Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor
Alexander Armstrong narrator

Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals
Rawsthorne Practical Cats
 
Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (1936) is a ‘symphonic fairy tale for children’ by Sergei Prokofiev. The Carnival of the Animals is a humorous musical suite of fourteen movements by Camille Saint-Saëns. In 1949, Ogden Nash wrote a set of humorous verses to accompany each movement for a Columbia Masterworks recording conducted by Andre Kostelanetz. They were recited on the original album by Noël Coward, dubbed over or spliced in between sections of the previously recorded music.