# Classical music to blast from your car speakers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2005, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870 "2005-10-12T10:13:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/21 "2005-10-12T14:32:01Z")
Mozart’s requiem, specifically, his Dies Irae. “Siegfried’s Funeral” by Wagner. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/22 "2005-10-12T16:27:20Z")
Gorecki’s second symphony is something I’ve been guilty of blasting from my car on numerous occasions ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/23 "2005-10-12T16:43:13Z")
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Liszt comes to mind for that driving virtuoso feeling that you just want everyone to know about. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/24 "2005-10-12T16:50:02Z")
I guess **The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies** is right out… ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/25 "2005-10-12T17:04:28Z")
I second Jupiter from The Planets. Also, Mozart’s overture from “Don Giovanni” and the Queen of the Night’s aria from “The Magic Flute”. How about some Gilbert and Sullivan: “Loudly let the trumpets bray” from Iolanthe, and “If you want to know who we are” from The Mikado. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/26 "2005-10-12T17:10:54Z")
Oh, yeah, Sousa! With most car systems biased toward bass, try **J.S. Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello** Yo-Yo Ma has done these twice, and I recommend the earlier set, with his youthful exuberance. Man, he really cooks! **Mozart’s Violin Concertos, #3 and #5.** Everybody’s done these. I like Stern and Menuhin. **Beethoven’s Third Symphony, and his only Violin Concerto** Oh, baby. Ludwig really knew how to get the most horsepower out of an orchestra. Zam. **The Trout Quintet** Again, the bass. **Edgar Meyer’s The Trout Variations** The Trout on acid. Manny Ax felt worn out when this was over. **Frank Zappa’s Peaches En Regalia** The Turtle Island folks did this, but I think Frank did it better on _Hot Rats._ ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/27 "2005-10-12T17:26:54Z")
Since pretty much all of my favorites have been mentioned already, I’ll add _Funeral March for a Marionette_, aka “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour” theme, Beethoven’s Fifth, and, um…that one Mozart violin concerto heard at the beginning of _Amadeus_. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/28 "2005-10-12T17:33:57Z")
**Charpentier’s Prelude to Te Deum** ---
**Author:** ![Olive\_The\_Other\_Reindeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Olive\_The\_Other\_Reindeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olive_The_Other_Reindeer)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/29 "2005-10-12T17:37:41Z")
How about Schumann’s “Koncertstuck for 4 Horns and Orchestra”? If you’ve never heard it, it’s worth a listen! Olive ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/30 "2005-10-12T18:40:23Z")
Anything ballet. Music from Balanchine’s Stravinsky ballets might be really cool. The Nutcracker also strikes as a fun choice. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/31 "2005-10-12T19:47:17Z")
Damn, everyone’s beating me (Wagner, Mussorgsky). I haven’t heard Tannhauser Overture yet. Or the Ox Cart. As a geek I have to suggest One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy VII. Basically, think if all of _Carima Burina_ sounded like O Fortuna. _Estunas interus/ ira vehementi! Sephiroth!_ ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/32 "2005-10-12T20:32:06Z")
Debussy - “Fetes”, nocturne for orchestra. “La Mer”, especially the last movement. Ravel - from “Daphnis and Chloe” - warrior dance at the beginning of act 2 (end of the first suite), daybreak, and bacchanal at the end. Liszt - Totentanz ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/33 "2005-10-12T23:03:46Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > And as long as we are on Saint-Saens, throw on a little \*\*Danse Macabre \*\* as well. Danse Macabre? Fun song, but for blasting I’d go with Danse Bacchanale. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/34 "2005-10-12T23:33:46Z")
Some Mahlerian choral pieces: the final few minutes of the Symphony No 2 (_Resurrection_) and the finale to part one of the Symphony No 8 (_Symphony of a Thousand_). ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/35 "2005-10-13T00:49:33Z")
> [@Windwalker](#): > > Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Liszt comes to mind for that driving virtuoso feeling that you just want everyone to know about. That belongs in a thread about music that makes you think of Bugs Bunny 🙂 But it is a good driving song. Better than that, however, is _Romainian Rhapsody #1_ by Enescu. It rocks with some of the hottest bluegrass sounding fiddle, er, _violin_ work in classical music. It also is better if you have the best recording of that piece available. Daniel Barenboim recorded a live album with the Berlin Symphony after “The Wall” came down. It is an incredibly alive, happy classical music sampler. The joint was jumpin," and the album really vibrates. (It also has _Hungarian Rhapsody_ on it.) But it tends to make me drive too fast. It’s also VERY hard to find. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/36 "2005-10-13T01:00:38Z")
STRAUSS, J - Thunder & Lightning or Tisch-Tasch polka WAGNER - Flying Dutchman overture VERDI - The Toast from Ernami TCHAICOVSKY - Marche Slave or March from Nutcracker ROSSINI - Make way for the topman of the city (la la la la la la la la la laaaaa) from The Barber Of Seville ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/37 "2005-10-13T04:36:01Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Anything ballet. Music from Balanchine’s Stravinsky ballets might be really cool. They were Stravinsky’s before they were Balanchine’s . . . But, yeah. Stravinsky is always good to blast from the car stereo. Especially _Le Sacre du printemps_. Also, go for Mahler. Or Bruckner. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/38 "2005-10-13T04:38:55Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > ROSSINI - Make way for the topman of the city (la la la la la la la la la laaaaa) from The Barber Of Seville That would be _Largo al factotum_. Good choice! ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/39 "2005-10-13T04:44:24Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Bach’s **Toccata and Fugue in D Minor** , Wiedor’s **Toccata from Symphony No. 5** > > Organ is like the heavy metal of classical music 🙂 > > More? Dammit, you stole my top two. (But IIRC, it is _Widor_.)And I agree about the organ. I’ll add **Ein Straussfest** , especially if you have the 1500 Watt dual-subwoofer setup. ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/40 "2005-10-13T04:46:34Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > If you mean Spring from **Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons** then you’d be better off listening to Winter (from the same suite). It’s much more driving than Spring is, and far less cliche. I know there’s a remixed version of it online (saw an Anime Music Video set to the remix) but I don’t know the name of the remix. I’m pretty sure you mean Vanessa Mae’s _Storm_. It’s very techno-influenced, very dynamic, and seems like good raging music. It’s awesome driving music, yes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870.md?page=3)