Tuesday, February 14 at 7 p.m.
Join Mark Perzel for Love Greetings, a two-hour special that provides the perfect backdrop for your romantic Valentine's Day celebration.
Featuring lush classical music and wonderful romantic poetry, Love Greetings couples melodies that are bold, passionate and affirming with gentler tunes that play like soft musical caresses. Not all of these pieces were written with love in mind, but each of the melodies will touch your heart.
Included will be Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21; Elgar's Love's Greeting; Lizst's Dreams of Love #3; Puccini's O Mio Babbino Caro; Canzone of Love by Bodorova, and many more.
Part 1:
Edward Elgar
Love's Greeting
Nigel Kennedy, violin; Peter Pettinger, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Paganini Variation #18
City of Birmingham Symphony
Simon Rattle, conductor; Cecile Ousset, piano
Leo Delibes
Lakme: Flower Duet
Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra
Richard Bonynge, conductor; Joan Sutherland and Jane Berbie
Aram Khachaturian
Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia
Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Alexander Borodin
Nocturne for String Quartet #2
Takacs Quartet
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons: Winter: Largo
Amsterdam Guitar Trio
Pietro Mascagni
Cavaleria Intermezzo
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi, conductor
Part 2:
Joaquin Rodrigo
Aranjuez Concerto: Adagio
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Goran Sollscher, guitar
Jules Massenet
Thais: Meditation
National Philharmonic
Richard Bonynge, conductor; Nigel Kennedy, violin
Giacomo Puccini
Gianni Schicchi: O Mio Babbino Caro
London Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard, conductor; Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Michel Colombier
Emmanuel
English Chamber Orchestra
Andrew Litton, conductor; Branford Marsalis, saxophone
Part 3:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #21: Andante
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor; Rudolf Serkin, piano
Malcom Arnold
Four Scottish Dancers: Allegretto
The Philharmonia
Bryden Thomson, conductor
Fritz Kreisler
Love's Sorrow
Pinchas Zuckerman, violin; Marc Neikrug, piano
Peter Tchaikovsky
Romeo & Juliet: Love Theme
Philharmonia Orchestra
Johann Sebastian Bach
Piano Concerto #5: Largo
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner, conductor; Andrei Gavrilov, piano
Sylvie Bodorova
Canzone of Love
Prague Chamber Orchestra
Jiri Behlohlavek, conductor; Lubomir Brabec, guitar
Part 4:
Joseph Canteloube
Songs of the Auvergne: Bailero
English Chamber Orchestra
Jeffrey Tate, conductor; Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Franz Liszt
Love Dream #3
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #2: Andante
Royal Philharmonic
Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor; Helen Grimaud, piano
Johann Pachelbel
Canon
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra