A bit of trivia on Holst's The Planets. Mars was written shortly before the outbreak of World War I in 1914. WWI is the first war in which submachine guns were widely used. If you listen to the percussion, it sounds like machine-gun fire.

And yes, there is classical music that is very well-suited to...uhhh...carnal encounters. Listen to "O Fortuna" from Orff's Carmina Burana. Or The Love Dance from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. Or "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber. Or "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Or the "Air" from Bach's Orchestral Suite #3. Or "Scheherazade" by Rimsky-Korsakov. Or...the ultimate cliché (which doesn't mean it isn't good) -- Ravel's "Bolero."

Not that I've used any of that, of course.

Excellent. Where's Laurel?

i WAS happily asleep.

brahms' cello sonatas and bach's cello suites, duuuh.

and schubert. sex to classical music sounds like something out of a bad romance novel, by the way.
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If you can time the orgasm right i am sure the 1812 would fit quite well

J.S. Bach in particular was an incredible talent.

Understatement of the millennium.

Stravinsky.
Bach.
Mussorgsky.
Brahms.
Mozart.
Beethoven.
Schubert.
Paganini
Prokofiev.
Eno.
Mahler.
Satie.
Fauré.

There are so many!

By;
Karajan.
Bernstein.
Muti.
Both Labèque's.
Mariner.
Yoyo Ma.
Callas.
Eno.
Haiting
Schwarzkopf.
Mutter.
Kronos Quartet.