IF, LIKE me, you have fond memories of Camille Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals, which celebrated animals in a series of musical portraits, this CD is for you.
When composer Edward Williams recorded the soundtrack for the 1979 BBC documentary series Life on Earth, 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…
