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#1 ·
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?
 
#4 ·
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.
 
#7 ·
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...
 
#10 ·
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.
 
#16 ·
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."
 
#28 ·
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.
 
#30 ·
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.
 
#35 ·
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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