Music to clean to

[Barbirollians]

In the booklet note to his recent Wien album Jonas Kaufmann suggests he used to clean when a student to Die Fledermaus as it cheered him through boring chores .

I shall try that this morning as I attack the bomb site that is my office but what music do you clean to ? When I was at university a friend who I shared a house with insisted that country music was best .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Surely it has to be "Calling All Workers" by Eric Coates. My mother used to clean to "Music While Your Work" in the 1950s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP1Ch1FVGhs

[cloughie]

In the booklet note to his recent Wien album Jonas Kaufmann suggests he used to clean when a student to Die Fledermaus as it cheered him through boring chores .

I shall try that this morning as I attack the bomb site that is my office but what music do you clean to ? When I was at university a friend who I shared a house with insisted that country music was best .

I could suggest Elmore James ‘Dust my (b)room’, or The Coasters ‘Yakety Yak’. Spring Cleaning - then Schumann 1, I guess you need bright cheerful music to lift you from the tedium of the task - Schubert 5, Mozart P&Wind Quintet K452, Divertimento 17 K334, Tomita’s Debussy and then sing along to Peter Skellern’s Astaire album. There the morning’s tasks are done! You could add in Haydn 101/2. For the afternoon some longer symphonies - Elgar 1/2, Mahler 4, Rachmaninov 2 and Tchaik Manfred.

PS my Office/Music Room needs much attention too, but being retired I’m too busy!

[Petrushka]

'There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.' - Quentin Crisp.

[cloughie]

Surely it has to be "Calling All Workers" by Eric Coates. My mother used to clean to "Music While Your Work" in the 1950s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP1Ch1FVGhs

Yes but wasn’t that just 15 minutes morning and afternoon?

[Serial_Apologist]

The American jazz singer Mark Murphy described Miles Davis's Bitches Brew to us as "Music to do your hooverin' to". I had to apologise!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Yes but wasn’t that just 15 minutes morning and afternoon?

Yes; you had to work quickly.

[cloughie]

Yes; you had to work quickly.

I don’t know the scale of Barb’s bomb-site but I think that maybe more time might need to be allocated but it reminds me that a Double CFP CD of Coates (Groves/Mackerras/Kilbey) was an early CD acquisition of mine - I must dig it out and have another listen!

[ahinton]

Som Suk to aid the vacuum cleaning? Some Blow to get rid of the dust? Ken Warner's Scrub, brother, scrub? A track by the SqueeGees? Something by Dyson? Szymanowski's Variations on a Polish Folk Theme, Op.10, for piano? Rebecca Clarke's Yeats setting The Cloths of Heaven?...

[Serial_Apologist]

Som Suk to aid the vacuum cleaning? Some Blow to get rid of the dust? Ken Warner's Scrub, brother, scrub? A track by the SqueeGees? Something by Dyson? Szymanowski's Variations on a Polish Folk Theme, Op.10, for piano? Rebecca Clarke's Yeats setting The Cloths of Heaven?...

By the way (off-topic alert) re flooding, how are things in your part of the world?

[ahinton]

By the way (off-topic alert) re flooding, how are things in your part of the world?

Thank you kindly for asking. OK where I am although occasionally stranded by flooded roads in the vicinity - and no damage done, fortunately, as has been the case worryingly close to me. Winds 60-70kph most of the time today but very little rain.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thank you kindly for asking. OK where I am although occasionally stranded by flooded roads in the vicinity - and no damage done, fortunately, as has been the case worryingly close to me. Winds 60-70kph most of the time today but very little rain.

[oddoneout]

I don’t know the scale of Barb’s bomb-site but I think that maybe more time might need to be allocated but it reminds me that a Double CFP CD of Coates (Groves/Mackerras/Kilbey) was an early CD acquisition of mine - I must dig it out and have another listen!

I just bought that in a job lot(10 for £1) from the Children's Society shop this morning! From that stack I've listened to a brass band compilation and have on at the mo' a L'Oiseau Lyre AAM/Hogweed which has just started what is listed as Rebel 'Le Cahos'( I think that should be Le Chaos?) which seems appropriate to the topic.
Housework needs something upbeat so I don't stop to listen and dream, and 'noisy' enough to cope with moving around between rooms; something I can sing along to is a bonus.

[BBMmk2]

Surely it has to be "Calling All Workers" by Eric Coates. My mother used to clean to "Music While Your Work" in the 1950s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP1Ch1FVGhs

A favourite of MrsBbm’s.

[Alison]

Dvorak 5 and 6.