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?
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 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.
I can see that I'm going to have the most unusual response....
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. The Pas de Deux and a couple of the other pieces are so lush, so powerfully romantic that it's far sexier to me than other pieces that are more obviously orgasmic. If sexy is what puts you in the mood then selections from the Nutcracker are what do it for me. Because of that I sit there and think "I can't believe this is supposed to be for children."
Lucia from the Met with Netrebko singing will be broadcast on PBS Wednesday. I only read reviews about Villazon's shaky performance and her shaky E flat, but definitely plan on watching...
Speaking of sexy classics.
Ravel: Daphnis et Clohe
Ravel: Bolero
Mahler: Symphony # 10, First Movement
Wagner: Prelude and Leibestod from Tristan
Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome
Brahms: Piano Concerto # 2, Third Movement
What does it mean musically for a musical work to be "erotic" or "sexy"? Rather than just listing those examples, couldn't you explain why they cause that kind of associations? That would make this topic more interesting IMO, i think this board generally has perhaps a bit bad tendency towards pointless lists.
Bizet's Carmen
Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
Richard Strauss' Salome
J.S. Bach's Cantata 140 (especially the duet, Wann kommst du, mein Heil?)
Szymanowski's Song of the Night
A great deal of Puccini
Ravel's La Valse
A good deal of the songs by Faure, Debussy, Ravel, and other Impressionists.
I agree that Der Rosenkavalier would be on top of the sexy music, which is a combination of erotic, charming, passion and amusement.
Some of Chopin's Nocturnes (such as Op. 9 No. 2) would also be very sexy in style, especially good for a sensational night. Come to think of it: many of the romantic pieces tend to free your imagination......
More than a few people told me this piece sounded like she was getting into climax:
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