Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
Carnaval des animaux / Carnival of the Animals

Sergey Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)
Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67

Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell)

The French composer Camille Saint-Saëns was prolific and lived a long time, although by the lime of his death in 1921 music had changed beyond anything he could have conceived. He was a gifted pianist and, in common with many other well known French composers, found employment and distinction as organist al one of the principal churches in Paris. The popular Carnival of the Animals, described as A Zoological Fantasy, was written in 1886, originally for two pianos and a small chamber orchestra, to celebrate that year's carnival. The composer forbade further performances of this occasional music, except for The Swan, which enjoyed immed