Pinocchio | Audiobook with Classical Music

«Pinocchio», Alexander Litvinovsky’s Suite for String Orchestra and Mandolin, sets to music the beloved tale of the wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. Boisterous and thrilling, it follows the acclaimed Suites «Le Grand Cahier», «Tales of the Magic Tree» and «Pelléas et Mélisande», which have established Alexander’s reputation as one of the most gifted and inventive contemporary composers of classical music. A fitting, adventurous tribute brimming with energy, now available on all streaming platforms!

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Narrator: Eliza G

Music:
Alexander Litvinovsky
Pinocchio: Suite per Orchestra d’Archi e Mandolino
(Suite for String Orchestra and Mandolin)

Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov
Mandolin: Anna Ignatova

The Adventures of Pinocchio, Italian title Le Avventure di Pinocchio: Storia di un Burattino (“The Adventures of Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet”) is a classic children’s novel written by Carlo Collodi published in 1883. It tells the story of the little marionette who wants to be a real boy, and provided the inspiration for Alexander Litvinovsky’s latest Suite for String Orchestra and Mandolin.

Composer Alexander Litvinovsky was born in Minsk in 1962. He graduated from the State Music College (1982) as a musicologist, from the Belarusian State Academy of Music in the class of composition under Prof. Dmitry Smolsky (1987) and received a post-graduate degree there (1991). He took part in workshops under the guidance of Jonathan Harvey and Michael Nyman (Great Britain), Louis Andriessen (Holland), Martin Bresnick (USA), Sylvano Bussotti (Italy), Tristan Murail and Fransois-Bernard Mache (France). As a composer he writes in various genres: from chamber, choral and symphonic music to electro-acoustic art. The creative concept: from tradition to avant-garde. Alexander’s music has been presented at various festivals and concerts around Europe and USA.

More music by Alexander Litvinovsky:
Le Grand Cahier https://youtu.be/PHmqZ5wo5pE
Tales of the Magic Tree https://youtu.be/IvO__uNG3ew
Pélleas et Mélisande https://youtu.be/SF3ED9dJOjM

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Once upon a time there was a wood carver called jepetto who had been gifted an enchanted piece of wood chapeto decided to carve it into a puppet and name it Pinocchio but one day to his surprise the marionet came to life and began to speak jepetto had always wanted a son

And it was overjoyed japeto was very poor but he decided to sell his coat to buy a spelling book for Pinocchio and send him to school so that he could study with other children the next day on his way to school Pinocchio saw a Puppet Theater intrigued he decided to skip

Class to watch the Show the puppets came on stage but when they saw Pinocchio and realized that it was just like them they stopped the show to give him a warm Welcome the disruption and angered the theater’s owner the Fearsome fire eater the man captured Pinocchio to punish him and threatening to make firewood out of the poor marionette but Pinocchio began to cry and fire eater took pity on him freeing him and giving him five gold coins for his father Japeto on his way home Pinocchio met the cat and the fox Who tricked him into following them to the gamber Roso In the two Rascals told the marionette that if he buried his coins in a place called the field of Miracles a tree full of gold coins would grow but it was a lie in fact after saying goodbye to Pinocchio the cat and the fox hid in the trees they wanted to

Steal his gold coins when he saw them Pinocchio realized that they had tricked him he tried to run away but the two caught him the puppet hit the coins in his mouth and the cat and the fox hung him from a big oak tree all night they hoped

To scare him into giving them the gold Coins Pinocchio cried the cat and the fox had left him there and all hope seemed lost but suddenly a little turquaz haired girl came to his Aid and freed him taking him home to nurse him the little girl turned out to be a fairy and she asked Pinocchio where he

Had put the coins the marionet began to tell lies to hide his Mischief but with each lie his nose grew longer and Longer Pinocchio then promised that from that moment on you would behave well the Blue Fairy fixed his nose and told him that if he was good she would turn him into a real Boy but soon Pinocchio got into trouble again he made friends with Candlewick Who convinced him to follow him to the land of toys There school did not exist and life was one long holiday after many days spent playing the puppet began to turn into a donkey he grew a

Long tail and funny ears such was the punishment for children who disobeyed their parents Pinocchio then fled from the land of toys and was again Saved By The Blue Fairy she made the donkey tail and ears Disappear back home Pinocchio discovered that japeto was searching for him at Sea worried about his disappearance the marionet then jumped into the sea to look for him but he was swallowed by a whale Pinocchio was scared but he found a surprise in the whale’s belly his father was there the animal

Had eaten jepetto to at night the whale slept with its mouth open and the two decided to wait until it was asleep to escape together chapeto could not swim but Pinocchio helped him to the shore keeping him afloat the Blue Fairy decided to turn Pinocchio into a real boy to reward his Courage jepetto returned to being a wood carver and from that day on Pinocchio always behaved like a good Boy