Peter and the Wolf: When the Orchestra Told the Story
Before screens filled every quiet moment, a voice, a record player, and an orchestra could create an entire world.
In this edition of Listen with Gilbert, we open The Listening Room, a new Chesterton Radio series rediscovering the records, voices, music, and stories that taught generations how to listen.
We begin with Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf—the ingenious 1936 “symphonic tale” in which a flute becomes a bird, an oboe a duck, a clarinet a cat, French horns a wolf, and the strings a young boy named Peter.
We’ll listen again to the great tradition of narrated recordings, with…
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