Ten concertos for orgasm and orchestra
OrchestrasSlipped Disc readers have offered multiple suggestions for live music that hits the spot. Here’s a top ten.
1 Prokofiev Piano Concerto no.1 op.10 First Movement.
2 Malcolm Arnold: Toy Symphony
3 Beethoven’s Erotica and Past-oral
4 Rachmaninov 2nd piano concerto
5 Jacob Druckman’s “Valentine” for solo double bass
6 Nielsen 5th symphony, 1st movement
7 Langgard’s 1st symphony
8 Franz Schmidt Symphony N°4, first movement.
9 Howard Hanson 2nd symphony (the composer had an O while conducting it)
10 Danse Generale from Ravel Daphnis Et Chloe
Keep ’em coming.
Good luck with this list.
I don’t think anyone is getting seduced by a solo bass work.
But the Toy Symphony will work even if it means having to listen to Malcolm Arnold.
And in the morning, the Haydn Farewell Symphony (before he/she/they wake up) is a favorite of course.
Leave by way of the Balcony like Romeo.
He is having so much fun with this he’s completely forgotten that he has a very entertaining book out today.
Please give this a rest
Norm has become a clickbait merchant, gone are the days of quality investigative journalism in these hallowed halls.
Tragic…
How could we forget Prokofiev’s 3rd Symphony “The Fiery Angel”?
https://youtu.be/NLZQ22p8MnU?t=7043
I prefer another translation that adds a gay angle: The Flaming Angel.
..or as at the Aix-en-Provence Festival a few years ago, “L’Ange de Feu” became “L’Ange de Jeu” – the Angel of Games; obviously a blunder by the poofreaders.
Except that it’s an opera and not a symphony.
The Brahms double concerto for sure
I would enjoy the Beethoven Triple even more.
Pur ti miro from Poppaea. Far more erogenous than anything the symphonists could knock off.
For those with a tantric intention there is Henze’s ‘The tedious way to the house of Natasha Unguhuer”
Ungeheuer
Thanks for the correction.
Salome, dance of the seven veils
Maxwell Davies:
Resurrection
The two fiddlers
Orkney Wedding, with climactic bagpipes.
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
Arnold Bax – “Spring Fire” Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UViIGvRTg4k
…and “Nympholept”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2c_UnAP2Aw
He must have had it bad.
Surely any number of horn concerti would qualify?
The hornier the better.
Dr Haydn…
31 D-Dur „Hornsignal“
– Blow my mind!
49 f-Moll „La Passione“
– Prelude included.
55 Es-Dur „Der Schulmeister“
– Down on your knees!
59 A-Dur „Feuer“
– Put it out!
60 C-Dur „Il distratto“
– Now don’t get distracted!
96 D-Dur „Le Miracle“
– We arrived together!
Opening of Rosenkavalier, obviously. The Liebestod, if one can wait that long.
Wrong part of Ravel’s Daphnis – surely they meant the ‘lever du jour’ section?
Arne’s ‘Where the bee sucks, there suck I’?’
Rachmaninoff used to say, wryly, that his 18th Variation on the Theme of Paganini was composed for his manager to achieve commercial success. The ebb and flow of the music certainly conforms to the ocean wave metaphor. Broadly speaking, I heard Artur Rubinstein say in an interview that there is a certain sensuous element in playing Rachmaninoff’s music.
Does Respighi qualify?
Fontane di Roma
Penis of Rome
Carmina Burana where the soprano has an actual orgasm.
4’33?
Only in Switzerland after 7.30pm
Schulhoff: Sonata Erotica, an obvious choice…..
Just noticed that Muti seems to focus on the orgasmic repertoire of Prokofiev, Scriabin, and Respighi.
Bantock: “Sappho”….two female orgasms at once!
Rimsky-Korsakov, “Scheherazade”.
Evidence for the Hanson story?
I heard it straight from Mr. Diamond’s mouth. (He was a good friend and a ranconteur without barriers.) He said he saw Hanson backstage immediately following a performance of the “Romantic” and the evidence was…well, visible.
Andrew Lloyd Webber:
“Make a Joyful Noise”