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Summary: Brings me back to childhood!
Comment: I recently bought this cd for my husband, we talked about getting this to share with our daughter. There were so many variations of the cd. I looked at the reviews and picked this one. This is the same recording that we both had listened to as children. We love it!!!
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Summary: Not all that
Comment: I love Boris Karloff, the voice is delicious, but his reading is rather uninspired, unimaginative and cautious-sounding, but not nearly so pedestrian as the conducting of Mario Rossi, who has at his disposal the highly capable Vienna State Opera orchestra (read, Vienna Philharmonic) who could play the pants off this piece even if left to their own devices, and not held back by the willful torpor of their baton-waiver. But alas, the performance simply drags along tediously, if such a thing is possible with this most delightful of musical stories. The Kije is merely a serviceable performance, too, of something that should effervesce. I regret not being more positive; the voice of Karloff should have been coupled with a more vital conductor. The recorded sound (from 1957) as typical of Seymour Solomon's audiophile work for Vanguard and other labels is superlative analog.
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Summary: Wonderful for kids and adults
Comment: Our daughters grew up with this recording back in the 1970's -- I think we went through 3 vinyl copies. And now it's our granddaughters' favorite CD. The narration by Boris Karloff is fantastic, giving the kids a wonderful understanding of the music. Buy it.
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Summary: Prokofiev would be proud
Comment: It seems like performances of Peter and the Wolf number in the thousands but this is the best by far. I enjoyed this for years on an LP but it got lost in a move. Great to see it back.
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Summary: a childs classic
Comment: My siblings and I recall pretending to be Peter or one of the other characters as we played the original record until well scratched beyond endurance for our mother. I found a copy while visiting the Russian Museum in Minnesota and my 5 yr old grandson spent his days doing the same character enactments. This CD is truly a treasure for developing music appreciation in our young children.
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