Camille Saint-Saens' Grand Zoological Fantasy has delighted and thrilled audiences yound and old. No other work in the great classical music literature captures the spirits of the animal kingdom like Carnival. Hear it now as you have never heard it before.

A fictionalized account of how the composer Saint-Seans concieved of and wrote Danse Macabre.

"One day, two brothers discover a magical animal kingdom behind their bookcase. They are greeted by the royal lion with his shaggy mane; ask for directions from an old lonely turtle; take a ride on some lumbering elephants; topple a skeleton of dinosaur bones; and swim among a school of shimmering fish. If only they could take them all home..."--Provided by publisher.