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The White Hat Guide to Classical Music with Spoken Word
- Lambert Mr Bear Squash-you-all-flat - A children's story for narrator and chamber ensemble.
- Walton Facade
- Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
- Britten Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - was originally written for a film. Britten later published it as a concert work which can be performed ether with or without a narrator.
- Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals - Although the original score does not call for a narrator, this work is often performed with short poems between the sections. The most popular poems used for this purpose ae those by Ogden Nash.
- Rawstorne Practical Cats - was premiered at the Edinburg Festival in 1954. Rawsthorne's setting for speaker and orchestra of poems from T.S.Elliot's Old Possums Book of Practical Cats is great fun and preceded Andrew Lloyd Webber's now more widely known musical by some 27 years.
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