The exact dates during which Enescu worked on this composition remain uncertain, but it has a certain stylistic affinity with the other works which emerged from his stable in the years leading up to the Second World War. Only part of a single movement survives, entitled 'Nuages d'automne sur les forêts'. That this might have been intended as a cycle of pastorally-inspired tone poems is supported by the existence of another sketch titled 'Soleil dans les plaines', apparently dating from the same period. Voix de la Nature, as it remains extant, is scored for a small orchestra with a group of string soloists. It is too small a work on which to make any objective judgement but from a subjective standpoint it is a pity Enescu did not pursue the cycle idea.

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