Boris Karloff is so enchanting. He was a brilliant actor and blessed with a beautiful, melodious voice that had tremendous expressive range, and his story-telling talent had few rivals.
I just bought this CD for a one year old nephew, it's the same version I grew up with and I've already been humming Peter's tune to him for the last several weeks. Today is his birthday and we will listen to it together.
I'm am thrilled to now be able to play this beautiful musical story for my 5 month old grandsons- I listened to the vinyl recording almost daily during my childhood. No other narrator could come close to Karloff's brilliance- thank you so much for sharing!
I am really big about symphonic Orchestras I am 51 years of Age I remember hearing this record in 1974 I had a teacher that liked playing this record everyday in grade 1 it was so much fun listening to this music is where I learnt my love of orchestral sounds in General and now I am revisiting this stuff because my life is my own now and all the lights have come back on with my love of music and this record was playing around in my head for some strange reason I think I tripped over a memory today at a piano lesson and I had to play this and now I have had lots of fun listening to this and now I need a copy of this to play on a record player now I know which copy I was looking for thank you!
fond memory listening to this on the carpet with a portable record player! never realized till now, all these years later, that voice was Boris Karloff's! What a happy realization!
Thank you, I grew up listening to this tune but haven't heard it in over 30 years. Now I've just had my 7 (and a half) year old son sitting on my lap as we listened to it together and enjoyed. Now he wants me to make a toy set of Peter and the Wolf....
In the 50's, me, my sister, and brother always begged my dad to play Peter and the Wolf on the record player. We loved it! We didn't have a book with pictures but we always sat deeply engrossed by the story, the narrator's voice, and the sound of the characters being played by the orchestra's instruments. It was a bit like Disney's Fantasia without a screen. I think it was a good thing because we each had to use our imagination to create the scene and characters... something kids don't get to do these days.
I'm reading all the sweet comments about how many special memories are linked to this piece and I feel grateful that I can make my first experience listening to it so much richer.
Ahh the emotive power of music. I must have listened to this a thousand times as a kid. It was kind of scary but the love of music is instilled into a child forever with this piece and Boris Karloff's narration is pure genius!!
As long back as I can remember, we had this album in my parents' record collection. I don't know when they got it, but I know my dad has always loved it. A few years back I got it for him on CD, and I know he's listened to it a few times. This was my introduction to classical music. Superb. Thanks for posting this.
I posted this as one of my "10 Albums that influenced my taste in music". My dear mother, determined to expose her children and primary school students to classical music bought this album. So although classical music isn't my favourite music, it has been a leitmotiv through my life.
Me too, Jeanette. As a 74 year old boy, I'm listening again! My mother had me listen to this, Scheherazade, Carmen, and other excellent pieces of music. My folks filled the air with Gershwin and classical composers and big band music. What a feast, what wonderful stuff. It made some of us continue with music ever since. The tones in this -- the sound of the duck, the hunters, the wolf--magical.
My parents played this for me when I was very young and it still terrifies to me to this day. The strange this is that I loved listening to it because of the emotional rollercoaster it took me through. I am 21 years old now and it still gives me goosebumps.
I remember lying on the rug as a kid, in front of the old console stereo, listening to this in rapt attention. Thanks for the post! Boris was so great!
So great. Boris K did many more works than known about. Love it. My early appreciation/knowledge for musical instruments as well came from this recording.
my first music memory...my mom played me this vinyl in order to teach me the instruments of the orchestra and introduce me to classical music...with Greek narration, however, because I am Greek. Thank you for the memory!
I love this recording! Pops and all. I had this album as a child. Brings back great memories of lying on the living room floor by the speakers imagining all the characters.
Thanks so much for posting this, David! I listened to this exact recording as a child in the late 1960s and am now listening here with my own son, who is in a fine arts high school as a musician (clarinet, voice, flute, banjo, and a bit of trumpet) and loves it, too. Wow, so grateful to you.
davidhertzberg I'm 59 years old and was first intrduced to this marvellous musical story when I was 4 and fell in love with it ever since. Thx for posting it!
