Love and Passion in Music

Love is pervasive in music, as it is in life. In the first volume in this series of Love and Passion in Music, the focus falls on instrumental and orchestral music. Whether in a tone poem, symphonic movement, ballet or film, composers depict the passions of love through melodic beauty and sumptuous or refined instrumentation.

The subject matter ranges from Orpheus to Dr Zhivago, from Spartacus to Cinderella, but the means remain the same: love depicted and evoked through pure music.

Contains works by Berlioz, Bizet, Debussy, Delibes, Donizetti, Elgar, Fibich, Glazunov, Gluck, Handel, Korngold, MacDowell, Mahler, Mascagni, Massenet, Minkus, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Steiner, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Wagner.

Track Listing:
CD 1
1. Xerxes, HWV 40: Ombra mai fu
2. Sylvia: Valse lente
3. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L.86
4. From the Middle Ages, Op.79
5. Gone with the Wind: My Own True Love, "Tara's Theme"
6. The Sleeping Beauty, Op.66: Pas d'action
7. Ein Heldenleben, Op.40, TrV 190: III. Des Helden Gefährtin 
8. 14 Songs, Op.34
9. Suite No.2 in E Minor, Op.48 "Indian": II Love Song
10. Symphony No.1 in F Major, Op.17: III Adagio non troppo
11. Romeo and Juliet, Op.64: Love Dance
 
CD 2:
1. Carmen: Entr'acte
2. Orfeo ed Euridice: Che farò senza Euridice?
3. Harold in Italy, Op.16, H.68: III. Sérénade d'un montagnard des abruzzes a sa maitresse
4. L'elisir d'amore: Prelude 
5. Don Quixote: Amour 
6. Symphony No.5 in C-Sharp Minor: IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam
7. Swan Lake, Op.20a: No.14, Scène. Moderato
8. The Adventures of Robin Hood: Love Scene
9. Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act I - Isolde's Liebestod
10. Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo
11. Salut d'amour, Op.12
12. Francesca da rimini, Op.32
13. Thaïs: Meditation