Those wrestling with what music to play as they re-enact those uber explicit sex scenes from the literary juggernaut that is Fifty Shades of Grey, worry no more! The CD to listen to in your “Red Room Of Pain” is getting a digital release ahead of the CD release so y’all can get to fucking! For the dom/ sub in your life!
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fifty Shades of Grey – The Classical Album will be digitally releases on August 21 ahead of the CD’s arrival in stores on September 18. EMI Classics, which is releasing the album, credits the books with the recent Classical music sales boost, citing Thomas Tallis’ 16th century “Spem in Alium” topping British charts after being referenced in the book.
“I am thrilled that the classical pieces that inspired me while I wrote the Fifty Shades Trilogy are being brought together in one collection for all lovers of the books to enjoy,” said James of the album.
Here’s the full track list:
1. Lakmé (Act I): Flower Duet (Mady Mesplé, Danielle Millet)
2. Bach: Adagio from Concerto #3 BWV 974 (Alexandre Tharaud)
3. Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasilerias #5 – Cantilena (Barbara Hendricks)
4. Verdi: La Traviata Prelude (Riccardo Muti / Philharmonia Orchestra)
5. Pachelbel: Canon in D (Sir Neville Marriner/ Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields)
6. Tallis: Spem in Alium (The Tallis Scholars)
7. Chopin: Prelude #4 in E minor, Largo (Samson François)
8. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2 – Adagio Sostenuto (Cecile Ousset, Sir Simon Rattle / CBSO)
9. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Sir Adrian Boult / LPO)
10. Canteloube: Chants d’auvergne, Bailero (Arleen Auger)
11. Chopin: Nocturne #1 in B-flat minor (Samson François)
12. Faure: Requiem – In Paradisum (Choir of King’s College, Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury)
13. Bach: Goldberg Variation – Aria (Maria Tipo)
14. Debussy: La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin (Moura Lympany)
15. Bach: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (Alexis Weissenberg)
What – no instrumental versions of Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire” or Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m on Fire?!”
What are your thoughts? Will you be buying into this Fifty Shades inspired madness? Did you read the book? We did (basically so you wouldn’t have to.)