As a child I would listen to this over and over and over again. This may be what led to my love of Russian classical music, literature and language. Thanks for the post.
This is also my earliest musical memory..... this record terrified me as a child, but I would play it repeatedly as some strange tortuous ritual until my parents got tired of hearing me wail and cry....that moment when peter sees the wolf.....chilling.
This used to kind of scare me as a kid but I still used to put it on. We had no distractions back 50 years ago and the music really took me somewhere along with that authoritative narration from Boris Karloff.
It was great hearing this again. I have been searching for this version in record stores and antique malls for almost 40 years. I have lots of copies but none of them were the version I remember as a child. Then by accident I saw yours on UA-cam. Now I have a title to search so I can purchase a copy of the record for myself. Thank you!
I am 45 years old now and in the late 70's and early 80's my school would show us this movie on a Real to Reel projector in the cafeteria. I was so tuned in on it that everything else around me just disappeared.
My two all time favorites: Peter and the Wolf and Boris Karloff! I was in preschool or kindergarten when I first heard this and was an instant classical music fan. Ten years later I would be an obsessed Boris Karloff fan. Thank you for posting this.
This post makes me SO happy. I am a pre-k teacher and this is music in our schools month, I wanted to play peter and the wolf for them at nap time. I think I have found the one I want to play!!!! WIN!! Thank you for the video and thank you SultrySelket for your memories, they confirmed my thoughts on the awesomeness of playing this for them.
davidhertzberg Thx for posting such a wonderful memento of my childhood. I'm 59 and first listened to this recording when I was 4: l fell in love with this musical masterpiece ever since.
I used to listen to this when I was going to sleep. I haven't heard it in over 20 years, yet it's so familiar that it feels like I heard it less than a month ago.
I was in my music theory class and my professor Doc brought this up in class. I forgot about this!! I remember all this music from when I was a kid! Thank you Doc!
You've made my day! I've been looking for a copy of this for ages. It takes me right back to being five or six years old and listening with a delicious shiver of horror to that final line: the pregnant pause and the way Boris strings out the word "alive" is exactly as I remember it. Other versions I've heard aren't a patch on this one. Thanks for posting it!
A good many people mainly recall Boris Karloff as "Frankenstein," but in truth, Mr. Karloff was so much more. He was indeed a very refined and classy man who loved and supported the arts. I'm sure his participation in this project gave him great satisfaction.
Could be false information, but I've heard he personally funded the production of this recording so that children could have easy access to classical music.
It must that very recording, I got, when I was five (I´m 64). I was so frightened by that wolf. My parents translated for me - and Karloff probably bears part of the responsibility for my love of the english language. :-)
Classic!One of my Favorites from childhood,brings back memories,i was looking for this one by Prokoviev.excellent thank you for sharing-i have been listening to this everyday!
Fantastic hearing this again. My Great Aunt played it to us (on her horn Gramaphone - 78rpm) when we were little, and the idea was to get to sleep before the Wolf came!!. Good to hear it & thanks for posting.
Thanks so much for posting. For me, this is the only version I can take seriously. It's perfection. Didn't realise this was on youtube, was about to ask a friend if he could convert my LP of it to mp3.
Stumbled across this in 2021. I'm filled with nostalgia and emotion. I haven't heard this since the late '60's. It was scary but I listened over and over.
Listened to this recorded version as a child - on a pre-recorded open reel 1/4 track magnetic tape. Still have a couple of working Sony reel-to-reel tape recorders, but haven't used either of them in several years.
Having been spoiled by a wonderful German version Boehm/Boehm/Wiener Philharmoniker ... this is by far my most favorite English rendition ;o) Very beautiful ~ thank you!
I grew up listening to so many versions of this story but now, being 31, suddenly I feel like I've discovered the one that makes my eyes water at the "oboe" scene! Thank you so much for posting this!!!
