[OK, Peter and the Wolf isn't purely orchestral, but it's not an opera, either, so here I am.]
I have grandchildren who are just the right age for Peter. Few online listings let me sample a recording, but the ones I can access all seem to have been recorded in a large concert hall, and the narrator's voice is booming in from somewhere in the middle of the place. I wonder if the producers understand that these recordings should work for children. I'd prefer the orchestra in a smaller, "deader" hall, and the narrator possibly even recorded separately in a space with very little echo, so that he or she seems to be sitting in the room with me. I could swear recordings of the kind I want were available when I was young, because I doubt I would have liked these Grand Central Station productions. Can anyone steer me to one that fits my description?
[I loved the work as a kid, and I've been a Prokofiev fan ever since!]
I have grandchildren who are just the right age for Peter. Few online listings let me sample a recording, but the ones I can access all seem to have been recorded in a large concert hall, and the narrator's voice is booming in from somewhere in the middle of the place. I wonder if the producers understand that these recordings should work for children. I'd prefer the orchestra in a smaller, "deader" hall, and the narrator possibly even recorded separately in a space with very little echo, so that he or she seems to be sitting in the room with me. I could swear recordings of the kind I want were available when I was young, because I doubt I would have liked these Grand Central Station productions. Can anyone steer me to one that fits my description?
[I loved the work as a kid, and I've been a Prokofiev fan ever since!]
