Pieces that set your teeth on edge

[EdgeleyRob]

LvB 9.
Well not all of it,just from when the singing starts

[Barbirollians]

Carmina Burana - absolute jackbooted tosh of the first order .

Anything of the squeaky door, banging a metal tray , scraping a bow down the music stand school .

Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto - because he writes a heartstoppingly beautiful tune in the slow movement and then does nothing with it . Always such a disappointment .

[Beef Oven!]

LvB 9.
Well not all of it,just from when the singing starts

That's the best bit

[Don Petter]

Not old Archie Pellago of the Orkneys??

No - I was referring to Mehitabel's friend.

[Roehre]

LvB 9.
Well not all of it,just from when the singing starts

Two of us behind the sofa, ts ?

[Roehre]

Carmina Burana - absolute jackbooted tosh of the first order . .

but given its popularity it looks like the Nazis eventually won this bit

[Beef Oven!]

but given its popularity it looks like the Nazis eventually won this bit

Marvellous music of the first (new?) order!

Could do with a bit of editing down to around 20 minutes, then it'd be a real winner

Happily, it's not about politics, it's about music, so the Nazis did not win anything here

[Pulcinella]

The shepherd on the rock: that clarinet/voice combination really grates! An instant turn-off.

[Serial_Apologist]

I forgot to mention the tasteless bombastic "triumphal" climaxes in Liszt's symphonic poems, eg Les Preludes. The older I get, the less enamelled I am of musical triumphalism in general. When the proletariat seizes power, a lone shaluhachi player will save on a lot of unnecessary spending.

[Barbirollians]

but given its popularity it looks like the Nazis eventually won this bit

I remember once borrowing a copy of it from a friend when all I knew of it was the Old Spice theme tune. It was an HMV Greensleeves record with Fruhbeck de Burgos which I understand is a renowned recording and even the sleeve note writer evidently didn't like its motor rhythms with their jackboots and tanks on the move !

I have always disliked it - once foolish enough to be persuaded to go to a concert with David Atherton conducting it on HK in the 1990s - never again I swore after that .

I am surprised Reggie Goodall didn't take it up - right up his street .

[VodkaDilc]

Apologies in advance: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen. Can't explain why.

But great to play!! I loved trying to play it as a teenager - especially the impressive-sounding, but not difficult, bars where the same chords are played up and down the keyboard, just before the recap of the main tune.

[VodkaDilc]

The music of Glass, Reich, Nyman, Einaudi, etc, doesn't set my teeth on edge—just bore me—.

Hang on!! Surely you can't bracket the achievements of the first three with the last. (I can't even bring myself to type his name!)

(Sorry I see that this point has already been made.)

[VodkaDilc]

Carmina Burana - absolute jackbooted tosh of the first order .

..but great fun to perform, which I've done as a singer, pianist and conductor (not all at the same time.)

[jean]

Great fun both to perform and to listen to - and I can't hear the politics in the music

[Don Petter]

I have always disliked it - once foolish enough to be persuaded to go to a concert with David Atherton conducting it on HK in the 1990s - never again I swore after that.

I remember swearing the same thing. (Not in relation to CB, which I rather like and have no political worries about, I mean any other concert conducted by DA.)