Howard Blake: The Snowman & Prokofiev: Peter & The Wolf

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Release Date: 30th Nov 2018
Catalogue No: RCD1035
Label: Rubicon
Length: 51 minutes

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Blake, H: The Snowman for String Quartet and Narrator, Op. 612

Work length27:04

$3.80

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Ken Dodd, James Devlin (soloist)
Liverpool String Quartet

I. The Story of the Snowman

Track length15:55

$1.60

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II. Walking in the Air

Track length3:43

$1.00

$1.30

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III. The Story continued

Track length7:26

$1.20

$1.95

$2.40

Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67

Work length24:42

$13.00

$16.90

$20.80

Ken Dodd
Liverpool String Quartet

I. Introduction (Arr. for String Quartet)

Track length2:38

$1.00

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II. Thye Story begins (Arr. for String Quartet)

Track length1:05

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III. The Bird (Arr. for String Quartet)

Track length1:32

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IV. The Duck (Arr. for String Quartet)

Track length4:23

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V. Grandfather (Arr. for String Quartet)

Track length2:15

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VI. The Wolf (Arr. for String Quartet)

Track length1:00

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VIII. The Duck escapes (Arr. for String Quartet)

Track length0:51

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IX. The Wolf stalks the Bird and the Cat (Arr. for String Quartet)

Track length1:51

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X. Peter prepares to catch the Wolf (Arr. for String Quartet)

Track length1:10

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XI. The Bird diverts the Wolf (Arr. for String Quartet)

Track length1:37

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XII. Peter catches the Wolf (Arr. for String Quartet)

Track length1:04

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XIII. The Hunters arrive (Arr. for String Quartet)

Track length0:56

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XIV. The Procession to the Zoo (Arr. for String Quartet)

Track length4:20

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Recording the narrations for Peter & the Wolf and The Snowman was the last project Sir Ken Dodd undertook. One of the UK’s most famous and best loved comedians and entertainers, he passed away aged 90 in March 2018. This famous son of Liverpool was a keen supporter of the Whitechapel Centre, the Liverpool based charity that is the leading homeless and housing charity in the Liverpool region, working with people who are sleeping rough, living in hostels or struggling to manage their accommodation. Rubicon will support the work of the Whitechapel Centre by contributing a percentage of the royalties from sales of this album to the charity that Sir Ken supported.

Howard Blake’s music to The Snowman adapted as a 26 minute animated Channel 4 TV special was first broadcast in 1982, four years after Raymond Briggs’ much loved and best-selling children’s book. It has been staged and become a videogame and the hit song ‘Walking in the Air’ recorded by Aled Jones in 1985 propelled him to stardom and became a huge hit.

Prokofiev’s perennial favourite Peter & the Wolf was composed in 1936 and was written to help children discover the instruments of the orchestra. It is possibly the most famous and successful work composed for children and famous actors and rock stars have contributed their narrations over the years.

The Liverpool String Quartet are members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

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