Fairy Tales
With Peggy Reynolds.
2: Cinderella. This story has everything: the downtrodden heroine with a cruel stepmother, jealous stepsisters, pumpkins that turn into carriages, glass slippers and even a Prince Charming. With excerpts from: Sondheim Into the Woods
Jacqueline Dankworth and Imelda Staunton (singers), orchestra, conductor Robert Stanger Rossini La Cenerentola
Soloists, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
Prokofiev Cinderella Russian National
Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev Massenet Cendrillon
Frederica von Stade (soprano),
Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Philharmonia, conductor Julius Rudel