New Year by the Fireside.

Listen out!  To welcome the new year, abracaDABra is broadcasting the complete first and second series of Family Fireside Concerts.

Beginning on Friday the 17th January, these special features will air every day at 5pm and include Paddington Bear’s First Concert, with Stephen Fry and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Little Red Riding Hood a musical fairy-tale by Tom Smail and Emma House, told by Harry Enfield, and a specially narrated version of Mussorgsky’s masterpiece, Pictures at an Exhibition.

Also joining the festivities will be award winning Canadian company “Classical Kids”, with their fantastic and enthralling musical stories all about the greatest composers and their most famous masterpieces.  Join Mozart on his Magnificent Voyage and Tchakovsky as he discovers America! These stories are related by fictitious characters who explore the amazing lives, places and times in which the composers lived and wrote their wonderful music.

A full schedule of the concerts will be listed below, so settle down, get cozy and catch them all, only on abracaDABra!

Attention! Due to a slight mix up, the concerts that were scheduled from the 18th to the 23rd were not broadcast, don’t worry, you’ll have a chance to hear them again at the end of the series, please check back for further info!

Friday 17th January

• A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britton.
  Conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

Saturday 18th January

• Paddington Bear’s First Concert by Herbert Chappell. Story told by Stepen Fry.

Sunday 19th January

• Mr. Bach Comes to Call

Monday 20th January

• Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky. Narrated by Peter Schofield.

Tuesday 21st January

• Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery

Wednesday 22nd January

• Little Red Riding Hood. Composed by Tom Smail. Written by Emma House.
  Story Told by Harry Enfield

Thursday 23rd January

• Tchaikovsky Discovers America

Friday 24th January

• Snow White by Johnathan Willcocks. Story told by Martin Muncaster.

Saturday 25th January

• Beethoven Lives Upstars

Sunday 26th January

• Peter and the Wolf. By Sergei Prokofiev. Narrated by Leonard Bernstein.

Monday 27th January

• The Three Little Pigs. Adapted by Roald Dahl and set to music by Paul Patterson.
  Story told by Chris Jarvis.

Tuesday 28th January

• Hallelujah Handel

Wednesday 29th January

• The Snowman by Howard Blake. Story told by Chris Jarvis.

Thursday 30th January

• Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage

Friday 31st January

• The Sleeping Beauty Composed by Tom Smail. Written by Emma House.
  Story Told by Harry Enfield.