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Classic Kids

Classic Kids is a compilation album of classical music compiled by Stephen McGhee. It was released in 1992 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and was subtitled A Fun Way for Children to Enjoy the Classics. Whilst sometimes credited to ABC Symphony Orchestra, it was recorded by various Australian orchestras, conductors and soloists. A 68-page teachers guide was available with the album. The album won the ARIA Award for Best Children's Album in 1993.

Track listing

William Tell overture<br> 1. Finale (Gioachino Rossini)

Nutcracker<br> 2. March (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)<br> 3. Trepak (Tchaikovsky)<br> 4. Flight of the bumble bee (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)

Snugglepot and Cuddlepie<br> 5. Mrs Kookaburra (Richard Mills) <br> 6. Perpetum mobile (Johann Strauss II) <br> 7. Seven little Australians (Bruce Smeaton) <br> 8. The Washington Post (John Philip Sousa) <br> 9. Dance of the toy flutes (Tchaikovsky)

Carnival of the animals<br> 10. The swan (Camille Saint-Saëns)<br> 11. The elephant (Saint-Saëns)

Eight Russian folk songs<br> 12. I danced with a mosquito (Anatoly Liadov)

Comedians<br> 13. Gallop (Dmitry Kabalevsky)

The nutcracker<br> 14. Dance of the sugar plum fairy (Tchaikovsky)

Nursery suite<br> 15. The merry doll (Edward Elgar) <br> 16. Shepherd's hey (Percy Grainger)

Ballet suite no. 1<br> 17. Dance (Dmitry Shostakovich)

Romeo & Juliet<br> 18. The street awakens (Sergei Prokofiev)<br> 19. Radetsky march (Johann Strauss I)<br> 20. Show people (Carl Davis)

Personnel

Orchestras

Conductors

  • Werner Andreas Albert
  • Myer Fredman
  • Peter Grunberg
  • John Hopkins
  • Richard Mills
  • Roland Peelman
  • Vladimir Ponkin
  • Shalom Ronly-Riklis
  • Albert Rosen
  • Bruce Smeaton

Musicians

  • Anthony Baldwin (Piano)
  • David Bollard (Piano)
  • David Pereira (Cello)
  • Walter Sutcliffe (Double Bass)

References