From Our Hearts to Yours

Evening Music | May 6, 2010
It's Valentine's Day! For the ultimate make-out music, listen during our first hour to Ravel's "Bolero," in a steamy performance by the Vienna Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel.

Faure's Piano Quartet No. 1 holds pride of place in hour two, as Emanuel Ax is joined by violinist Isaac Stern, violist Jaime Laredo, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, in an all-star valentine to chamber music enthusiasts.

Ever since its first performance in 1881, Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings has tugged at the strings of the heart, enrapturing all who hear it. Robert Irving conducts the New York City Ballet Orchestra.

Wagner’s great outpouring of love, the 'Liebestod' from "Tristan and Isolde," receives a glorious reading by soprano Monserrat Caballe, with Zubin Mehta leading the New York Philharmonic.

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