The Very Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: With 10 Musical Sounds!

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Ideal for young fans of classical music aged 4-7 years and those beginning to learn an instrument, The Very Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is guaranteed to amaze and inspire. The story text leads you through magical scenes inspired by the orchestra and music with easy-to-read rhymes pulled out for younger readers and fascinating fact boxes to reinforce learning. The easy press buttons play 10 seconds of music each.

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Tim Lihoreau is the presenter of the biggest breakfast show on commercial radio: Classic FM's More Music Breakfast. Tim has won a multitude of awards for his radio writing and production on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as being the author of eleven books. His Modern Phobias has been translated into eleven languages. With a degree in music from the University of Leeds, he was a professional pianist before moving into radio. Along with his wife, he runs three amateur choirs in his home village in Cambridgeshire and regularly plays the organ at his local church. The full-length version of the composition performed by the National Youth Orchestra and conducted by Kevin Hathway. (11min 40sec) The work is one of the best-known pieces by the composer, and is often associated with two other works in music history: Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals and Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. [ citation needed] This piece is also commonly played as the intro for british band Yes' live tours, starting in the 2000s.Slightly more softly focused than our previous contenders is the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Davis. The music is still supremely well played and the final fugue, which begins with the instruments joining in one by one, reaches a suitably grand climax. Programme Notes". London Chamber Orchestra. 18 April 2013. Archived from the original on 4 August 2013 . Retrieved 3 August 2013. Duncan Lamont wrote an equivalent suite of variations (using the same Purcell theme) for jazz orchestra and narrator, The Young Person’s Guide to the Jazz Orchestra. [7] Mike Westbrook's After Smith's Hotel, subtitled The Young Person’s Guide To The Jazz Orchestra, was commissioned by the Snape Maltings Foundation and performed there in October 1983. [8] See also [ edit ] Philip Noyce has been the Managing Editor of Classic FM since March 2020 and a key part of the station for over a decade. In that time, he has written for a large array of radio programs and presenters, reaching millions of people. He has a first-class honors degree in Physics with Music from Royal Holloway, University of London and is a keen musician who plays the cello and electric bass.

As part of Classic FM’s 30th birthday celebrations, we have published a new interactive book, The Very Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra – the perfect introduction to orchestral music for the maestro-in-making in your life. Programme Notes". London Chamber Orchestra. 20 March 2013. Archived from the original on 4 August 2013 . Retrieved 3 August 2013. Thework,subtitled Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Henry Purcell, is based on a simple hornpipe from Abdelazer, a play for which Purcell composed incidental music in 1695. Britain uses this theme to show off the colours, ranges and charateristics of all the instruments of a modern symphony orchestra. The piece is a great way to get to know the individual components of the orchestra, and it's also a fantastic listen. (particularly with some freshly brewed coffee on a weekend morning, according to Bill!) Follow Ava and Jayden on a magical journey, as they discover the instruments of the orchestra, and explore beautiful scenes inspired by the music. Introduce the maestro-in-making in your life to orchestral music. Young readers can discover instruments from the violin to the trumpet and learn about the composers and their dazzling pieces. The spreads tell the story of the classical tune, while the sound button brings it to life.Written by Tim Lihoreau, host of Classic FM’s More Music Breakfast, and Philip Noyce, Classic FM’s managing editor, with illustrations by artist and illustrator Olga Baumert, it’s an ideal book for young fans of classical music and those beginning to learn an instrument. This really is a joy to behold, and the perfect title to use as an opener to music lessons." Teach Primary Comedian and author John Hodgman wrote a new narration of The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra in 2015 for a series of performances with the Boston Pops Orchestra. [4] [5] [6] Jazz orchestra versions [ edit ] Discover the main instruments of the orchestra accompanied by 10 sound clips of child-friendly famous pieces, including Lark Ascending, Flight of the Bumblebee, Carnival of the Animals, Children’s Intermezzo Suite, and more. A new narration was written by Simon Butteriss for the Aldeburgh Festival and broadcast live by CBBC presenter Johny Pitts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the Britten 100 celebrations in 2013.

