Tchaikovsky: Six Romances

Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Six Romances, Opus 16, is a work for voice and piano composed in 1869. The last of these songs is the melancholy None but the Lonely Heart, a setting of Lev Mei's poem The Harpist's Song, which was translated from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. The song premiered in Moscow in 1870.

Frank Sinatra recorded None but the Lonely Heart on his albums The Columbia Years 1943–1952: The Complete Recordings and The Columbia Years 1943–1952: The V-Discs. The musician/satirist Spike Jones' None But the Lonely Heart (A Soaperetta) begins with a brief instrumental version of None but the Lonely Heart.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) was a great Russian composer whose music is characterized by its magnificent melodies and sweeping orchestration. He wrote some of the most popular music in the classical repertoire, including the 1812 Overture, the first piano concerto, the violin concerto, the symphonies, the opera Eugene Onegin, and the ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker.