OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879-1936) Gli Uccelli (The Birds) i Prelude ii The Dove iii The Hen iv The Nightingale v The Cuckoo Atlanta Symphony Orchestra - Louis Lane
CLÉMENT JANEQUIN (c 1485-1558) Le chant des oiseaux The Scholars of London
JOSEPH CANTELOUBE (1879-1957) Chants d'Auvergne i Deux Bourrées - N'aï pas iéu de Mîo - Lo Calhé ii Lou coucut Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Antonio de Almeida
ARTHUR MEULEMANS (1884-1966) Fir Symphony BRT Philharmonic Orchestra - Alexander Rahbari
ERNEST CHAUSSON (1855-99) Les Papillons, Op. 2/3 Le Colibri, Op. 2/7 Le Temps des lilas (from Op. 19) Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano); Gilbert Kalish (piano)
MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937) Histoires Naturelles i Le Paon (The Peacock) ii Le Grillon (The Cricket) iii Le Cygne (The Swan) iv Le Martin-Pêcheur (The Kingfisher) v La Pintade (The Guinea Fowl) Régine Crespin (soprano); Philippe Entremont (piano)
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959) Alvorada na Floresta Tropical - Overture CSR Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava) - Roberto Duarte
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) The Bee Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin)
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908) The Tale of Tsar Saltan - The flight of the bumble-bee Emma Johnson (clarinet)
PAVEL KULIKOV (1910-81) The Ancient Linden Tree Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra - Vitaly Gnutov
GEORGES BIZET (1838-75) La Coccinelle Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano); Myung-Whun Chung (piano)
OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879-1936) Pini di Roma i Pines of the Villa Borghese ii Pines Near a Catacombe iii Pines of the Janiculum iv Pines of the Appian Way Atlanta Symphony Orchestra - Louis Lane |