# SDMB Guide to Classical Music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2015, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guide-to-classical-music/733118 "2015-10-01T08:06:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guide-to-classical-music/733118/21 "2015-10-02T15:17:18Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Not sexy, but I’m on a French Baroque kick at the moment: Lully, De Lalande, Fuxx, etc. and the jokes just write themselves ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guide-to-classical-music/733118/22 "2015-10-02T15:21:58Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > While I do enjoy Holst, I’m not sure I could make love to that. Might hurt something with all the rhythmic pounding, beating, etc. (Plus I would probably be trying to tap along) Well, that’s kind of the idea. 😃 Though the OP did specify “making love.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guide-to-classical-music/733118/23 "2015-10-02T15:38:38Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > and the jokes just write themselves All the Johann Fux jokes were probably tapped out a few centuries ago. See also: Heinrich Schütz and Samuel Scheidt. ---
**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 2, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guide-to-classical-music/733118/24 "2015-10-02T16:00:03Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > and the jokes just write themselves I was hoping for an ISWYDT… ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guide-to-classical-music/733118/25 "2015-10-02T16:11:25Z")
I saw what you did there, **Quartz**. I saw. I once sequenced Ravel’s _Bolero_ note by note into notational software. IANAM, but it came out not completely terrible, except for one unfortunate pitch bend I was never able to nail down. I’ve often wondered, do musicians get, hmm, bored or disinterested when performing _Bolero_? I’m thinking in particular of the plucking strings and the poor drummers. ---
**Author:** ![Evin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guide-to-classical-music/733118/26 "2015-10-02T20:51:51Z")
The second movement (Larghetto/Romance) of Chopin’s Piano Concerto #1 does it for me. This Zimerman interpretation is astonishing IMO: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Iv2JJc-Qc) at about 23:17 ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guide-to-classical-music/733118/27 "2015-10-03T00:58:27Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > _Scheherazade_ by Rimsky-Korsakov Yeah, either that, or _[The Ecstasy of Gold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-rHdSWZLpQ)_ by Morricone. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guide-to-classical-music/733118/28 "2015-10-03T06:45:02Z")
You might consider Erik Satie’s **Gymnopedie #1**. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guide-to-classical-music/733118/29 "2015-10-03T16:01:24Z")
> [@jimbuff314](#): > > I’ve often wondered, do musicians get, hmm, bored or disinterested when performing _Bolero_? I’m thinking in particular of the plucking strings and the poor drummers. Yes. I knew a trumpeter who found it hard to concentrate on his very simple part. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guide-to-classical-music/733118/30 "2015-10-03T18:12:29Z")
[Epic version of Bolero](https://youtu.be/igWt_WnqmUw?t=2m). The best. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-guide-to-classical-music/733118.md?page=1)