One Continent Five Worlds

Project description

This six-part wildlife series explores Europe’s most important and fascinating habitats, and meets their most remarkable wild inhabitants. Blue whales, polar bears, wolverines, rarely-seen marvels such as genets, Iberian wolves, Eurasian lynx and rare Persian leopards. Packed with spectacular imagery and new-to-science behaviour, Europe is one of the most ambitious wildlife series ever made, produced by Light & Shadow, directed by Christian Baumeister and Jozef Kaut.

Christian teamed up with German film composer Alex Komlew and over the course of 8 month, they’ve written hours of music ranging from lush orchestral music, strong thematic melodies to gritty electronic music as well as fun comedic tracks to capture the wonders of nature across the continent.

Each of the Episodes has its own musical language, whilst keeping a clear sonic path over all of the six episodes.

The score was recorded with the renowned WDR Rundfunk Orchester in Cologne, featuring soloists incl Flutes, Solo Strings and female vocals.

The result is a glorious homage to the incredible natural history of Europe, and a timely reminder that a world of stunning wildlife is often closer than we realise.