The Instruments of the Orchestra written by Jeremy Siepmann performed by Jeremy Siepmann on Audio CD (Abridged)

Instruments of the orchestra, yes, but not just instruments in the orchestra. This is a set of portraits in depth, featuring individual instruments in many contexts and in pieces from the Middle Ages to the present. Joining regular members are such exotic visitors as the eerie ondes martenot, the wind machine, banjos, bagpipes, coconuts, typewriters, six-shooters, taxi horns, and migrating swans / and the hundreds...

of examples range from illustrative snippets to entire movements.