Extremely annoying pieces of classical music

[Nick Armstrong]

& with a big enough gin even the "Nutcracker" - Pas de Deux might sound good

Hahaha you got in there before my edit. You are right. It would have to be an ENORMOUS gin though...

[salymap]

Isn't it odd? I love Tatiana's Letter Scene and the Nutcracker music. We danced to the Nutcracker at Junior School [It was wartime and we had about three records to choose from.] Ihad a lovely LP of La Valse,
think it was Pierre Monteux. I got a young coz to listen to the Dukas and it got him started on music.
However, can't stand Bolero and the beginning of Rimsky's Capriccio Espagnole gets me rushing for the off switch. What a good thing we are not all alike!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"Panic" by Birtwistle (but that's cheating, not being music - more akin to the sound of pneumatic drills and treading on a cat).

I'm just off to listen to Elgar's Dream of Gerontius. :)

[Nick Armstrong]

Isn't it odd? I love Tatiana's Letter Scene and the Nutcracker music. We danced to the Nutcracker at Junior School [It was wartime and we had about three records to choose from.]

Saly, I feel such a heel !!! Sorry!!

By the way, while writing: a big "NOOOO!" to all the Elgar haters!!

I love the last movements of Symphs 1 & 2.. and Gerontius!!!!

Just shows you..

[Uncle Monty]

Noooooo!!!!

The final movements of the Elgar symphonies are perfection!!!

I can't abide such crass generalization, although everything by Berlioz is garbage.

Ha ha, well, there you are! It wouldn't do for us all to think the same, would it?!

(I love the Enigmas, but always programme the cd player to omit the finale, which really, really annoys me. It seems so obvious somehow.)

However, I love Berlioz OK, some things are bit turgid, but his best stuff is just wonderful.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

By the way, while writing: a big "NOOOO!" to all the Elgar haters!!

I love the last movements of Symphs 1 & 2.. and Gerontius!!!!

Just shows you

I really wouldn't worry about them He's one of the few composers, I could listen to "wall-to-wall".

[Uncle Monty]

And while I think of it, speaking as a cellist, anything by Tchaikovsky

All those wretched swirling chromatic runs, up and down, up and down, round and round, as when one has had one Barley Wine too many, and the room is going round, heralding the inevitable.

I hate him. Almost as much as I hate crass generalisations

[Nick Armstrong]

And while I think of it, speaking as a cellist, anything by Tchaikovsky

All those wretched swirling chromatic runs, up and down, up and down, round and round, as when one has had one Barley Wine too many, and the room is going round, heralding the inevitable.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

And while I think of it, speaking as a cellist, anything by Tchaikovsky

All those wretched swirling chromatic runs, up and down, up and down, round and round, as when one has had one Barley Wine too many, and the room is going round, heralding the inevitable.

I hate him. Almost as much as I hate crass generalisations

But do you hate him because of the quality of his music, or because you have to do more practice?

[Uncle Monty]

But do you hate him because of the quality of his music, or because you have to do more practice?

Now that's a low punch. . .

[subcontrabass]

The Dream of Sodding Gerontius
the world would have been a much better place without it

I beg to differ on this one. I think Elgar's assessment of the work still stands, and I still love the work despite having studied it (as one of six set works) for A level many years ago.

[Alison]

That Litolff Scherzo thing that Clifford Curzon used to play - yuk !

Kindly lay off Tchaikovsky and Ravel, folks. Thanks awfully.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I think Elgar's assessment of the work still stands, and I still love the work despite having studied it (as one of six set works) for A level many years ago.

That's praise indeed. I can think of a long list of works I never listen to now as a result of over-exposure in school, university and teaching A-level...

[subcontrabass]

That's praise indeed. I can think of a long list of works I never listen to now as a result of over-exposure in school, university and teaching A-level...

I still enjoy listening to four of the other works we studied (as well as the three we did for O level). I don't remember ever hearing the other one broadcast.

[Nick Armstrong]

I still enjoy listening to four of the other works we studied (as well as the three we did for O level). I don't remember ever hearing the other one broadcast.

Me too scb: we studied the Debussy Preludes Book 1, Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, Bach's Orchestral Suite no 1 and LvB's An die Ferne Geliebte. The latter is the only one I haven't had much to do with since, love the others.