It’s painful to fall in love with someone who doesn’t—or can’t-- return your affections.
But Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie strikes a hopeful note, writing “Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
That rainbow—in this hour at least—is music. . .by Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Wagner, Rachmaninoff, and more—written in hopeful infatuation—or after the Big Letdown.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
| Title | Group/Artist | Catalog # | UPC |
| Brahms: The Symphonies [for opening music from the Liebeslieder Waltzes] | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly | Decca 4785344 | 028947853442 |
| Beethoven: Complete Symphonies | Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Jay Willem de Vriend | Challenge CC72550 | 608917255027 |
| Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 | Vladimir Ashkenazy (pianist & conductor), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin | Decca 4831692 | 028948316922 |
| Mon chant vous envoy [for Machaut’s “Quant je sui mis au retour”] | Viva Bianca Luna Biffi, Pierre Hamon, Angélique Mauillon | Eloquentia EL1342 | 3760107400420 |
| Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes | Robert Shaw Festival Singers | Telarc D110548 | 089408032622 |
| Brahms: Serenades, Haydn Variations, etc., [for Alto Rhapsody] | Janet Baker, John Aldis Choir, London Philharmonic, Adrian Boult (cond). | EMI Classics 3 65229 2 | 094636522920 |
| Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 | Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev | Deutsche Grammophon 463 075-2 | 028946307526 |
| Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Frank Shipway. | RPO Records 28960 | 723721445454 |