This is a Christmas tradition that STILL brings a tear to my eyes because of all the fond memories I have of growing up. We listen to this every year while prepping for the big day... Great holiday children and adult story to play :O)
Oh my goodness! Thank you for posting this…I heard it today on a classical station and it brought back SO many memories from my preschool years! I checked out this record from the children’s library section every other trip to the library! 📚 🎶 ❤
As a child, I used to ask my dad to play this record for me all the time. Had no idea I was listening to Frankenstein's monster narrating the whole thing!
Boris Karloff did a great job narrating "Peter And The Wolf",almost as good as Sterling Holloway,did in the Disney version. It's great that you uploaded this version. "Peter And The Wolf" has always been one of my favorites since I was a boy,and even today i still enjoy listening to it.
Karloff is amazing. But the record I had as a child was narrated by Jose Ferrer; also a beautiful reading. Great voices! David Bowie has done a wonderful recording also.
This was the very recording I first heard of Peter and the Wolf in the 1940s or 50s on an old wind up gramophone on 78rpm discs! Boris Karloff is still my favourite narrator! Thanks for posting! 🌺😝🌹🎈🐺🦆🕊🍀🦋🌹💕🌺😀🎈💐👍
I just saw my friends granddaughter and her dance troupe give a performance of this a couple of weeks ago, I loved every second of it. I remember this from my childhood.
Outstanding rendition, and much earlier than most you hear. This version is very similar to another similarly excellent recording with Sir Ralph Richardson in the narrator's role. Both of these pros clearly evoke the emotional content as the story unfolds, and the dialogue is essentially the same .Thank you for making this one available!
I do time to time like listening to this audio soundtrack, reminds me when I was little when I would used to watch the movie tape and also listen to the cd soundtrack of the story that my grandmother gave me back years ago. Thing I like listening to this now still to this day is I can imagine in my mind how the characters look and what they would actually be doing in the story. I like to use my imagination, also the music sounds good, nice melody and rhythm.
i remember listening to this on vinyl when i was a kid, 8,9 yrs old, on sat or sun morn when i would get up early to rearrange my bedroom as the seasons changed and i wanted to be near the window in the Spring and Summer and i would do "Spring cleaning" . It may have been my introduction to classical music along with Fantasia and The Sorceror's apprentice.
Ah i wish i had the book with me while listening to this. nothing quite comes so close to desensitizing perfection! all i need after stressful day is to pop this on and engulf myself in nostalgic memories! may i never forget about it!
This is wonderful...thank you. It immediately transported me straight back the mountains where I grew up listening to this on my Bakelite portable record player in the 60's, while lying under the coffee trees. Peter and the wolf and this amazing version of The Little Mermaid (ua-cam.com/video/BSvauHBcU5s/v-deo.html) were the first two records I was gifted via an aunt from NY and introduced me to a love of music and books. Cheers.
such good childhood memories. i used to listen to this on tape in my parents room as a little girl. that, or course, was when they used to still make tapes! hard to think that was less than 10 years ago...
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Boris Karloff is so enchanting. He was a brilliant actor and blessed with a beautiful, melodious voice that had tremendous expressive range, and his story-telling talent had few rivals.
I grew up in the 60s and listened to this more times than I can count. My imagination just loved this. Thanks so much for posting.
Born in 68, THIS was life changing musically for my very young mind....
Thank you.
5/2/2021...70 years old...worn this out as a child...what a delight to find it here!
Boris Karloff's voice adds an extra musical dimension to this wonderful piece. Thanks for posting!
I will be 62 in January. I have been listening to this since I was 3 years old. Thank you for posting.
same here
Me too same ages on both ends! Interesting!
I just bought this CD for a one year old nephew, it's the same version I grew up with and I've already been humming Peter's tune to him for the last several weeks. Today is his birthday and we will listen to it together.
