Guess which season of the year is the favourite of every poet and composer? The answer is spring – and emphatically so! There is a luxuriant flora of spring songs both for choir and for solo voice, but such songs deserve a record of their own, so we have concentrated here on instrumental or orchestral ones, of which there is certainly no lack. So here they are, tributes to spring from composers from Italy, Germany, Austria, England and Norway, from Vivaldi to Delius in a happy mixture. Spring is here!