Pieces that set your teeth on edge

[Don Petter]

Boeuf sur la toit - Milhaud.

No! A great favourite of mine, but I suppose one man's boeuf ...

[agingjb]

When I read this thread, and indeed a lot of this forum, I do wonder if there is a single musical work that someone doesn't detest.

Were I at the BBC trying to argue for funding for Radio3, already a minority channel, I might find it quite hard to identify any residual target audience at all.

[Sir Velo]

Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky
Choral Symphony, last movement - Beethoven

Not aimed at you but I do wonder how anyone who claims to be a music lover could say this about these pieces.

[kea]

When I read this thread, and indeed a lot of this forum, I do wonder if there is a single musical work that someone doesn't detest.

Seems like Wellington's Victory, the Nutcracker and the theme from Schindler's List have all escaped relatively unscathed, best to programme them instead of that awful racket like Mahler's 7th and The Dream of Gerontius

[ahinton]

No! A great favourite of mine, but I suppose one man's boeuf ...

...is another man's oven, peut-être...

[marvin]

Anything on Classic Fm although there's nothing wrong, intrinsically with the individual pieces of music nut the frequency and selectiveness and the 'easy listening' aspect. It's insulting the listener.
"Anything by Haydn, please."