Is there anything more erotic than Scriabin?

[Albion]

Try Schreker's operas Die Gezeichneten (1918) or Der Schatzgraber (1920) - the erotically charged Prelude to a Drama (based on the former) and the Symphonic Interlude from the latter are both available on a great disc from Chandos -



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[lescamil]

What about the Rite of Spring? I'm not sure if that has been mentioned yet, but I've met various people who use it as great, um, doing the deed music.

[cilgwyn]

Or slap on a bit of Blossom Dearie!

NB: Sex to 'The Rite of Spring'? Ouch!!!! What about d***g it to 'Mars' (The Planets)?
      Or a 'Gothic Symphony' marathon?

[MDL]

What about the Rite of Spring? I'm not sure if that has been mentioned yet, but I've met various people who use it as great, um, doing the deed music.

Dear God, imagine the bruises!

I thought that people who enjoyed musical stimulation whilst doing the nasty tended to go for Ravel's Bolero; a slow recording, presumably. I don't think too many people could keep their thrusts in sync with, say, Munch/BSO.

[MDL]

      Or a 'Gothic Symphony' marathon?

Why not go the whole hog and bonk your way through Tristan und Isolde? "OK, darling, we're going to need a triple dose of Viagra and a hell of a lot of lube."

[Lethevich]

I thought that people who enjoyed musical stimulation whilst doing the nasty tended to go for Ravel's Bolero; a slow recording, presumably. I don't think too many people could keep their thrusts in sync with, say, Munch/BSO.

Sean would follow this line of thought, with his constant equating of the music of Philip Glass with sex and such...

[karlhenning]

Faugh! He certainly would.

[cilgwyn]

The Rite of Spring followed by Plaster of Paris,

[DavidW]

I don't think too many people could keep their thrusts in sync with, say, Munch/BSO.

The way I'm feeling I would need someone like Celibidache conducting!

[MDL]

The way I'm feeling I would need someone like Celibidache conducting!

Same here, although I don't think I could manage 18 minutes. Prod me awake when the trombone kicks in.

[Ten thumbs]

I don't play Scriabin as much as I used to. I confess to being somewhat blown away by him in my teens but not for his eroticism, if that's what it is. I've always felt his music to be other-worldly, which is perhaps the opposite extreme. Maybe this is an occasion where poles meet. Anyway, I do see what you mean.
The most erotic piece of piano music in my collection is Bonis' 'Narcisse' and there's always the sinuous, snaky, oriental finale to her flute sonata, but then she was a woman with a dark secret.

[cilgwyn]

Next time I have a b**** it's definately 'Winter Legends' for me. Although,I'll miss out on the first movement. By the time we get to that colossal climax (Boom! Boom!) in the third movement where Bax goes completely off his rocker and the orchestras roaring away at full throttle we'll be...(CENSORED!)......
Bax was bloomin' sex mad,he was (Winter Legends,my foot,more like 'Steamy Legends!).
There should be a warning sticker on the front!

[Popov]

Several of Maria de Alvear's works have rather erotic titles: Sexo, Sexo compacto, Vagina, Sexo puro, Erotica...

[ibanezmonster]

What about the Rite of Spring? I'm not sure if that has been mentioned yet, but I've met various people who use it as great, um, doing the deed music.

I heard an interview (probably youtube) where some lady said it was "sexy." I think only women would find it that way, because they just want to be dominated.

I don't really hear any music as "erotic." Scriabin comes the closest, but I think more of wizardry, demon summoning, dark stuff, etc. with him. With Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, that comes pretty close. However, it's more like an expression of being in love, or having a dream of a girl or something.

[lescamil]

Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 4 is perhaps a good choice for an erotic piece. I read that the first movement is a musical depiction of foreplay and that the second movement is the deed itself, complete with an explosive climax at the end.

[Popov]

http://www.youtube.com/v/VJpowNuSXMk

Scriabin may be erotic, but Saint-Saëns is hardcore

[TheGSMoeller]

I nominate Beethoven's "Erotica" Symphony no. 3.   

[eyeresist]

Frankly, none of this stuff gives me the horn. [/Derek & Clive]

[Florestan]

I heard an interview (probably youtube) where some lady said it was "sexy." I think only women would find it that way, because they just want to be dominated.

Have you been on an Otto Weininger dose lately? 

On topic: if "erotic" means "sexually arousing" then no music whatsoever does the trick for me, least of all Scriabin (or Wagner, for that matter). 

[DavidW]

I think only women would find it that way, because they just want to be dominated.

Speaketh Don Greg-ovanni.

now whip it
into shape
shape it up
get straight
go forward
move ahead
try to detect it
it's not too late
to whip it
whip it good