Compact disc.

Arrangements for violin and orchestra.

O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi) / Puccini (3:26) -- The girl with the flaxen hair = La fille aux cheveux de lin (from Piano preludes, book I) / Debussy (2:36) -- Nocturne (Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. post.) / Chopin (4:08) -- The swan = Le cygne (from Carnival of the animals) / Saint-Saëns (2:49) -- Serenade (from Schwanengesang song cycle for voice and piano, D 957) / Schubert (3:47) -- Casta diva (from Norma) / Bellini (4:57) -- Andante (from Piano concerto no. 21 in C major, K. 467) / Mozart (6:16) -- Dance of the blessed spirits (from Orfeo ed Euridice) / Gluck (3:53) -- Nocturne (from String quartet no. 2 in D major) / Borodin (6:38) -- Songs my mother taught me = Als die alte Mutter (from Zigeunermelodien : songs for voice and piano, BI04, no. 4) / Dvořák (2:44) -- Pur ti miro (from L'incoronazione di Poppea) / Monteverdi (3:37) -- Élégie : O doux printemps d'autrefois (song for voice and piano) / Massenet (4:09) -- Träumerei = Dreaming (from Kinderszenen for piano : op. 15, no. 7) / Schumann (2:30).

Joshua Bell, violin; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; with additional instrumentalists; Michael Stern, conductor.

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England, June 11-13, 2003.