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David Bowie narrates Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf.


Op deze CD vertelt Bowie het verhaal van Peter en de wolf, met de muziek van Sergei Prokofiev.

Tracks:
01 Introduction
02 The Story Begins
03 The Bird
04 The Duck, Dialogue With The Bird, Attack Of The Cat
05 Grandfather
06 The Wolf
07 The Duck Is Caught
08 The Wolf Stalks The Bird And The Cat
09 Peter Prepares To Catch The Wolf
10 The Bird Diverts The Wolf
11 Peter Catches The Wolf
12 The Hunters Arrive
13 The Procession To The Zoo


In Peter and The Wolf Peter goes out into the meadow, even though his grandfather has warned him there is a dangerous wolf out there. Seeing his friends the bird and the duck, he alerts them to the presence of the cat. Peter's grandfather gets him back into his own yard just as the wolf comes out of the forest. Peter watches. The wolf tries to capture the bird and does capture the duck, swallowing her in one gulp. However, Peter, with the help of the bird, captures the wolf by climbing a tree near the gate, dropping a lasso around the animal's tail and drawing it tight. Just then some hunters come along; Peter pleads with them not to shoot - he wants to give the wolf to the zoo. The hunters agree, and they, Peter, his grandfather and all the animals march off in triumph - the duck quacking away inside the wolf.
While telling this tale - which he wrote himself - Prokofiev also gave his youthful listeners a superb lesson in both instrumentation and the use of the leitmotiv. He assigned an orchestra instrument to each character: the bird is a flute; the duck is an aboe; the cat is a clarinet in the low register; the grandfather is a bassoon; the wolf is three French horns; Peter is the string quartet, and the hunters are drums. Each character also has a special little melody of its own - a leitmotiv - and these appear throughout the story, whenever their characters appear. It's all easy and fun to follow. The music is extraordinarily suggestive and descriptive - and completely captivating. And then there is also the narration.