Classics for Children - Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns, et al

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Album Summary

Performers

• Vladimir Ashkenazy (Piano)
• Cristina Ortiz (Piano)
• Varda Nishry (Piano)
• Pascal Rogé (Piano)

Conductors

• Ansermet, Ernest
• Bonynge, Richard
• Britten, Benjamin
• Dutoit, Charles
• Munchinger, Karl
• Sargent, Malcolm, Sir

Ensembles

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• London Sinfonietta
• London Symphony Orchestra
• National Philharmonic Orchestra
• Suisse Romande Orchestra

Composers

• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
• Louis-Claude Daquin (1694 - 1772)
• Sergey Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)
• Jacques Ibert (1890 - 1962)
• Paul Dukas (Composer) (1865 - 1935)
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
• François Couperin (1668 - 1733)
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908)
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764)
• Leopold Mozart (Composer) (1719 - 1787)
• Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
• Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)

Notes & Reviews:

Two and a half hours of well-known classical music, all composed specifically with children in mind. The "Peter and the Wolf" on this set is narrated by the late great English actor Sir Ralph Richardson.

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Works Details

Britten, Benjamin : The Young person's guide to the orchestra

• Conductor: Benjamin Britten
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 16 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1946

Schumann, Robert : Kinderszenen, Op. 15

• Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (Piano)
• Running Time: 16 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1838

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) : Carnival of the animals

• Performers: Cristina Ortiz (Piano); Pascal Rogé (Piano)
• Conductor: Charles Dutoit
• Ensemble: London Sinfonietta
• Running Time: 20 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1886

Rameau, Jean-Philippe : Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin :: no 18 in G minor, "The Hen"

• Performer: Varda Nishry (Piano)
• Running Time: 4 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1727

Daquin, Louis-Claude : Premier livre de pièces

• Performer: Varda Nishry (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: circa 1735

François Couperin (1668 - 1733) : Pièces de clavecin, Book 2 :: The fly

• Performer: Varda Nishry (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1716-1717

Mozart, Leopold : Toy Symphony (Cassation), for toys, 2 oboes, 2 horns & strings in G major (formerly K. 63)

• Conductor: Karl Munchinger
• Running Time: 9 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: by 1759

Prokofiev, Sergei : Peter and the Wolf

• Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 26 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1936

Debussy, Claude : Children's Corner

• Performer: Pascal Rogé (Piano)
• Running Time: 16 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1906-1908

Bizet, Georges : Petite Suite, pieces (5) for orchestra from Jeux d'enfants

• Conductor: Ernest Ansermet
• Ensemble: Suisse Romande Orchestra
• Running Time: 7 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1871

Ibert, Jacques : The Little White Donkey, for piano (no 2 from "Histories")

• Performer: Varda Nishry (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1922

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai : Tale of Tsar Saltan :: The Flight of the

• Conductor: Ernest Ansermet
• Ensemble: Suisse Romande Orchestra
• Running Time: 1 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1900-1901

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a :: Waltz of the Snowflakes

• Conductor: Richard Bonynge
• Ensemble: National Philharmonic Orchestra
• Running Time: 6 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Ballet
• Written: 1892

Dukas, Paul : L'apprenti sorcier

• Conductor: Ernest Ansermet
• Ensemble: Suisse Romande Orchestra
• Running Time: 10 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1897