Your top three timeless favorite instrumental-only romantic/soft music

[Gumby]

Those are classic (more so Serenade if you want romantic). I remember discovering the double album Glenn Miller - A Memorial (now available on CD) in my parents’ collection. I realized my parents were actually pretty cool and not from Mars as I’d previously thought. [emoji4]

Good choice. If you like those, also try Moonglow by Benny Goodman.

 

[Stormy Kromer]

I don't know if it qualifies as a "love song" but I have always liked Classical Gas by Mason Williams. Wonderful musical performance.

 

[stepford]

Always kinda liked this one from when I was a kid...

 

[NW-Bound]

La Playa is a guitar melody to the rumba beat by Claude Ciari, a French musician born to a Japanese mother and French father. Recorded in 1964, it became a hit in 45 countries.

I enjoy the tune while imagining myself on a beach chair in Hawaii, in the shade of coconut trees in a mid afternoon, a glass of pina colada by my side. How does life get much better than that?

 

[jimbee]

Don't know if this meets the OP's criteria, but this is in my top three.

 

[Avalon]

Another version of Ashoken Farewell

 

[LOL!]

Does Ravel's Bolero fit here?

 

[Koolau]

Excellent choices, socca!

This is another one that I enjoy. "Ashokan Farewell"

A haunting piece - used often in the Ken Burns CIVIL WAR. I assumed it was "old" but, of course, it's quite recent, ca. 1982.

 

[O2Bfree]

The beginning of Waltz of the Flowers always brings me visuals of the lovely ballet in The Nutcracker.

But then this pops in:

 

[NW-Bound]

Does Ravel's Bolero fit here?

Indeed, Ravel's Bolero is very romantic, particularly if one remembers the scene in "10" between Bo Derek and Dudley Moore.

 

[NextInLine]

https://youtu.be/Ilx_Fi5qD0k
Aranjuez !

 

[Nemo2]

^^ Odd looking link there...

There you go:

 

[O2Bfree]

There you go:

Oh, thanks! That link was fine, I'd just never noticed a "youtu.be" link before and was hesitant to click on it. It's just a short version of a youtube link.

 

[Avalon]

 

[Starsky]

Alex de Grassi - Southern Exposure

 

[NW-Bound]

There you go:

Concierto de Aranjuez (2nd Movement) is also one of my favorites.

The above rendition is well done, even though I prefer the traditionally used cor anglais to the cello for some solo passages in this piece.

 

[Murph]

So many good suggestions here, my favorite instrumental romantic tune is a movie soundtrack by Pat Metheny’s “Map of the World”. Read the book, too.

 

[goxley11]

Love is Blue
Classical Gas
Joy by Apollo 100

 

[RunningBum]

Love is Blue
Classical Gas
Joy by Apollo 100

Three of my very favorite instrumentals. I don't really think of #2 and #3 as being romantic, but maybe some do.

 

[Joe1954]

Favorite instrumental song

I love the Ashoken Farewell... from Ken Burns Civil War series

 

[Bamaman]

Summer of '42

When I Fall In Love by Chris Botti

Will You Be My Valentine by Lola Astanova

 

[Janet from FIRE Planet]

Ashokan Farewell: Steel Guitar: Winnie Winston artist.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...67E7041509C103939E7F67E&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

 

[mcbraemer]

Love is Blue

Love is Blue a 1968 Top 10-er



https://youtu.be/rjsNNcsUNzE

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

Jeff Beck cranked out some great instrumental work in the late '70s. Here are a couple of the slow tunes.

 

[Sojourner]

I've always liked this one a lot. From the 1985 movie St. Elmo's Fire.