'Love Songs'

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Nothing here need give Elton John or James Blunt any sleepless nights. For starters, none of these 30 love songs have any words. When the Freiburg-based Ensemble Recherche asked a selection of their favourite composers to write them a short love song to mark their 25th anniversary in 2010, the brief was to compose an instrumental work that teased with the idea that, since the emergence of the post-war avant-garde, the love song had become an aesthetic no-no; 'instead the subject was left to pop, rock and other types of commercial music,' the booklet-notes tells us. …