Paula Pacente : I'm 65. Same here. Hi all you 50's kids!
I'm am thrilled to now be able to play this beautiful musical story for my 5 month old grandsons- I listened to the vinyl recording almost daily during my childhood. No other narrator could come close to Karloff's brilliance- thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you for this. Flooded with memories. And now I realize where I get my undying love for Prokofiev!
I am looking for this as a gift for my father, as we are related to Boris Karloff thru my father's side. Thanks so much for posting this!
One of the many things that inspires me to keep playing my clarinet.
I am really big about symphonic Orchestras I am 51 years of Age I remember hearing this record in 1974 I had a teacher that liked playing this record everyday in grade 1 it was so much fun listening to this music is where I learnt my love of orchestral sounds in General and now I am revisiting this stuff because my life is my own now and all the lights have come back on with my love of music and this record was playing around in my head for some strange reason I think I tripped over a memory today at a piano lesson and I had to play this and now I have had lots of fun listening to this and now I need a copy of this to play on a record player now I know which copy I was looking for thank you!
fond memory listening to this on the carpet with a portable record player! never realized till now, all these years later, that voice was Boris Karloff's! What a happy realization!
Me either!! My sister & I wore this record out as children in the 60's.
He made it so more terrifying. But loved it listening to this as a 4 year old hiding behind the sofa when the wolf killed the poor duck 😭
Just Fabulous to refresh my ears on this from when I was a child! One of my Favs ! - THANKS!
Thank you, I grew up listening to this tune but haven't heard it in over 30 years. Now I've just had my 7 (and a half) year old son sitting on my lap as we listened to it together and enjoyed. Now he wants me to make a toy set of Peter and the Wolf....
In the 50's, me, my sister, and brother always begged my dad to play Peter and the Wolf on the record player. We loved it! We didn't have a book with pictures but we always sat deeply engrossed by the story, the narrator's voice, and the sound of the characters being played by the orchestra's instruments. It was a bit like Disney's Fantasia without a screen. I think it was a good thing because we each had to use our imagination to create the scene and characters... something kids don't get to do these days.
I feel like an outcast. I'm probably the youngest one in the comments
I'm reading all the sweet comments about how many special memories are linked to this piece and I feel grateful that I can make my first experience listening to it so much richer.
Ahh the emotive power of music. I must have listened to this a thousand times as a kid. It was kind of scary but the love of music is instilled into a child forever with this piece and Boris Karloff's narration is pure genius!!
As long back as I can remember, we had this album in my parents' record collection. I don't know when they got it, but I know my dad has always loved it. A few years back I got it for him on CD, and I know he's listened to it a few times. This was my introduction to classical music. Superb. Thanks for posting this.
I posted this as one of my "10 Albums that influenced my taste in music". My dear mother, determined to expose her children and primary school students to classical music bought this album. So although classical music isn't my favourite music, it has been a leitmotiv through my life.
Me too, Jeanette. As a 74 year old boy, I'm listening again! My mother had me listen to this, Scheherazade, Carmen, and other excellent pieces of music. My folks filled the air with Gershwin and classical composers and big band music. What a feast, what wonderful stuff. It made some of us continue with music ever since. The tones in this -- the sound of the duck, the hunters, the wolf--magical.
I can remember as a very young kid being scared to death when "the Wolf" part kicks in. Thank you for this posting.
Screaming with fear ...yet I loved it but was scared to go back to that place to listen again as a child ...but here I am being brave 😀
My parents played this for me when I was very young and it still terrifies to me to this day. The strange this is that I loved listening to it because of the emotional rollercoaster it took me through. I am 21 years old now and it still gives me goosebumps.
It's funny that so many of us from around the world have the same happy memories of this from childhood. I'm 52 from the US.
I remember lying on the rug as a kid, in front of the old console stereo, listening to this in rapt attention. Thanks for the post! Boris was so great!
