By Connie Kim
The flowers are blooming, the sun is shining, and spring has come! Get excited for warmer weather with jubilant selections for the season of renewal.
- Lyric Pieces, Op.43: No. 6, “To Spring” (Edvard Grieg) – Piano Book (Lang Lang)
- “D’un matin de printemps” (Lili Boulanger) – Boulanger: Faust et Helene (Yan Pascal Tortelier, BBC Philharmonic)
- “Im Frühling,” D. 882 (Franz Schubert) – Schubert Lieder (Renée Fleming)
- Spring Cantata, Op. 20 (Sergei Rachmaninoff) – The Rite of Spring (Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Rodion Pogassov)
- Four World Seasons: III. Spring in Japan (Roxanna Panufnik) – A Violin for All Seasons (BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tasmin Little)
- “Ecco la primavera” (Francesco Landini) – Aremorica – Land of Elves (Jessica Baran-Surel)
- Waltz of the Flowers (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) – Firelight: 20 Classical Masterpieces (London Symphony Orchestra)
- The Flower Duet (From “Lakmé”) (Leo Delibes) – Serenade (Katherine Jenkins, Kiri Te Kanawa, Philharmonia Orchestra, Anthony Inglis)
- “To a wild rose” (Edward MacDowell) – Unexpected Songs (Julian Lloyd Webber)
- Daphnis et Chloe, M. 57: Scene 3: Daphnis Prostrate at the Grotto of the Nymphs (Marice Ravel) – Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, M. 57 (Charles Munch)
- Trumpet Tune in C Major, Z. 697 (Henry Purcell) – Purcell, Simpson, Adson: Old English Brass Music (The Prague Brass Soloists)
- “Les papillons,” Op. 2 No. 3″ (Ernest Chausson) – Un Frisson Francais – A Century of French Song (Susan Graham)
- The Birds, P. 154: V. The Cuckoo (Ottorino Respighi) – Respighi: Orchestral Works (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra)