Here is the voice of nature set to music by some of the world’s finest composers. The sky, the wind, the earth, the forest and the seasons, are vividly depicted, colorfully and melodically, through these performances by the Symphonic ‘Pops’ Orchestra, directed by Nathaniel Shilkret. It is music with a sense of freedom – the freedom to roam and wander unhampered through a land that has no boundaries, only the vastness of nature’s own realm – the ’Open Spaces.’ The hubbub of approaching spring in the cyclic course of seasons opens the album in a descriptive tone poem, Rustle Of Spring by the gifted Norwegian composer, Christian Sinding. Then, nature’s finest mantle – A Beautiful Day is melodically captured with infinite grace and shifting rhythms by Nathaniel Shilkret and Symphonic ’Pops’ in a captivating intermezzo composed by Niel Hallett. Part of the springtime scene is also strikingly depicted in Water Scenes, a series of five piano pieces by Ethelbert Nevin. The fourth of these, the popular Narcissus, is p