Britten: Young Person's Guide; Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals; Prokofiev: Peter & The Wolf

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
October 30, 1991
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PROKOFIEV/BRITTEN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Pet, Jeremy, Toperczer, Ondrej, Nicholas, Marián, Lenárd, Lapšanský
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 30, 1991
    • UPC
      730099549929
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8550499
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Introduction et marche royale du lion (Introduction and Royal March of the Lion)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    2. II. Poules et Coqs (Hens and Cockerels)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    3. III. Hemiones (Wild Asses)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    4. IV. Tortues (Tortoises)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    5. V. L'Elephant (The Elephant)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    6. VI. Kangourous (Kangaroos)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    7. VII. Aquarium (Aquarium)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    8. VIII. Personnages a longues oreilles (People with Long Ears)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    9. IX. Le Coucou au fond des bois (The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    10. X. Voliere (Aviary)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    11. XI. Pianistes (Pianists)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    12. XII. Fossiles (Fossils)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    13. XIII. Le Cygne (The Swan)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    14. XIV. Finale

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    15. I. Peter in the Meadow

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    16. II. The Bird

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    17. III. The Duck

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    18. IV. The Cat

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    19. V. Grandfather

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    20. VI. Peter Does Not Listen

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    21. VII. Grandfather Takes Peter Home

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    22. VIII. The Wolf

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    23. IX. The Cat Climbs the Tree

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    24. X. The Duck Jumps Out the Pond

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    25. XI. The Wolf Swallows the Duck

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    26. XII. The Cat and the Bird in the Trees

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    27. XIII. The Wolf Prowls in Wait

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    28. XIV. Peter Takes a Rope and Climbs the Tree

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    29. XV. He Tells the Bird to Distract the Wolf

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    30. XVI. Peter Catches the Wolf with a Lasso

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    31. XVII. The Wolf Tries to Escape

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    32. XVIII. The Hunters Approach with Their Guns

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    33. XIX. Peter Suggests They All Take the Wolf to the Zoo

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    34. XX. They All March Together, Peter, Then the Hunters with the Wolf

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    35. XXI. And after Them Grandfather, Complaining, and the Cat

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeremy Nicholas

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    36. I. Theme

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    37. II. Variations (Woodwind)

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    38. III. Variations (Strings)

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    39. IV. Variations (Brass)

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    40. V. Variations (Percussion)

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd

    41. VI. Fugue

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd


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 composers, found employment and distinction as organist at one of the principal churches in Paris. The popular Carnival of the Animals, described as A Zoological Fantasy, was written in 1886, originally for two pianos and a small chamber orchestra, to celebrate that year's carnival. The composer forbade further performances of this occasional music, except for The Swan, which enjoyed immediate and irresistible popularity.

The Soviet 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. The boy Peter, represented by the strings, is playing in the meadow, forbidden territory. A bird, shown by the flute, sings in a tree: a duck, the oboe, swims in the pond, and a cat, the clarinet, comes onto the scene, sending the bird up to a higher branch. Peter's grandfather, the bassoon, warns the boy not to venture out, but meanwhile a wolf, the French horns, comes into the meadow, 
and adventures ensue with spoken narration.


Ten years later, in 1946, the English composer Benjamin Britten was asked to write music for an educational film introducing the instruments of the orchestra. For the purpose he chose a theme by the great 17th century English composer Henry Purcell and wrote a set of variations, each of which shows the characteristics of a particular instrument or group of instruments. The alternative title of the work, Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell, is an exact description. The other title, The Young Person's Guide to the 
Orchestra, makes fun of the titles much favored by writers of moral tales in the 19th century, providing "young persons" with advice on how to regulate every aspect of their lives. At the most exciting part of the concluding fugue, the brass instruments play again the original theme, leading to a grand conclusion.