Stereo and digital recording. This record captures Europe's unique virgin oak forest (the Bialowieza range) where fabulous chorus of birds can be heard (blackbirds, song thrushes, robins, cuckoos, wood warblers, chiff-chaffs, black woodpeckers, gold-crested wrens...).

“This CD includes abundant recordings of typical alpine species, adapted to live at altitude, occurring above 1800 metres. Various national parks throughout the Alps, Vanoise, Ecrins, Mercantour, as well as national nature reserves, help to protect the Alps special wildlife that’s recorded here. This CD will help for a better understanding of the birds of the Alps and allow the listener to discover some 80 different species, arranged by habitat.” Patrick Fremeaux

The music of composer Milica Djordjevic, born in Belgrade in 1984, is based on an exuberant and imaginative use of sound. She has full command of the entire arsenal of contemporary sound and performance techniques, which never cease to surprise. She began her composition studies in her native city of Belgrade, where she was already working with electronic music, then went on to Strasbourg and IRCAM in Paris before completing her studies from 2011-2013 in Berlin with Hanspeter Kyburz at the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler. Her already extensive oeuvre, which is performed by leading international soloists and ensembles, includes pieces for solo instruments, chamber music works in a wide variety of formations, vocal works, and large-scale orchestral compositions. The diversity of her work highlights her versatility and technical virtuosity. Djordjevic has received numerous prestigious prizes and awards for her compositions, including the Belmont Prize for Contemporary Music (2015), the Composition Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (2016) and the Claudio Abbado Composition Prize of the Berlin Philharmonic (2020). In Milica Djordjevic's short orchestral work Mali svitac, �estoko ozaren i prestravljen nesnosljivom lepotom (Little firefly, brightly lit and shocked by unbearable beauty), commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic in 2023, the composer is concerned with "the immense energy it takes to make things glow". Her extended orchestral work Quicksilver was commissioned by musica viva of Bayerischer Rundfunk and premiered on December 16, 2016 by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Rundel in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz. It is precisely the strict limitation of the melodic movement to very few, narrow interval steps that makes it "all the richer and more colourful on the inside". Cvor (Knot) for winds, piano and percussion, a work commissioned for the Donaueschingen Music Festival, briefly but very intensively describes a knot that squeezes and twists and finally bursts. The fourth work on this BR-KLASSIK CD - Mit o ptici (Myth of the Bird) for choir and orchestra - was commissioned by musica viva in 2020 and premiered on October 28, 2022 with the Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra under the direction

(Booklet in French) the recordings presented on this disc were made in 1995, during a stay organized for Bernard Fort by Montreal University's Faculty of Music. The recordings presented on this record were made during a stay organized for Bernard Fort by Montreal University. This representation of Canadian soundscapes on seven sound tracks allows the listener to discover the pure beauty of these vast territories during spring and summer in a 70 minute long ecological symphony.

Stereo and digital recording. This record captures a day in the Savanna, where a concentration of fauna can be found at the rare water points : hippopotomi, the white-breasted sundbird, the garden bulbul.

Eloïsa Matheu and Francesc Llimona left for East Africa at the end of the dry season, when the Blue Wildbeest begin their migration south. They recorded in the big National Parks: Maasai Mara, Amboseli and Kakuru Lake in Kenya, then Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Manyara in Tanzania. The concerts which are successively recorded, aim at recreating the general atmosphere of these landscapes. Different biotopes fuse into one another. Birds are everywhere and sounds interweave. Patrick FReMEAUX

“This CD of a new kind allows the listener to listen to the Voices of the Ocean. On the 58 minutes of this CD you will hear the songs and calls – indeed, the “language” – of 5 species of Cetacea. Jean C. Roche realized this recording thank to the Marine Mammal Fund in San Francisco and its director, Mr Stan Minasian, who supplied him with rare and beautiful sounds.” Patrick Fremeaux English version

Natural atmosphere and wildlife of ile de Re (France). Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes. 2-CD set.

