Amazing Keystone Big Band - Peter and the Wolf and Jazz! CD (Mega Blowout Sale)
SKU
23-CDM
“Scottish actor David Tennant is well known from his starring roles in the popular British television show Doctor Who and as Barty Crouch, Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. On this special release from Le Chant du Monde, Tennant stars as the narrator in a fantastic jazz transcription of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and The Wolf.
Taking the place of a classical orchestra, The Amazing Keystone Big Band provide the musical elements that are essential to the telling of this classic story. The booklet also portrays the story in a series of magnificent illustrations by the French artist Martin Jarrie.
Commissioned in 2012 by the Festival Jazz a Vienne, this ''non-classical'' Peter and the Wolf aimed to introduce children to jazz. Prokofiev wrote the original work in 1936 to give young listeners an introduction to the instruments of the classical orchestra. Three-quarters of a century later, (with no small thanks to The Doctor) this new version will delight and inspire listeners of all ages.”
“There was a rock version of “Peter and the Wolf” years ago with Manfred Mann, Gary Broker and Phil Collins, among others, but it did not go beyond nice approaches. This version, on the other hand, was really successful. On the one hand, this is due to the narrator, David Tennant, who recites the English text expressively and with full emphasis, without it being too childlike. But above all, the implementation in the language of jazz is convincing. The music does justice both to Prokofiev's characters and to the jazz idiom. The first part follows the original story closely, while the second part is based on Prokofiev's original themes and gives instrumentalists plenty of room to improvise.”
- LabelChant du Monde
- UPC3149024237829