Classical Music

[BliarOut]

I'm looking around for some classical music tracks to burn to CD to ahem, drive to, honest to.

I love Saint Saens "Damse Macabre", the way it starts off gently, almost telling a story and ending up in a tumultous crescendo. Just perfect to, ahem drive to

Any classical buffs know any other good driving tracks?

Please don't turn it into a smut fest, it's a serious question, albeit with suspect motivation!

[zetec]

Years ago my dad had an album endorsed by Top Gear. IIRC it was called Top Gear driving classics. It has long been lost and we are talking over 10 years ago, it had the Ride of the valkyries and 1812 overture on it IIRC.

[alexkp]

Apart from the usual Holst, Wagner et al. I would recommend Rimsky-Korsakov "Scheherezade" which is fabulous.

Oh and buy this by young British Composer Gavin Greenaway.

www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001WRO1/qid=1110739338/sr=8-10/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i10_xgl/202-3848078-6087848

Or here it is on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=307&item=4709175960&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW


Ignore the Disney label - it is one of the very best pieces of modern classical I have ever heard. I guarantee you will love it (or your money back....)

It's great to drive to and very uplifting and energising.

>> Edited by alexkp on Sunday 13th March 18:48

[Hilts]

How about Prokofiev's March of the Capulets, quite an apt driving, as you say, track as it's from Romeo and Juliet.

Best avoided though if you or your passenger are Toon fans.

[mybrainhurts]

Windows down.....

Wick right up......

Wagner...Ride of the Valkyries........

Always gets the chavs running for cover.......they think you're an attack Huey.........

[ATG]

Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony (#6) ... more cruise than hoon. Mussorgsky's Night on a Bald Mountain?

[TripleS]

Beethoven's 5th Symphony - a nice positive piece of music.

If you can find the one by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Wyn Morris, you may like that.

I always think there's something rather inspiring about one of the world's great symphony orchestras in full flight.

Best wishes all,
Dave.

[c c]

I find Blue Danube is good for night driving. A nice Mozart piano concerto in heavy traffic or how about Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (the Oman theme) brilliant for a twisty A road.

The whole genre is far too wide really. You need to listen to Classic FM for a while and find out what you like. Or if your not that wrapped up with Classic music check out Classic fmTV on SKY. They play some good contemporary music as well as pure classical stuff.

[parrot of doom]

Mozart:

Piano Concerto in D Minor
Mass in C Minor, K 427 Kyrie

Fantastic music for driving.

[selmer]

Barber's Concerto for Violin & Orchestra Op. 14 is gorgeous. For whatever you may be doing.

[2 Smokin Barrels]

parrot of doom said:

Mozart: Honda Concerto in Morris Minor Moss in C Minor, K 427 Kylie Fantastic music for driving.

[julianhj]

For me, listening to a few classical pieces whilst driving the Griff are among my favourite memories of that car (suitable scenery and driving vigour were also a key feature):

- Holst's Jupiter, The Bringer of Jolity from the Planet Suite
- Beethoven's Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9 Finale
- Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries

[BliarOut]

Thanks folks, I think Hilts and Selmer spotted I was talking about ahem, cough, driving as opposed to actual driving so Romeo and Juliet would be a good start

Perhaps save flight of the valkyeries for the last track

Any more suggestions of powerful orchestral tracks gratefully received

Having said that, there is nothing like a good classical accompaniment to a hoon.... Somehow it makes my driving smoother as I try to match the curves to the orchestra

[julianhj]

BliarOut said:

Thanks folks, I think Hilts and Selmer spotted I was talking about ahem, cough, driving as opposed to actual driving so Romeo and Juliet would be a good start Perhaps save flight of the valkyeries for the last track Any more suggestions of powerful orchestral tracks gratefully received Having said that, there is nothing like a good classical accompaniment to a hoon.... Somehow it makes my driving smoother as I try to match the curves to the orchestra

... .... ...

The penny drops

[wedge girl]

Beethovens Moonlight sonata.

Tocatta in Fuge in Dm.Good organ music

Rachmaninov piano preludes.

Vavaldi's Four Seasons

[2 Smokin Barrels]

wedge girl said:

Good organ music

I think you've sussed him!

[DanBoy]

wedge girl said:

Beethovens Moonlight sonata.

Call it classical "anthem bashing" if you like, but I think this is probably the most beautiful piece of music ever written.

Check out some Philip Glass violin concertos. They all sound a bit similar but some are absolute stonkers (Concerto no.2 is my favourite).

HMV sell some good classical CDs at the next-to-nothing price of £4.99 each.

[alexkp]

BliarOut said:

Thanks folks, I think Hilts and Selmer spotted I was talking about ahem, cough, driving as opposed to actual driving so Romeo and Juliet would be a good start Perhaps save flight of the valkyeries for the last track Any more suggestions of powerful orchestral tracks gratefully received Having said that, there is nothing like a good classical accompaniment to a hoon.... Somehow it makes my driving smoother as I try to match the curves to the orchestra

Make sure you get that CD I indicated above. The let me know how much you like it...

[c c]

BliarOut said:

Thanks folks, I think Hilts and Selmer spotted I was talking about ahem, cough, driving

Oh right. In that case Ludovico Einaudi is the man of the moment.

Echoes: The Einaudi Collection.

[NiceCupOfTea]

I guess you'll be wanting music that's either very rhythmic or with some kind of "climax"

You could do a lot worse than Stravinsky - bits of the Rite of Spring, perhaps? Prokoviev as suggested also very rhythmic. Holst's Planets, any film music by John Williams...

I suppose the obvious one is Ravel's Bolero, last movement of Beethoven 9 ("Ode to Joy"), Zadok the Priest by Handel (it's about 2 minutes long, so you should be able to do it twice! ), Mahler & Bruckner last movements. The opening of Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier is actually a description of sex! Horn "whoops" are supposed to be him shooting his load!!

Also try to the Adagietto from Mahler 5 That's maybe for something a bit more special