Arnold Schoenberg. While there he founded the Improvisation Chamber Ensemble, which made its Boston debut in 1962 for the Peabody Mason Concert series. He founded the Center of the... |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Candide Leonardo Capalbo (Candide), Jane Archibald (Cunegonde), Anne Sofie von Otter (Old Lady), Thomas Allen (Dr Pangloss/Narrator) LSO, Marin Alsop [ LSO / 2 CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] Marin Alsop conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a new recording of Leonard Bernstein's comic operetta based on Voltaire's satirical novella, in a performance that is full of dry wit, absurd humour, and stirring optimism. Marin Alsop leads... |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale Malcolm Simovic (narrator) / LSO Chamber Ensemble, Roman Simovic (director / violin) [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Oct/2018 ] "A vivid live recording of the perennial classic, let down a little by the narration. Though not without nuance, it's borderline hollered in places." BBC Music |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts Vol. 1 BLU-RAY New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor & narrator) [ C Major Unitel Blu-ray / 4 Blu-ray Box Set - released 16/Dec/2018 ] Young People's Concerts Vol.1 comprises 17 episodes of the legendary series, which remains unmatched until today. 'Leonard Bernstein did this better than anyone. He was brilliant - as a musician and as an ambassador for music' (Whoopie... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts Vol. 1 New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor & narrator) [ C Major Unitel DVD / 7 DVD Box Set - released 16/Dec/2018 ] Young People's Concerts Vol.1 comprises 17 episodes of the legendary series, which remains unmatched until today. 'Leonard Bernstein did this better than anyone. He was brilliant - as a musician and as an ambassador for music' (Whoopie... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts Vol. 2 BLU-RAY New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor & narrator) [ C Major Unitel Blu-ray / 4 Blu-ray Box Set - released 1/Jul/2019 ] 'There had never been a communicator about music with anywhere near Bernstein's brilliance, humour, energy, reach and importance' - New York Times. |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Still Falls The Rain Nicholas Phan (tenor), Myra Huang (piano), Jennifer Montone (horn), Sivan Magen (harp) & Alan Cumming (narrator) [ Avie / CD - released 24/Sep/2012 ] "The tenor turns in a first-class performance, and pianist Myra Huang lends the songs personality throughout. More please!" (BBC Music) |
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HERBERT ERNEST BATES
Bates: A Little What You Fancy (unabridged) Philip Franks (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2016 ] In the third sequel to The Darling Buds of May, Charley and Mariette decide to get baby Blenheim christened, leading to a wholesale christening of all seven of the Larkin children. Chaos abounds as the vicar Mr Candy is run ragged by the naughty... |
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JACK BODY
Poems of Love and War Robert Easting (narrator) David Greco (bar) Somara Ouk, Budi Putra (vocals) Martin Riseley (violin) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Young [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Mar/2014 ] "works of immense skill and real communication that in these fabulous performances will give him a worldwide audience. Even the splendid Meditations on Michelangelo for violin and strings really catches the ear. Don't pass on thjis." (John Button) |