Music to clean to

[Constantbee]

Strauss waltzes

[LezLee]

Back in the 50s/60s I used to do the housework for my mum on my morning off and used to listen to the TV Ceefax music when I was polishing 'the surround' (remember that?). It sounded like ballet music but I'd never heard it anywhere else.
Many years later, doing some housework in my own house, I heard it again on R3's (much missed) Listeners' Requests. It was asked for by someone else who'd also loved it on Ceefax. It is indeed ballet music and is from Ambroise Thomas's 'Hamlet'. I found it on a CD of lesser known ballet music and am a happy bunny!

[MickyD]

For me it has to be something that gets the adrenalin going....I find this disc of Suppé overtures recorded by Charles Dutoit very motivating.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/917xV2WQI4L._SS500_.jpg

[Bryn]

Depends on how much cleaning is called for. L'apprenti sorcier spring(clean)s to mind.

[Dave2002]

For clothes, don't you need an Irish Washerwoman?

Or of course there are nursery rhymes - Rub a dub dub ....

I always assumed it was something to do with cleaning, but it seems it may have had some other connotations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub-a-dub-dub

[Bryn]

For clothes, don't you need an Irish Washerwoman? . . .

Surely Eine blasse Wäscherin would do?

[gradus]

I can never hear music over the racket from our vacuum cleaner, do others have silent machines?

[ahinton]

I can never hear music over the racket from our vacuum cleaner, do others have silent machines?

Whilst some vacuum cleaners make more noise than others, there are such things as noise cancelling headsets...

[Serial_Apologist]

Surely Eine blasse Wäscherin would do?

Not a scrubber, definitely not a scrubber.

[Maclintick]

These Slovenians are far from slovenly appliance-wranglers...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bHB3F6o3AY

[Petrushka]

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

[Padraig]

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

[ardcarp]

[cloughie]

Dvorak 5 and 6.

Kertesz?

[visualnickmos]

Kertesz?

I think he's more suited to doing the gardening to !
(Linguists will know what I mean......)