Help! Music to accompany dinner - tonight!

[Petrushka]

Mozart Serenades or Divertimenti, Handel Concerti Grosso all ideal for the purpose.

[Dave2002]

Try Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, followed by Shostakovich 10, then Dvorak American Quartet to recover!

You could throw in some Varese - maybe Offrandes in the middle - or how about some George Crumb - Ancient Voices of Children.

Mahler 5 or 9 might work - you choose which parts. The first movement of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony - which takes a long while to get going - boring or beautiful, depending on your point of view.

If your guests are really keen they'll listen, but the chances are either that none of them will, or that only one will, and there will be cries from someone in your family to "turn it down" - or "off"!

[Petrushka]

Or what about Richard Strauss's suite Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme the last movement of which is the Dinner.

[Don Petter]

Steer clear of the Saucerer's Apprentice - Could be a messy meal.

[ahinton]

There's the obvious Britten (with mint sauce)

Couldn't we have it without?

or
The Desert Music

...and the Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks from the work that a colleague and fellow composer calls Exhibitionists at the Pictures - and, while in that neck chop of the woods, The Love for Three Oranges, peut-être.

Not so sure about Gershwin's Catfish Roe, though.

[ahinton]

Or what about Richard Strauss's suite Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme the last movement of which is the Dinner.

Indeed - or, for that matter, Berkeley's A Dinner Engagement.

Ma Mère l'Oye, anyone?

[Serial_Apologist]

The first movement of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony - which takes a long while to get going - boring or beautiful, depending on your point of view.

Excellent recommendation for that after-meal snooze!

No one's suggested a Barber cue.

[ahinton]

Excellent recommendation for that after-meal snooze!

No one's suggested a Barber cue.

Well, YOU have, now! And, for those guests who've enjoyed themslves so much but are not in a fit state to drive home afterwards, they could always stay over and have the unalloyed pleasure of being served the first repast of the following day by a cereal apologist!...

[Don Petter]

No one's suggested a Barber cue.

Like Dover Sole Beach, the Capsicum Concerto, or Gnocchisville (Simmer ‘til 1915)?

[ahinton]

Anything else by Johann sea bass tian Bach?

Anything played by Julian Bream? - or Martha Aga-rich?

Gottschalk's Caprice Brill-ante?

Also from Exhibitionsts at the Pictures, The Great Skate Kiev?

[ahinton]

Like Dover Sole Beach, the Capsicum Concerto, or Gnocchisville (Simmer ‘til 1915)?

Or his slightly elder contemporary Carter's Une Morue on which to dwell?

[Serial_Apologist]

Anything else by Johann sea bass tian Bach?

Anything played by Julian Bream? - or Martha Aga-rich?

Gottschalk's Caprice Brill-ante?

Also from Exhibitionsts at the Pictures, The Great Skate Kiev?

Or "There's no Plaice Like Home" for after the guests have departed?

[ahinton]

Or "There's no Plaice Like Home" for after the guests have departed?

Indeed - but only after Arctic Monkeys' One for the road, surely? (and let's not forget Shaw's observation that "music is the brandy of the damned")...

[Beef Oven!]

Abba, anyone?

Perhaps their huge hit ChckenTikka, or whatever it was called?

[MrGongGong]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuvUaFp_qMQ

Or the obvious Orff ?