The Great Animal Orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins
No one obviously told British composer Richard Blackford about the show business adage 'Never work with children or animals'. Courageously, and with technical flair, he forged ahead with The...
The Great Animal Orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins
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No one obviously told British composer Richard Blackford about the show business adage 'Never work with children or animals'. Courageously, and with technical flair, he forged ahead with The...
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The Great Animal Orchestra, Symphony for Orchestra and Wild Soundscapes by English composer Richard Blackford and wild soundscape recordist Bernie Krause combines the sounds of the natural world with the traditional sounds of the orchestra. Throughout the five movement symphony Gibbons, Humpback Whales, Pacific Tree Frogs, Mountain Gorillas, Beavers and the Musical Wren can be heard. For more information please visit: thegreatanimalorchestrasymphony.com
The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony is accompanied by a new reorchestration of Saint-Saën's Carnival of the Animals by Richard Blackford for Symphony Orchestra.
Contents and tracklist
Richard Blackford, Bernie Krause, Christopher Cook:
Bernie Krause and Richard Blackford in conversation with Christopher Cook
Work length20:55
This work is only available as an album download.
Awards and reviews
January 2015
No one obviously told British composer Richard Blackford about the show business adage 'Never work with children or animals'. Courageously, and with technical flair, he forged ahead with The Great Animal Orchestra, the world's first symphony written for orchestra and a sonic menagerie...And there are moments of genuine magic.
October 2014
Blackford is a dab hand with his orchestral palette. His scoring is colourful and he fashions a suite in symphonic outline with an internal structure to each movement.
