Pieces that set your teeth on edge

[LeMartinPecheur]

John Johnson's (1550-1594) A Dump. A fine lute duet, I have versions by Paul O'Dette and Jakob Lindberg, and Christopher Wilson and Shirley Rumsey.

I see there's an anonymous piece called My Lady Carey's Dumpe

[MrGongGong]

Denis Smalley: vortex



that's what I call clever marketing

(it's a great piece n all )

[richardfinegold]

I love Mahler's 3rd and 7th Symphonies, which have been nominated in this thread, but I don't think I'd break a sweat if the 8th suddenly disappeared from the Planet. And whenever I listen to virtually everything by the Second Viennese School I find myself appreciating it intellectually without actually enjoying it.

[Lento]

whenever I listen to virtually everything by the Second Viennese School I find myself appreciating it intellectually without actually enjoying it.

Must be nice to have a brain!

[Barbirollians]

There is a difference between not enjoying it much and not missing a piece if it did not exist and it putting your teeth on edge .

I would not for example be devastated if all the copies in the world of Saint Saen's Piano Concerto No3 disappeared but it does not put my teeth on edge .

[Beef Oven!]

Denis Smalley: vortex



that's what I call clever marketing

(it's a great piece n all )

Since we're now on the subject of great music, here's some more.....

[arancie33]

Zadok the Priest - smug, pompous and self satisfied. As someone mentioned on another thread, they slipped it out without announcement the other morning so I had to rush across the room to hit the off switch. Bad for me.

[Despina dello Stagno]

Pepys, when visiting Windsor with his wife on 26th February, 1666 was treated to a private performance in the Chapel Royal of Dr William Child's service in D major; the "Sharp service". That leaves a sour taste in my mouth (although sometimes I find Bach J.S.'s Coffee Can tarter).

Motets from the Promptuarii musici anthologies (1611-1617) by the likes of Gregorio Zucchini, Giovanni Battista Gnocchi, Andrea Saladdi (all washed down with Constanzo Porta and Annibale Perini).

Any suites (French, Italian or incidental)

And other pieces that make me feel down in the mouth are: Bridge works, Pull'em Humfrey (whom Pepys considered a diuretic), Claudio Monteverdi's "Poppy's Crowning". And not forgetting (since architecture may be termed frozen music) dentil cornices.


Aaaaah.

[DracoM]

Tchaikovsky - Capriccio Italienne

[Stanfordian]

Two nominations for cringeworthy works:
Toy Symphony attrib Leopold Mozart,
Rossini: Cat Duet,

[Black Swan]

Two nominations for cringeworthy works:
Toy Symphony attrib Leopold Mozart,
Rossini: Cat Duet,

I totally agree, Rossini: Cat Duet....no,no,no

[MrGongGong]

I totally agree, Rossini: Cat Duet....no,no,no

I thought I had managed to forget this pile of cats**t

ah well, back to therapy then

[Bax-of-Delights]

Copland's "I bought me a cat".

A favourite with R3 and just announced, oh so locquaciously, by KD on Afternoon on 3. Click. Off.

[Serial_Apologist]

I thought I had managed to forget this pile of cats**t

The one in Ravel's "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" is rather good though, imo.

[marvin]

Boeuf sur la toit - Milhaud.
Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky
Choral Symphony, last movement - Beethoven
Most operas, with nonsensical plots, in foreign languages that I don't speak fluently.