Boris Karloff was a very good choice for narrating Peter and the Wolf !!! Right kind of voice :)
So great. Boris K did many more works than known about. Love it. My early appreciation/knowledge for musical instruments as well came from this recording.
my first music memory...my mom played me this vinyl in order to teach me the instruments of the orchestra and introduce me to classical music...with Greek narration, however, because I am Greek. Thank you for the memory!
Thanks for writing, my pleasure. david
+Aurelia's Swing SAME! This holds up so well
SAME HERE! eXCEPT ALL IN gERMAN... mUSIC IS eSPERANTO.
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@@davidhertzberg which was the first-ever PETER AND THE WOLF recording?
Used to LOVE Prokofiev,s music as a child - still do especially this one - Also Boris,s voice superb!
Yes! This is the LP I had as a child. Still have, actually. Been waiting for this to appear on youtube for a looong time... Thanks David Hertzberg!
I love this recording! Pops and all. I had this album as a child. Brings back great memories of lying on the living room floor by the speakers imagining all the characters.
I like the pops n crackles too ...it's classic when you here it
Thanks so much for posting this, David! I listened to this exact recording as a child in the late 1960s and am now listening here with my own son, who is in a fine arts high school as a musician (clarinet, voice, flute, banjo, and a bit of trumpet) and loves it, too. Wow, so grateful to you.
you made my day!!! My dad bought us this record in the 60s to introduce us to classical music. so many memories.... thank you!!
it was a 45 and it came with a book. In spanish... so long ago!!
Jorge Alvarez - Toad Hall Studios Thanks for writing, its great to hear stories like yours. regards
davidhertzberg
I'm 59 years old and was first intrduced to this marvellous musical story when I was 4 and fell in love with it ever since. Thx for posting it!
I am glad to find this recording, probably the first record I remember as a child in the 1950s!
As a child I would listen to this over and over and over again. This may be what led to my love of Russian classical music, literature and language. Thanks for the post.
This is also my earliest musical memory..... this record terrified me as a child, but I would play it repeatedly as some strange tortuous ritual until my parents got tired of hearing me wail and cry....that moment when peter sees the wolf.....chilling.
Wow, same here.
I thought I was the only one who was terrified of this music
Me too 😊
@@dauntlessleodragon what terrified me was not the musical tale but Walt Disney's cartoon: it prevented me to listen to the recording FOR YEARS!!
Me too
This used to kind of scare me as a kid but I still used to put it on. We had no distractions back 50 years ago and the music really took me somewhere along with that authoritative narration from Boris Karloff.
Thanks for loading it, "Peter and the Wolf" is one of my earliest musical memories! And still love it, recently got a modern recording. Regards
It was great hearing this again. I have been searching for this version in record stores and antique malls for almost 40 years. I have lots of copies but none of them were the version I remember as a child. Then by accident I saw yours on UA-cam. Now I have a title to search so I can purchase a copy of the record for myself. Thank you!
Memories of a 1958 classroom, knitting a pot holder whilst listening to this recording. I can even smell chalk dust ☺️
Carol, it was magical, wasn't it? What tones each of the "creatures" had. The duck...I am 74 and listening to this again tonight. Wonderul.
After 50 years still my fav.Brings back childhood memories
I am 45 years old now and in the late 70's and early 80's my school would show us this movie on a Real to Reel projector in the cafeteria. I was so tuned in on it that everything else around me just disappeared.
My two all time favorites: Peter and the Wolf and Boris Karloff! I was in preschool or kindergarten when I first heard this and was an instant classical music fan. Ten years later I would be an obsessed Boris Karloff fan. Thank you for posting this.
A pleasure! david
This post makes me SO happy. I am a pre-k teacher and this is music in our schools month, I wanted to play peter and the wolf for them at nap time. I think I have found the one I want to play!!!! WIN!! Thank you for the video and thank you SultrySelket for your memories, they confirmed my thoughts on the awesomeness of playing this for them.
