Les Fables de La Fontaine

Title: Les Fables de La Fontaine
Description: 1999 Les Fables de La Fontaine. CD. Racontées par Jean-Pierre Darras. Twenty fables and one "Le Thème des Contes." Sony Music Entertainment (France). ©1994 Puzzle Productions. $1.50 from jeff-9009 through Ebay, August, '03.

This is a lovely CD, perhaps the one I would most recommend for articulate presentation of the original French fables. I listened to the first four of the twenty fables – FC, GA, TH, and WL – and enjoyed them thoroughly. WL is read, for example, with a strong sense of pace that fits the fable. There is an appropriately understated musical background and a few sound effects. The final "Theme of the Contes" is a rather haunting instrumental piece.
Source: $1.50 from jeff-9009 through Ebay, August, '03.
Date: 1999
Subject: Audio-Visual; Compact Disks; Fables of La Fontaine CDs; Other Versions of La Fontaine's Fables; The Fox and the Crow; The Grasshopper and the Ant; The Tortoise and the Hare; The Wolf and the Lamb