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.

Works Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Op. 16 Bizet: Carmen Debussy: Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune Delibes: Sylvia Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore Elgar: Salut d'amour, Op. 12 Fibich: Symphony No. 1 in F major, Op. 17th Glazunov: From the Middle Ages, Op. 79 Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice Trade: Serse Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood MacDowell: Suite No. 2 'Indian', Op. 48 Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana Massenet: Thai Minkus: Don Quixote Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 Rachmaninov: Songs (14), Op. 34 Steiner: Gone With The Wind Strauss, R: A Hero's Life, Op. 40 Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20 suite Wagner: Tristan and Isolde Conductors Breiner, Peter DePreist, James Mogrelia, Andrew Morandi, Pier Giorgio Rahbari, Alexander Slatkin, Leonard Stromberg, William Wildner, Johannes Wit, Antoni Yablonsky, Dmitry Yuasa, Takuo Groups & Artists Detroit Symphony Orchestra Golani, Rivka London Symphony Orchestra Moscow Symphony Orchestra Nishizaki, Takako Russian State Symphony Orchestra Ulster Orchestra