"The birds of France are either sedentary or migrant. The climate comprises a variety of soundscapes fashioned with a great diversity of bird songs. This sound guide features recordings compiled by Jean C. Roche and enables the listener to identify the various common species in France. Its 24-page booklet (with both French and English notes) presents all of the 99 species. To fully appreciate nature one must listen to it." Patrick Fremeaux

This CD of a new kind allows the listener to listen to the Voices of the Ocean. Over 58 minutes you will hear the songs and calls, indeed, the language of 5 species of Cetacea. Jean C. Roche realized this recording thanks to the Marine Mammal Fund in San Francisco and it's director, Mr Stan Minasian, who supplied him with rare and beautiful sounds. With the sounds of: Killer Whale, Beluga Whale, Narwhal Whale, Humpback, Bowhead Whale and Bearded Seals.

“The stars of this CD are the birds. Often discreet, whether migrants or residents, it’s in the spring when looking for a mate and nesting that the different species’ songs are at their height. Each bird then tries to make itself heard above the general chorus in woods, fields and gardens.” Pierre Palengat

"Although the Paris conurbation has a very high population density there are still many areas of special natural habitats within the capitals boundaries and on its outskirts, full of unique natural mixes of sounds. Their distinct sounds are due to the different bird species that make up the music of these natural concerts. The natural sound recorders, Francois Charron and Pierre Huguet, have put together four real concerts of the natural world, followed by an identification guide to the principal, commoner species." Patrick Fremeaux

Classical Music

Awankana is the somewhat "mythical" pseudonym of the founder and head of a genuine, spiritually and holistically orientated Educational Center and meeting place of the Ashkay Foundation, in the countryside near Buenos Aires. Awankana - tireless traveller, founder and inspirator of the place - realizes his concept of a healthy and integrated way of living. A touch of poetry lies over the "place" Awankana and the ever-lasting desire of men for Paradise.

The music of Serenidad captures the voices of nature and uses them to create an atmosphere of relaxation. On this CD, too, the music therapist and anthropologist Awankana manages to fuse the music of wide-ranging cultures into a harmonic unity by using many instruments and electronic technologies. The result is well suited to meditation.

Suggestions of late romanticism, elements from rock and jazz, ethnic music from Indian flutes to West Coast, choirs of angels, countless instruments he plays himself, like sitar, saranghi, harp, keyboards, guitars, various flutes and percussion, along with natural sounds... All this is interwoven and mixed as if it were completely natural. The Mantic music of the spiritual teacher Awankana, who lives near Buenos Aires, is unique. It is dreamlike not in the sense of the clich� but in the sense of C. G. Jung's theory of archetypes.

Awankana is the somewhat "mythical" pseudonym of the founder and head of a genuine, spiritually and holistically orientated Educational Center and meeting place of the Ashkay Foundation, in the countryside near Buenos Aires. Awankana - tireless traveller, founder and inspirator of the place - realizes his concept of a healthy and integrated way of living. A touch of poetry lies over the "place" Awankana and the ever-lasting desire of men for Paradise.

The sensitive tapestry of sound on this CD results from insights derived from Awankana's search for sounds that have a therapeutic effect. Sounds from nature serve as the basis for his organically developed, holistic music in which natural sounds and noises combine with elements from a wide range of musical cultures to form a "harmonious" music.

This recording is an especially good demonstration of how Awankana's music is always open to new influences. Here it is the tonal language of avant-garde music that is integrated naturally into rich music that is closely connected to nature.

Awankana - the somewhat "mythical" pseudonym of the founder and head of a genuine, spiritually and holistically orientated Educational Center and meeting place of the Ashkay Foundation, in the countryside near Buenos Aires. Awankana, tireless traveller, founder and inspirator of the place, realizes his concept of a healthy and integrated way of living. A touch of poetry lies over the "place" Awankana and the ever-lasting desire of men for Paradise.

Juber is among the finest acoustic finger style guitarist playing today. The music was recorded in REAL HD-Audio at 96 kHz/24-bit PCM and is presented in DOLBY Digital/MLP/96/24 PCM. Users can select from 3 different audio mixes. Bonus featured included on this double sided DVD.

Westminster Choir 100th Anniversary Recording

Music has the ability to illuminate aspects of the human condition in ways that only sound married to texts can achieve. One of the greatest preachers of the twentieth century, William Sloan Coffin, often remarked that music in most cases was more powerful than the spoken word. This recording represents just that. All the music on this recording reflects, in sound, that serenity (and, yes, beauty) is within all of us if we choose to go there. This recording celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Westminster Choir in 1920 by John Finley Williamson, albeit a bit later.