Overtone Music has released a new soundtrack album for the 2001 nature documentary series Walking with Beasts created by Tim Haines, Jasper James & Andrew Wilks, produced by BBC Science Unit and narrated by Kenneth Branagh (in its original version) and Stockard Channing (in the U.S. version). The album features the original score from the show composed by Ben Bartlett (The Tunnel, Vera, Lucan, The Loch) and performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, including previously unreleased music. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Listen to the composer’s title track and one of the new tracks after the jump. The original 2001 soundtrack album was released on CD by BBC Records. The composer has previously released a new digital version of his Walking with Dinosaurs soundtrack last week. Walking with Beasts premiered in 2001 in the UK on BBC One and in the U.S. (under the title Walking with Prehistoric Beasts) on the Discovery Channel. The full season is now available on VOD and DVD.
Here’s the track list of the album:
1. Walking with Beasts (3:30)
2. Hogs Blood (3:53)
3. New Dawn (3:01)
4. Earthquake (3:25)
5. Mating (1:51)
6. Lucky Escape (3:27)
7. Gentle Giant (7:07)
8. Prologue (Australopithecus) (2:22)
9. Elephant Attack (2:19)
10. Great Journey (2:20)
11. The Stoning (3:20)
12. Blade Brothers (3:13)
13. Infanticide (3:13)
14. Sabre Hunters (3:12)
15. Suddenly Winter
16. Mammouth Journey (2:23)
17. Humans on the Tundra (2:34)
18. Cliff Hanger (3:18)
19. Arrival (Of Sapiens) (2:24)