Elizabeth Hines Wonderful, thanks so much for taking the time to write! david
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Thx for posting such a wonderful memento of my childhood. I'm 59 and first listened to this recording when I was 4: l fell in love with this musical masterpiece ever since.
Excellent recording...ahhhh the memories!
I used to listen to this when I was going to sleep. I haven't heard it in over 20 years, yet it's so familiar that it feels like I heard it less than a month ago.
I love Karloff's voice!
I remember listening to this as a kid...reminds me of Christmas....i love how each instrument represents a character
I was in my music theory class and my professor Doc brought this up in class. I forgot about this!! I remember all this music from when I was a kid! Thank you Doc!
thank you for this, i'm listening with my 6 and 2 yr. old Grands, they're enjoying it as much as I did in my childhood!
Superb adventure for kids! Thank you for posting!
Thank you for posting this. I have such fond memories of this from my childhood and now I can let my children experience this as well.
You've made my day! I've been looking for a copy of this for ages. It takes me right back to being five or six years old and listening with a delicious shiver of horror to that final line: the pregnant pause and the way Boris strings out the word "alive" is exactly as I remember it. Other versions I've heard aren't a patch on this one. Thanks for posting it!
Wonderful! Thanks for writing, david
absolutely the best. boris karloff's narration was inspired.
Thank you so much! I haven't heard this in probably 50 yrs!
I wish many children would see this live perfornce at least once in their lives
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A masterpiece for the ages.! TY davidhertzberg for posting this treasure.
A favorite from 70 years ago, conjures up memories of listening to the record on my grandmother’s victrola
Thanks KLUV radio; for sharing this. I remember playing this record when I was a little boy way back in the early mid 1960's.......
I need this today so much.
Thank you, thank you David Hertzberg.
A good many people mainly recall Boris Karloff as "Frankenstein," but in truth, Mr. Karloff was so much more. He was indeed a very refined and classy man who loved and supported the arts. I'm sure his participation in this project gave him great satisfaction.
Could be false information, but I've heard he personally funded the production of this recording so that children could have easy access to classical music.
It must that very recording, I got, when I was five (I´m 64). I was so frightened by that wolf. My parents translated for me - and Karloff probably bears part of the responsibility for my love of the english language. :-)
Wonderful! I used to listen to this lp all the time as a child!
Classic!One of my Favorites from childhood,brings back memories,i was looking for this one by Prokoviev.excellent thank you for sharing-i have been listening to this everyday!
Fantastic hearing this again. My Great Aunt played it to us (on her horn Gramaphone - 78rpm) when we were little, and the idea was to get to sleep before the Wolf came!!. Good to hear it & thanks for posting.
Thanks so much for posting. For me, this is the only version I can take seriously. It's perfection.
Didn't realise this was on youtube, was about to ask a friend if he could convert my LP of it to mp3.
Solche Musik sollte man mehr haben, ist einfach immer sehr schön diese ART!!! ;)
Stumbled across this in 2021. I'm filled with nostalgia and emotion. I haven't heard this since the late '60's. It was scary but I listened over and over.
I remember listening to this record when I a child in the 80s brings back memories of a time now long passed.
Listened to this recorded version as a child - on a pre-recorded open reel 1/4 track magnetic tape.
Still have a couple of working Sony reel-to-reel tape recorders, but haven't used either of them in several years.
The great genius of Prokofiev could make this lovely classic.
Having been spoiled by a wonderful German version Boehm/Boehm/Wiener Philharmoniker ... this is by far my most favorite English rendition ;o)
Very beautiful ~ thank you!
I grew up listening to so many versions of this story but now, being 31, suddenly I feel like I've discovered the one that makes my eyes water at the "oboe" scene! Thank you so much for posting this!!!
That sound of vinyl....love it!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
I also remember this from childhood...what a great work!
