OK, here are the ones that we like in English --
A Child's Introduction to Mozart and Beethoven narrated by Robert Helpmann (
http://www.amazon.com/HELPMANN-Introduction-Beethoven-Wonderland-RLP1449/dp/B00933H5B2/ref=sr_1_fkmr3_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1349732966&sr=8-3-fkmr3&keywords=A+Child%27s+Introduction+to+Mozart+and+Beethoven+narrated+by+Robert+Helpmann)
and A Child's Introduction to Orchestra from Golden Records
A Child's Introduction to Ballet with Moira Shearer (Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty) from Riverside Wonderland -- my kiddos love ballet, and we went to a few performances with them to the National Ballet Company Theater, have the ballet DVDs, that they watch a few times a week, so this was truly a win win for them.
A Child's Introduction to Shakespeare narrated by Mary Douglas Dirks from Riverside Wonderland
Riverside Wonderland Record company also had a lot of classical fairy tales, as well as Telegeneral Let's Pretend records and Mercury Storyteller records from 60th I think, we have not done those, because we do classical literature and fairytales in Russian now. But thought to mention.
For a bit older ones I would say Tale Spinners for Children records ( I think they also from 60th) will be really good, we only done a few, and they were a bit over their heads ( I have 2 and 3 year olds), but they liked the ones about composers. We were given Their composer series in Itunes format as a gift, but I just found a place where quite a large collection of these older records are posted for private use (not sure but they might be out of copyright already) in either case there is a large collection of Tale Spinners posted here:
http://www.artsreformation.com/talespinnersAnd here on the same resource collection site I found other children's vinyl records that I mentioned and we like, as well as some other ones that I have never seen before (gotta check them out!):
http://www.artsreformation.com/records/We got a couple before from ebay, but they are not easy to find, and then you have to convert them to mp3...
So this site looks like a treasure to me, I think it is that person's private collection.
Here is another site with English children's stories, copied from old records --
http://www.kiddierecords.com/ http://storynory.com/ -- this site has some classics, some original stories and some history based. We have not done much of it, excerpt for some Aesops Fables, they record everything themselves, use British accent, but what I did not like quite a few of the stories had a short advertisement in the beginning.
https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?genre=Children -- this site might have something you can use, but it is not easy to search, this is the site where volunteers create audio files from out of copyright books, public domain books. I never got around looking for things here, but always planning to check it out
So if you find something you like, kindly share with us!
Another audio stories my children like:
The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child in audio format -- it is really good and it is done in short stories so I can just chose story or two to play at one time, we do it a lot while driving
The Audio Bible for Children ( we have actually a couple of different versions, and we rotate them, if you are interested I will check the exact names)
We do a lot in Russian as well, most classical literature we do in Russian at the moment.
Hope these help, I am looking forward to hear what others use as well!
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