Thread: Sexy classics

Hi all,
What music can you think of that is sexy? Ravel's Bolero comes to mind, as do some works for saxophone and orchestra, like Glazunov's concerto perhaps.
What else can people think of?

Le Sacre du printemps.

Well that was an obvious response, so I will duck out in shame now.

I put forth the Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia by Kachaturian.

I've just thought of two more:

Mozart - Clarinet Concerto (slow movement)

Debussy - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

I'm not really that aware of the repertoire, but things for wind instruments (like the Glazunov and Mozart above) seem to fit into this category well.

Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe
Tchaikovsky - Romeo & Juliet fantasy overture

Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy.

Andantino (II) from Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony
Solveig's Song from Greig's Peer Gynt
Larghetto from Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D

You mentioned Ravel's Bolero, and a particular movie with Dudley Moore and Bo Derek comes to mind. Can't remember the name of it...

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Originally Posted by Rondo

You mentioned Ravel's Bolero, and a particular movie with Dudley Moore and Bo Derek comes to mind. Can't remember the name of it...

Well, just count to 10... it'll come back to you.

Originally Posted by Chi_town/Philly

related threadWell, just count to 10... it'll come back to you.

Yes, I knew I would recognize it if I saw it.

I'm thinking of two types of sexy:

1. Act 2 of Gounod's Romeo et Juliette. If I had to choose one part, I might go for the short orchestral intro to this act: there's a motif - actually a leitmotif I suppose, as it's heard in many places throughout the opera - played on the strings that's like the soft touch of a girl's hand: sexy and feminine and gentle and somehow sad, all at the same time.

2. The Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde, is the most urgent, orgasmic music I know: sex and death are so intertwined here that they can't be separated.

The overture to Der Rosenkavalier.

Originally Posted by jhar26

The overture to Der Rosenkavalier.

What about the Presentation of the Rose? That seems more mystical to me than sexy, but how do you see it?

The love scene from Strauss' Symphonia Domestica; The Song of the Newly Weds in the Bridal Chamber from Orff's 'Trionfo di Afrodite'; the third of Messiaen's Cinq Rechants. Three blatant representations of physical love, two of which include a musical representation of orgasm.

Originally Posted by Elgarian

What about the Presentation of the Rose? That seems more mystical to me than sexy, but how do you see it?

Yes, both mystical and romantic I'd say. Lots of tenderness in that music.

The overture is more about lust. Very beautiful but passionate music that perfectly illustrates what's going on in that bedroom. That's the way I see it anyway.

Bach's Praeludium from Solo Cello Suite no. 1 (I think) - if that's not a depiction of an orgasm at the end I don't know what is!