The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony

// Hidden Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.   A Biophony™ Album The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony for Orchestra and Wild Soundscapes, is the first Western large-scale composition to utilize natural soundscapes as a component of orchestration, integrating them into the composition as instrumental voices. The entire symphony, a collaboration between composer, Richard Blackford and soundscape ecologist, Bernie Krause, was drawn from the textures, rhythms and melodies inherent in Krause’s field recordings (and inspired by his recent book of the same title). Combined with Blackford’s orchestration of Camille Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals, the works are performed by the 70 piece BBC National Orchestra of Wales. This recording is an homage to the source of our music, the voice of the natural world. It includes a BBC 20 minute intro to the piece…a conversati