The Unrequited Connection
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Pursued by Apollo, Daphne fled and was endlessly chased. [Painting by Francesca Albani, c.1615]
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 |
