Classical music label PENTATONE releases children’s audiobooks

11:39, 9th December 2020

In connection with World Children’s Day on 20 November, classical music label PENTATONE has released three of its most important classical music children’s albums as audiobooks

As well as telling the classic tales, the audiobooks help children understand how music can bring a story to life and explain which instrument is playing each character (in Peter and the Wolf, for example).

Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf has been released in English and Spanish versions, narrated respectively by actors Sophia Loren and Antonio Banderas. The English version can be found here.  

Cornelia Funke and Luna Pearl Woolf: Angel Heart, an original tale by best-selling children’s fantasy author Cornelia Funke woven with an evocative original score, is available in English and German. Narrated by actor Jeremy Irons, the English version can be accessed here. The German version is narrated by Funke herself.