Music that doesn't move you

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

We had a similar thread not so long ago, though I haven't managed to find it yet.

My list hasn't changed much. Of well-known works, I could include:

Schubert 5,
Bruckner 0-4, 6-9,
Mendelssohn's symphonies,
Most Verdi operas,
Elgar's Wand of Youth,
80-90% of works in B flat major,
plus just about everything conducted by a certain British knight. . .

[Richard Barrett]

I thought I remembered a discussion like this some time ago.

80-90% of works in B flat major

Best response to the thread so far!

[vinteuil]

80-90% of works in B flat major,
. .

... is that at A = 440? - do the works sound better at their appropriate historical pitches, say with A = 392, 415, 409, 422.5, 423.2, 435, 451?

[Serial_Apologist]

80-90% of works in B flat major,

That rules out a helluva lot of jazz - jazz musicians (especially saxophonists) have a particular liking for playing anything in the key(s) of B flat; maybe it's the equivalent of C major for pianists!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've had two colonoscopies

That's a completely different kind of Ring cycle.

[Conchis]

Then I do not pour scorn upon you; I feel very sorry for you.

He is a composer who seems to appeal to intellectuals and I'm not an intellectual.

The Brandenberg Concertos make me feel physically ill.

I can listen to the Passions and feel admiration for the composer's achievement and his genius (which I acknowledge) but my heart and my senses remain unengaged.

Mind you, I used to feel much the same way about Mozart but that has shifted somewhat over the years.

Bach (and Handel) are the only two 'great' composers whose work I just don't 'get'.

[Richard Barrett]

That's a completely different kind of Ring cycle.

You are on form today and no mistake.

[Pianoman]

Yep he is - reminds me of a book I once saw on a library shelf entitled 'Penetrating Wagner's Ring' - mmm, the very thought..

[Stanfordian]

Yep he is - reminds me of a book I once saw on a library shelf entitled 'Penetrating Wagner's Ring' - mmm, the very thought..

Reminds me of seeing Priests kissing the Bishop's ring.

[ahinton]

That's a completely different kind of Ring cycle.

Brilliant! Can't wait to hear the real one conducted by Nicolas Col(l)on. Reminds me somewhat of the convention in academic circles of the near-ubiquitous colon in the titles of papers on this and that a habit that I've described as "colonic irritation".

[Pianoman]

Enuff schoolboy humour..

I'm sad to see old Verdi getting stick here from quite a few - I admit to not really bothering with the rum-te-tum earlier works, but Otello and Falstaff and genuinely desert island for me.

[cloughie]

For starters:
1 Poetry set to music when the words have to be stretched to fit the tune.
2 Quite a lot of opera sung by singers, particularly tenors, whose vibrato is excessive and whose tuning is sometimes questionable.
3 Britten's operas and most of his vocal works.
4 G&S
5 Punk era pop music
6 Minimalist music which is repetitive and lacks melody.
7 Lazy songwriting

[Conchis]

The recently deceased George Michael.

Talented man but I never cared for his stuff. He had a good voice, but (imo) over-sang (a besetting sin of pop singers in the 80s).

[cloughie]

Vague statements like this don't "move me"
BUT i'm going to York tomorrow so might call in to see Trevor to share how his phrase has found favour with the bufton tuftons

bufton tuftons ?

[vinteuil]

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... as in Private Eye :

"Sir Bufton Tufton is the Tory MP for somewhere-or-other, and in the Thatcher government sat on the back benches. The name was inspired by that of a real-life Tory backbencher, Sir Tufton Beamish, who sat for Lewes 1945–1974, but the character was modelled on MPs who were well to the right of Beamish. Sir Bufton's constituency was usually the fictitious safe rural seat of "Lymeswold" (named from a commercially produced cheese), and although this was subject to topical change, his greediness, laziness, bigotry and incompetence remained constant."