This is a Christmas tradition that STILL brings a tear to my eyes because of all the fond memories I have of growing up. We listen to this every year while prepping for the big day... Great holiday children and adult story to play :O)
makes me miss my grampa. But glad to hear this again
Sehr erfreuliche Aufführung nicht nur für Kinder, sondern auch für Erwachsene. Klasse!
Love this!! thank you for sharing this Gem!!
Oh my goodness! Thank you for posting this…I heard it today on a classical station and it brought back SO many memories from my preschool years! I checked out this record from the children’s library section every other trip to the library! 📚 🎶 ❤
As a child, I used to ask my dad to play this record for me all the time. Had no idea I was listening to Frankenstein's monster narrating the whole thing!
I love this so much! Thank you for uploading. Greetings from Mexico
I used to listen to this with complete reverence as a kid. Now I'm playing it for my three year old.
nice to hear 'The Grinch' reading 'Peter and the Wolf'
As soon as I heard the guy start talking I knew I was going to have a fun time listening to this.
Mr Karloff had a signature voice!
oh wow !! i have never heard this version, that is awsome. thank you so much for posting this rareity. xx
I played this on my Bluetooth/vinyl player and it sounds just like I have the record!!!
Boris Karloff did a great job narrating "Peter And The Wolf",almost as good as Sterling Holloway,did in the Disney version. It's great that you uploaded this version. "Peter And The Wolf" has always been one of my favorites since I was a boy,and even today i still enjoy listening to it.
You have brought my childhood back.
Karloff is amazing. But the record I had as a child was narrated by Jose Ferrer; also a beautiful reading. Great voices! David Bowie has done a wonderful recording also.
This was the very recording I first heard of Peter and the Wolf in the 1940s or 50s on an old wind up gramophone on 78rpm discs! Boris Karloff is still my favourite narrator! Thanks for posting! 🌺😝🌹🎈🐺🦆🕊🍀🦋🌹💕🌺😀🎈💐👍
I just saw my friends granddaughter and her dance troupe give a performance of this a couple of weeks ago, I loved every second of it. I remember this from my childhood.
Outstanding rendition, and much earlier than most you hear. This version is very similar to another similarly excellent recording with Sir Ralph Richardson in the narrator's role. Both of these pros clearly evoke the emotional content as the story unfolds, and the dialogue is essentially the same
.Thank you for making this one available!
Thanks for this lovely piece of my childhood !!
I do time to time like listening to this audio soundtrack, reminds me when I was little when I would used to watch the movie tape and also listen to the cd soundtrack of the story that my grandmother gave me back years ago. Thing I like listening to this now still to this day is I can imagine in my mind how the characters look and what they would actually be doing in the story. I like to use my imagination, also the music sounds good, nice melody and rhythm.
It's been a long time hearing this story...with music.
i remember listening to this on vinyl when i was a kid, 8,9 yrs old, on sat or sun morn when i would get up early to rearrange my bedroom as the seasons changed and i wanted to be near the window in the Spring and Summer and i would do "Spring cleaning" . It may have been my introduction to classical music along with Fantasia and The Sorceror's apprentice.
Ah i wish i had the book with me while listening to this. nothing quite comes so close to desensitizing perfection!
all i need after stressful day is to pop this on and engulf myself in nostalgic memories!
may i never forget about it!
Thank you a lot from bilingual russian/english speaking family for this.
Hah - Just today remembered this as my first musical memory from the mid-50s. Thanks
I have nine children and they were all brought up on Peter and the Wolf and all became classical music enthusiasts!
This is wonderful...thank you. It immediately transported me straight back the mountains where I grew up listening to this on my Bakelite portable record player in the 60's, while lying under the coffee trees. Peter and the wolf and this amazing version of The Little Mermaid (ua-cam.com/video/BSvauHBcU5s/v-deo.html) were the first two records I was gifted via an aunt from NY and introduced me to a love of music and books.
Cheers.
such good childhood memories. i used to listen to this on tape in my parents room as a little girl. that, or course, was when they used to still make tapes! hard to think that was less than 10 years ago...