Hey, is Queen considered classical music yet? If so, always keep a CD with the Bicycle Song queued up on it in your car stereo, when you see someone riding a bike on the side of the road, drop the windows, hit play, and crank it up as you go past the cool bike dude.
It’s Widor with an umlaut over the i, and I couldn’t be arsed to look up the alt-code keystroke, hence the fussy e as I believe the umlaut stands in for an elided e. But I could be wrong.
Beethoven’s Symphony No 9, especially the 4th movement. There’s something empowering about cruising down the highway singing in German at the top of one’s lungs.
The Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor.
The Toreador Song from Carmen.
wow, i think nearly all my favorites have already been named – Wagner, Enesco, 1812, Pictures at an Exhibition, Funeral March for a Marionette…
how about a road trip
oh, wait! i remember another one now – Light Cavalry Overture. it’s wonderful to blast from the speakers, and even better to sing during a good canter on horseback.