Guilty secrets - the bits you miss out

[verismissimo]

Emerging list here? Beethoven...

... Mozart?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Anything written by Harrison Birtwhistle - pretentious noise.

You should try Harrison Birtwistle instead, Barbs: greatest English composer since Byrd.

[MrGongGong]

You should try Harrison Birtwistle instead, Barbs: greatest English composer since Byrd.

[Barbirollians]

You should try Harrison Birtwistle instead, Barbs: greatest English composer since Byrd.

Nah - he is just as bad when he drops his aitches .

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Nah - he is just as bad when he drops his aitches .

Mind you, weren't you rather moving the goalposts from "missing out individual movements of works which you otherwise enjoy" (which I never do) to "missing out works completely from composers you don't like" (which I do all the time!) - unless you're suggesting that you buy all 'arri's CDs just so you can deliberately avoid playing them?

[Thropplenoggin]

I was reminded of this thread today when the temptation to skip the second movements of Mahler 3, then Mahler 2, seized me. I resisted and found myself almost warming to them. Almost.

[Ferretfancy]

I was reminded of this thread today when the temptation to skip the second movements of Mahler 3, then Mahler 2, seized me. I resisted and found myself almost warming to them. Almost.

Watch it Thropples! The Mahler thought police know where you live! It takes courage on these threads to even hint that Gustav isn't absolutely perfect!

[MickyD]

I'm ashamed to say that I often miss out the "extra" movements of Bach's 1st Brandenburg Concerto...for me it works perfectly well with just the first three movements, and matches its sister concertos much more evenly. Sacrilege!

[ostuni]

When listening to any Bruckner symphony, I'm almost always tempted to skip the repeat of the Scherzo after the Trio.

[richardfinegold]

Watch it Thropples! The Mahler thought police know where you live! It takes courage on these threads to even hint that Gustav isn't absolutely perfect!

I think that the advent of the lp had a lot to do with Mahler finally becoming a front rank composer, more than 50 years after his demise. People could play 1 or 2 movements (sides of a record, usually) at a time and take these sprawling musical canvasses in in smaller bites. Gradually an appreciation develops, the interrelationships between the movements become more obvious, and eventually the desire to take in an entire work at a concert then follows. If one is unfamiliar with a GM Symphony, and then has to take the whole thing in at a concert, it frequently overwhelms.

[teamsaint]

Watch it Thropples! The Mahler thought police know where you live! It takes courage on these threads to even hint that Gustav isn't absolutely perfect!

I think they have issues with my rather flippant comment about listening to Mahler on a recent post on "What are you listening to now "....
Oh dear.