The carnival of the animals : grande fantaisie zoologique / Camille Saint-Saëns. Ferdinand / Alan ...

Album description
1 audio disc : digital, stereo. ; 12 cm.
Philips: 416 841-2.
For chamber ensemble (1st work); for speaker and violin (2nd work); for speaker and piano (3rd work); melodrama for speaker and double bass (4th work).
Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire, pianos ; Gidon Kremer, Isabelle van Keulen, violins ; Mischa Maisky, cello ; Georg Hörtnagel, double bass (1st work) ; Elena Bashkirova, speaker (2nd-3rd works), piano (3rd work) ; Gidon Kremer, violin (1st-2nd works), speaker (3rd-4th works) ; Alois Posch, double bass (4th work).
Recorded in 1985 (1st work), 1981 (2nd, 3rd works), and in 1987 (4th work).

I. Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921. Carnaval des animaux. Éléphant
II. Ridout, Alan, 1934-1996. Little sad sound
Reviews
  1. 1. Stereo review, Dec.1988, p. 160.
  2. 2. Fanfare: No/De 1988, 265-266.