IF, LIKE me, you have fond memories of Camille Saint-Saëns’s , which celebrated animals in a series of musical portraits, this CD is for you.
When composer recorded the soundtrack for the 1979 BBC documentary series , he pressed fewer than 100 copies. Years later, record producer Jonny Trunk, on hearing of a copy discovered in a London charity shop, set out to track one down. When he finally found one, he was smitten.
The new album, the first time the music has been issued, is a gem. In the atmospheric…
