Autumn by the Fireside.

Listen out!  To welcome a gold and windy Autumn and “conker” your valuable attention, abracaDABra is broadcasting the complete first and second series of Family Fireside Concerts.

Beginning on Friday the 9th October, these special features will air every week 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 singing through the seasonal mists and rustles 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 is listed below, so settle down, get cozy and catch them all, only on abracaDABra!

If by chance one slips your mind. Don’t panic, curse or let you eyes fill up with water, they’ll be quite enough rain for the flowers and repeats can be heard at 11am each Saturday morning.  

Friday 9th October

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

Friday 16th October

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

Friday 23rd October

• Mr. Bach Comes to Call

Friday 30th October

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

Friday 6th November

• Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery

Friday 13th November

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

Friday 20th Novemeber

• Tchaikovsky Discovers America

Friday 27th November

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

Friday 4th December

• Beethoven Lives Upstars

Friday 11th December

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

Friday 18th December

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

Friday 25th Dec

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

Friday 1st January

• Hallelujah Handel

Friday 8th January

• Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage

Friday 16th January

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