Introduce the maestro-in-making in your life to orchestral music. Follow Ava and Jayden on a magical journey as they discover the instruments of the orchestra and explore beautiful scenes inspired by the music. Young readers can discover instruments from the violin to the trumpet, and learn about the composers and their dazzling pieces. The spreads tell the story of the classical tune, while the sound button brings it to life. Discover the main instruments of the orchestra accompanied by 10 sound clips of child-friendly famous pieces, including Lark Ascending, Flight of the Bumblebee, Carnival of the Animals, Children's Intermezzo Suite, and more. Britten’s forceful approach may surprise some, but this recording will certainly engage both the orchestral novice and the initiated.LP. Condition: Gut. LP-Vinyl Schallplatte(n) in einem guten bis sehr guten Zustand, am Cover kleinere Gebrauchsspuren. Stereo und/oder Mono. Platte top. Music From Cinderella = Cendrillon Extraits = Aschenbrödel Auszüge Composed By Sergei Prokofiev A1 Introduction 2:43 A2 Quarrel = La Leçon De Danse = Die Tanzstunde 3:10 A3 At The Palace = L'Arrivée De Cendrillon Au Bal Grande Valse = Cinderellas Ankunft Auf Dem Ball Grosser Walzer 7:35 A4 Spring And Summer Fairies Grasshopper Dance = La Fée Printemps La Fée Eté Grillons Et Libellules = Die Frühlingsfee Die Sommerfee Grashüpfer Und Libellen 4:18 A5 Fairy Godmother And Winter Fairy = La Fée Hiver Le Départ Interrompu Scène Au Carillon = Die Winterfee Der Gestörte Aufbruch Die Scene Mit Der Uhr 5:42 B1 Cinderella's Waltz Midnight = Valse Coda Minuit = Waltzer-Coda Mitternacht 4:45 B2 Apotheosis = Amoroso 3:00 B3 The Young Persons' Guide To The Orchestra = Variations Et Fugue Sur Un Thème De Purcell = Orchesterführer Für Junge Leute Variationen Und Fugue Über Ein Thema Von Purcell Composed By Benjamin Britten 17:12 LP106 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1001. Boston Pops (14 May 2015). "Excerpts from John Hodgman's Debut Narration with Boston Pops". Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 – via YouTube. Here, you can listen to a report on the premiere of the piece, a full-length performance, an interview with the composer and find out more about the performers. All files are in MP3 format. Follow Ava and Jayden on a magical journey, as they discover the instruments of the orchestra, and explore beautiful scenes inspired by the music. Introduce the maestro-in-making in your life to orchestral music. Young readers can discover instruments from the violin to the trumpet, and learn about the composers and their dazzling pieces. The spreads tell the story of the classical tune, while the sound button brings it to life. EducationGuardian.co.uk hears the very first performance of A Very Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by Andrew Cottee and speaks to conductor Kevin Hathway. Performed by the National Youth Orchestra. (2min 45sec)

For those wishing to hear a narration (usually omitted these days), then Dame Edna Everage provides her own distinctive version to great effect in conductor John Lanchbery and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s interpretation. Credit to the engineers for capturing some fine playing with a natural recorded balance. The composer’s own recording with the LSO was made in 1963, but in no way does it show its age. The opening theme, both vibrant and lively, sets the tone for a performance of great character in a recording that is simply stunning, albeit on the close side. Listening to each instrumental family demonstrating its own unique timbre and idiom, Britten must have been overwhelmed by his accomplished orchestra here.The piece uses nursery rhymes, which come together in the finale, to introduce the four sections of the orchestra and its instruments to children under 12. After the whole orchestra has been taken apart in this way, it is reassembled using an original fugue which starts with the piccolo, followed by all the woodwinds, strings, brass and percussion in turn. Once everyone has entered, the brass are re-introduced (with a strike on the tamtam) with Purcell's original melody. [3] External audio The work is based on the Rondeau from Henry Purcell's incidental music to Aphra Behn's Abdelazer, [2] and is structured, in accordance with the plan of the original documentary film, as a way of showing off the tone colours and capacities of the various sections of the orchestra.