The Great Animal Orchestra, Symphony for Orchestraand Wild Soundscapes by English composer RichardBlackford and wild soundscape recordist BernieKrause combines the sounds of the natural world withthe traditional sounds of the orchestra. Throughout thefive movement symphony Gibbons, HumpbackWhales, Pacific Tree Frogs, Mountain Gorillas, Beaversand the Musical Wren can be heard. “I have never heard anything quite like this symphony,but, then, there has never been anything quite like thissymphony ... This music speaks with great eloquence,authority and immediacy, but not only on behalf ofhuman beings: it speaks also for the natural world,casting light upon humanity’s often less than felicitousrelationship with our fellow creatures.” Gramophone, July 2014
- ISMN: 9790708129004 (M708129004)
