Pyotra and the Wolf

I’ve been a die-hard Holst fan since reading her novella In the Palm, so of course I’m going to jump at her newest release. Pyotra and the Wolf is a retelling of the symphonic Russian fairy tale Peter and the Wolf. If you listen to the fairy tale, which I did immediately after finishing Pyotra (and remembered listening to it from childhood), you can see the small nods towards the original.

Here’s a quick plot—

After a wolf pulls Pyotra’s brother, Sergie, from a wet and frozen grave, a hunt...