Connections

It can be 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