A Whipsnade photo
Vienna Philharmonic; Hermione Gingold (narrator; Ogden Nash, text); Kontarsky brothers (pianos); Wolfgang Herzer (cello; ‘The Swan’).
Edward Johnson suggests an alternative recording…
On this date in 1931 – Whipsnade Zoo (Bedfordshire, UK) first opened its doors. Saint-Saëns’s Le Carnaval des animaux; Karl Böhm’s DG recording.
