- Audio Cassette (26 Sep 1996)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Delos Records
- ASIN: B00000070P
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
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Track Listings
| 1. Taking Flight! |
| 2. I'm Flying |
| 3. Arrival of Wendy |
| 4. Second Star to the Right |
| 5. Peter, Peter |
| 6. Following the Leader (Tee-Dum Tee-Dum) |
| 7. When I Went Home |
| 8. When I Went Home |
Product Description
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Nice music by Donald Fraser moves this classic tale along, and it's all very much in keeping with the spirit of this delightful adventure story for children. Lovely performances open each chapter of the two-disc set, including such highlights as a rapturous oboe solo played by Alan Vogel to introduce Chapter Five, "The Mermaid's Lagoon." Chapter Seven, "Peter to the Rescue," is heralded by a particularly heroic score. The music is performed by Donald Fraser and the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra. The narrator is the distinguished British stage and television actor, Derek Jacobi, who's got the kind of voice that could make great poetry out of the copy on the back of a shampoo bottle. Words and music make a winning combination here. --Gwendolyn Freed
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Beautiful
4 Mar 2001
Format:Audio CD
It was great to finally see a Peter Pan soundtrack that was all instrumental after searching for so long. The music is absolutely beautiful and just what I had been looking for. If you like classical music the songs are really pretty and easy listening. It was a shame that there aren't more tracks.
Lovely, just lovely
5 May 2012
Format:Audio CD
When I first purchased An Awfully Big Adventure - The Best of Peter Pan (1904-1996) some years ago, I fell in love with it, so much so, that I purchased copies for my younger nephews and the younger children of several of my friends. The mother of one boy, wicked but also very bright and sensitive, reported that he was so touched by the music that he cried. My reaction in listening to it for the first time in several years a couple of days ago was one of joy and delight.
Particularly revelatory for me were: Leonard Bernstein's exquisite "Peter Peter" from his musical version of Peter Pan, produced on Broadway and starring Jean Arthur four years before the hit Mary Martin production; the achingly beautiful "The Arrival of Wendy" by John Crook from the original 1904 production of James M. Barrie's play; "The Mermaids' Lagoon," an original composition by the album's arranger, Donald Fraser; and a song that the liner notes calls "the much talked about, but little heard, 'great lost song' from the Martin musical," Carolyn Leigh and Moose Charlap's "When I Went Home" that was every bit as beautiful and sad as Martin herself described it.
I cannot recommend this CD enough, whether for youngsters or those wanting to feel young again.
Particularly revelatory for me were: Leonard Bernstein's exquisite "Peter Peter" from his musical version of Peter Pan, produced on Broadway and starring Jean Arthur four years before the hit Mary Martin production; the achingly beautiful "The Arrival of Wendy" by John Crook from the original 1904 production of James M. Barrie's play; "The Mermaids' Lagoon," an original composition by the album's arranger, Donald Fraser; and a song that the liner notes calls "the much talked about, but little heard, 'great lost song' from the Martin musical," Carolyn Leigh and Moose Charlap's "When I Went Home" that was every bit as beautiful and sad as Martin herself described it.
I cannot recommend this CD enough, whether for youngsters or those wanting to feel young again.
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