David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf is a classical music album originally released by RCA Red Seal Records on 2 May 1978.

It has since been reissued with different artworks and additional recordings, including of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite (1892) and Camille Saint-Saëns's The Carnival of the Animals (1922).

The composition tells the story of a boy named Peter who travels outside his grandfather's garden in hopes of finding a big bad wolf.

[2][3][4] The composition originally premiered in Moscow in 1936 to lukewarm reception and remained relatively obscure in the western world until Walt Disney adapted it into an animated short film in 1946.

[2] For their version, RCA Records initially wanted the actors Alec Guinness and Peter Ustinov for narration,[7] but both turned the project down, leading the label to hire David Bowie.

[8] The orchestra consisted of a flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, three horns, trumpet, trombone, timpani, drum, two violins, viola, cello and double bass.

[15] This release also included an additional recording of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite (1892), again performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Ormandy, and produced by Max Wilcox.

[2][15] Other critics praised the project as a whole, with Jon Savage of Sounds magazine calling the LP a "perfect" introductory album to classical music for young children, or "if you're a 'child of all ages'.

And for children, it opens the door to a fantasy world of captivating music.In a review for AllMusic, Joe Viglione called the LP a "remarkable and well-crafted project".

This is an accomplished piece of work and a fascinating curio from a period in which his other unlikely collaborations embraced figures as diverse as Marc Bolan, Bing Crosby and Marlene Dietrich.