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Noel Coward - Carnival of the Animals

Carnival of the Animals
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Release Date:01/01/1950
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    Carnival of the Animals

    By Peter  Oct 25, 2005

    Pros: Great music, great lyrics

    Cons: I can't find a copy of it

    This recording was probably my first exposure to 'classical' music. Sainte Saens's use of the animals to give character to the instruments of the orchestra was brilliant, and the poems by the incomparable Noel Coward only improved it. Now... in my 50s I can still recite the poems of all the animals (Elephants are useful friends, equipped with handles at both ends....). If you have young children you want to introduce to good music in a fun way that you'll enjoy also, be sure to get this one, and also Peter and the Wolf. Read more Less

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  • All Music Guide

    This is a version of French composer Camille SaintSaëns' wonderful suite "Le Carnaval des Animaux," played by Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra. The work, written in 1886, but not published until a year after SaintSaëns' 1921 death, has had a set of silly twoline poems added to it by Ogden Nash that characteristically fracture the language for this English version, Carnival of the Animals, and they are even funnier coming out of the mouth of Noël Coward in an upperclass British accent. "If you think the elephant preposterous," he intones, "You've probably never seen a rhinosterous." And so on. Classical music fans of the suite may frown, but children will love it.

    - William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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Noël Coward

Noel Coward was among the most innovative and influential figures to emerge from the theatrical world during the 20th century; a playwright, director and actor as well as a songwriter, filmmaker and novelist, his witty, urbane stage productions forever altered the perceptions long inherent in theatre dialogue by shifting away from declamatory tones to a more natural, co... Read more
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