1 is a 51-minute studio album presenting seventeen of the thirty traditional Auvergnat songs collected and arranged by Joseph Canteloube, performed by von Stade and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Antonio de Almeida.

[1] The same artists recorded the rest of Canteloube's Auvergne songs and three mélodies of his own composition for a sequel album, Frederica von Stade: Chants d'Auvergne, Vol.

B. Steane reviewed the album on LP in Gramophone in February 1983, comparing it with earlier recordings of Canteloube's songs performed by Netania Davrath[2] and Victoria de los Angeles.

She is utterly personal and lovely in the lullabies, especially "Brezairola", in the sad plaining of "Oï, ayaï" and in the delicate lilt of "Lo fïolaré"."

[4] Steane revisited the album in Gramophone in March 1983, comparing it with a new recording of the Chants d'Auvergne performed by Kiri Te Kanawa.

That particularly touching song, "La delaïssádo", has its tenderness and sadness caught with a delicate poignancy by von Stade, in a manner quite personal to that singer."

With the help of the Royal Philharmonic and CBS's engineers, he had elicited "the greatest possible range and richness of colour" from Canteloube's lavish orchestrations.

Collectors tempted by Upshaw's album would "probably find that the consoling romanticism of [von Stade's] tried-and-trusted disc [was] more what they had in mind.

"[11] Frederica von Stade's approach to the Chants d'Auvergne was also critiqued in the 1988 edition of The new Penguin guide to compact discs and cassettes, which judged that "Fine as Frederica von Stade's singing is, she is stylistically and temperamentally far less at home in Canteloube's lovely folksong settings than Victoria de los Angeles, Kiri Te Kanawa or Jill Gomez[12]".

[4] Shortly afterwards, CBS Masterworks issued the album on CD (catalogue number MK 37299), with a 28-page booklet of notes, texts and translations.