Who doesn't love them - the well-known melodies of swans, elephants, fossils: the Wiener Symphoniker recorded Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals in 2016 with conductor Lahav Shani and children's presenter Willi Weitzel and released it on CD with another classic - Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. Timelessly good.
CD
Camille Saint-Saëns "The Carnival of the Animals", Great zoological fantasy with new texts from Willi Weitzel
Benjamin Britten "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra", variations and fuge to a theme of Henry Purcell
Conductor: Lahav Shani
Text and speaker: Willi Weitzel
Wiener Symphoniker
Recording Location
The Carnival of the Animals: Wiener Konzerthaus, 7 December 2015
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Musikverein Wien, 14 March 2016
