Extremely annoying pieces of classical music

[richardfinegold]

The finale of the Schumann Violin Concerto. No wonder why Clara wanted the whole thing suppressed

[ahinton]

True, we all like tunes, I think it was Schoenberg who said that there is still plenty of music to be written in E minor.

C major, as far as I know, yet all my efforts to track down the source of this some years ago proved fruitless; I think that it was in a lecture, talk or something rather than something tht he actually wrote down.

Anyway - Alvin Curran: Inner Cities.

[MrGongGong]

Yes IMO. I agree that it's treacly, but I find it a valid setting of the text. On the whole I think Andrew Lloyd Webber is a good composer, as was his father before him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW5wwi4ahLc

[Beef Oven!]

Yes IMO. I agree that it's treacly, but I find it a valid setting of the text. On the whole I think Andrew Lloyd Webber is a good composer, as was his father before him.

As irritating as the whole Lloyd-Webber thing can be, his requiem is actually quite good, as requiems go (not my cup of tea, I must add).

[Richard Barrett]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW5wwi4ahLc

I could add a couple more to that. ALW's "tunes" seem to me to be mostly Frankenstein monsters made out of ill-fitting bits of preexistent music. Plenty of other composers have done this too but not, I think, to the same degree. How "extremely annoying" or indeed "classical" his music is, is another matter.

[visualnickmos]

ALW: Can't stand the 'music' - can't abide the man.

[Stanfordian]

Leopold Mozart 'Toy' Symphony - attrib. Leopold Mozart
An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise - Peter Maxwell Davies.

[Stanfordian]

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem especially the treacly Pie Jesu . Does it count as classical music ?

Hiya Barbirollians,

As a stand alone piece of music the 'Pie Jesu' from ALW's Requiem is one of the most beautiful pieces of sacred music I know. It can be very affecting. I had it played at my father's funeral and it's aptness and abilty to move people emotionally was remarked upon by many.

[Richard Barrett]

An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise - Peter Maxwell Davies.

Fair copy of full score of PMD's sketch made by yours truly. Yes it's annoying but it paid the rent for a few weeks...

[Richard Tarleton]

Prompted by Essential Classics just now, while unloading some shopping - Holst St Paul's Suite. An exceptionally irritating piece, especially the "De de de deddle-e de de de" bit, with a great dollop of Greensleeves.....

[Barbirollians]

Hiya Barbirollians,

As a stand alone piece of music the 'Pie Jesu' from ALW's Requiem is one of the most beautiful pieces of sacred music I know. It can be very affecting. I had it played at my father's funeral and it's aptness and abilty to move people emotionally was remarked upon by many.

Sorry to offend Stanfordian I can understand why it is popular and that many people are moved by it .it leaves me cold I am afraid I have always disliked it and regarded it as no match for Faure's pie Jesu.

[Nick Armstrong]

Prompted by Essential Classics just now, while unloading some shopping - Holst St Paul's Suite. An exceptionally irritating piece, especially the "De de de deddle-e de de de" bit, with a great dollop of Greensleeves.....

I'm not a big fan of that suite but the movement you highlight works much better for wind band imho, in its incarnation as Second Suite for Military Band - IV. Fantasia on the 'Dargason'

The climactic bit gives me goosebumps... (though the ending's a bit naff)

[visualnickmos]

Leopold Mozart 'Toy' Symphony - attrib. Leopold MozartAn Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise - Peter Maxwell Davies.

Oh yes - complete crap! I heard it once at school - NEVER again!

[Richard Tarleton]

Dargason

You prompted me to look it up, Cali, which I'd never done before - here's the dance in all its, er, glory

A vertical expression of a horizontal desire?

[Beef Oven!]

Oh yes - complete crap! I heard it once at school - NEVER again!

We can’t accuse you of being equivocal!