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Ever since humankind began to sing, most songs with lyrics have been about love.
In fact, if we look closely, whenever a song isn’t sacred in nature, love almost always finds its way into it—sometimes directly, sometimes in metaphor.
But how is love expressed in instrumental music?
If not through words, then through what?
And why do we all seem to agree that certain melodies or harmonies unmistakably evoke the feeling of love?

These are the questions explored in the Danubia Orchestra’s concert, where it is the instruments themselves that fall in love.

Mozart’s overture presents love from the side of intrigue, as the opera it introduces tells the story of two men who test the fidelity of their lovers for sport.
Liszt’s Liebesträume (“Dream of Love”) was originally a song before it became world-famous as a piano piece—here performed in its orchestral version. Few remember the poem that inspired it, yet everyone can sense in the music the awakening, rekindling, and enduring power of love that survives all storms.
The story of Romeo and Juliet has inspired countless composers, among them Tchaikovsky, whose symphonic fantasy unfolds like an action-packed film in the listener’s imagination.
Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila overture celebrates the triumph of love fulfilled.
Shostakovich’s waltz blends classical music, jazz, and popular song—a wistful longing for something or someone just out of reach.
And the tender, melancholic love themes of Francis Lai (Love Story) and Henry Mancini gently lead us to Rezső Ott’s work, which brings together the history of love songs and ballads into a single, unified composition.