X-rated if true to Nature in the raw.
Peter and the Wolf
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08j89tq
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Performers: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Narrator: David Attenborough
Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier
Recording date: 22 September 1999
Date of broadcast: 20 December 2000
On one of his four appearances on Desert Island Discs, Sir David chose the G-minor String Quintet by Mozart (K516) as the one work of the eight to be saved (if not necessarily in this Grumiaux-led recording)…
Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Georges Janzer (viola) & Eva Czako (cello) with Árpád Gérecz (violin II) & Max Lesueur (viola II).
Philips, released 1974, sleeve note by Deryck Cooke.
And, of course, the Saint-Saëns, first whimsically from Detroit, with members of the DSO, Christina & Michelle Naughton (pianos), Leonard Slatkin (reciter & raconteur) and a cast of cuddly toys…
https://livefromorchestrahall.vhx.tv/videos/camille-saint-saens-the-carnival-of-the-animals
Et enfin, depuis les rues et les environs de Paris, des musiciens locaux (ainsi qu'un grand pianiste bulgare et un qui était italo-français) font défiler les animaux si soigneusement composés par un merveilleux compositeur, par Georges...
Aldo Ciccolini & Alexis Weissenberg (pianos)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Georges Prêtre
Recorded in 1965, Paris; ASD 2316 (released 1967).
The third movement of the Poulenc…
Well-chosen, Colin, and birthday greetings to Sir David.