How I wish I'd never heard..........

[teamsaint]

Diddilydiddilydiddilydiddilydiddilydiddily.... ad nauseam

How I loathe Philip Glass.

I didn't know we were allowed to say things like that!

Terribly dull. (hope he doesn't read this , in the season of goodwill !!)

[Don Petter]

Gosh yes! A week or so ago we switched on in the car to an unbelievably mindless repetitive dirge. On our subsequently consulting the R3 schedule it turned out to be Koyaanisqatsi by PG.

[Serial_Apologist]

I didn't know we were allowed to say things like that!

Terribly dull. (hope he doesn't read this , in the season of goodwill !!)

He's safe (in more senses than one) on the other side of The Pond!

[Ferretfancy]

Luckily most atrocities get forgotten eventually. I remember an especially odious song called " You're the song angels sing" based on the waltz like poco allegretto movement from Brahms 3!

[cloughie]

'Till Eulenspiegl' and 'How high the moon'

[salymap]

Beethoven's Minuet, WoO something, or alternatively wish I hadn't seen 'The Ladykillers' film. I thought their piece was by Boccherini but anyway it was just played on Breakfast' listed as Beethoven. I'll settle for the film which is one of the funniest black comedies I've ever seen.

[ahinton]

Beethoven's Minuet, WoO something, or alternatively wish I hadn't seen 'The Ladykillers' film. I thought their piece was by Boccherini but anyway it was just played on Breakfast' listed as Beethoven. I'll settle for the film which is one of the funniest black comedies I've ever seen.

It was indeed Boccherini, so your post ought perhaps to read "How I wish I'd never heard that BBC R3 announcer claim that Ludwig van Boccherini's Minuet in A was actually composed by Luigi Beethoven"...

[salymap]

It was indeed Boccherini, so your post ought perhaps to read "How I wish I'd never heard that BBC R3 announcer claim that Ludwig van Boccherini's Minuet in A was actually composed by Luigi Beethoven"...

Oh goody, couldn't believe they would get that wrong, so thought my memory was playing up.

[cloughie]

The beginning of the 3rd movement of Rachmaninov Sym 2 always reminds me of 'I can't get started' by George and Ira Gershwin and Vernon Duke.

[Serial_Apologist]

'Till Eulenspiegl' and 'How high the moon'

Yes, what is it about "How High the Moon"? My father always hated "The Man I Love", and I'm thinking, maybe it has something to do with the fact that both tunes begin by slow descent into lower registers, then spend some time wandering around there, before rising in somewhat complacent fashion as they round off.

"Till Eulenspiegel"'s all right with me. It has some pretty advanced harmonic progressions for the earlyness of its date of composition - that's probably the main reason why I'm OK with it.

[cloughie]

Yes, what is it about "How High the Moon"? My father always hated "The Man I Love", and I'm thinking, maybe it has something to do with the fact that both tunes begin by slow descent into lower registers, then spend some time wandering around there, before rising in somewhat complacent fashion as they round off.

"Till Eulenspiegel"'s all right with me. It has some pretty advanced harmonic progressions for the earlyness of its date of composition - that's probably the main reason why I'm OK with it.

I should have added that I love them both and over the years have had the good fortune to hear great interpretations.

[Lateralthinking1]

I am surprised that no one has mentioned All By Myself, Could It be Magic, All Together Now and I Believe in Father Christmas.

They, of course, have "interesting" approaches to Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18, Chopin's Prelude in C Minor, Opus 28, Number 20, Pachelbel's "Canon" and the "Troika" portion of Sergei Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé Suite respectively.

In case anyone wants to be able to say "how I wish I'd never heard them", here they all are for your "enjoyment".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKNtYO25FG4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz_r8d4xhUA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7MwXniOD44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCEdrnaFlY

[Angle]

"Congratulations" (Cliff Richard) because Mahler seems earlier to have written a set of variations on it in the closing movement of the fifth symphony.

"Christopher Robin is saying his prayers" which Brahms, with considerable foresight, quotes at some length in the Andante Moderato second movement of the fourth symphony. I cannot get "Little boy droops on his little hands, little gold head" out of my mind every time I hear that super symphony.

I curse most, however, "Puff the Magic Dragon" which can haunt me for days, forever popping into mind after I have heard, always accidentally, the opening bars.

Finally, "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring" which, every time I hear it in a concert hall, always sends me into a trance thus deafening me, always, to the actual call of said cuckoo.

Don de Liverpool
with sympathy to Caliban re his Virgin Problem.

[salymap]

There's a little bit of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake suite that resembles 'Sweet Rosie O'Grady' to me.

[cloughie]

I am surprised that no one has mentioned All By Myself, Could It be Magic, All Together Now and I Believe in Father Christmas.

They, of course, have "interesting" approaches to Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18, Chopin's Prelude in C Minor, Opus 28, Number 20, Pachelbel's "Canon" and the "Troika" portion of Sergei Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé Suite respectively.

In case anyone wants to be able to say "how I wish I'd never heard them", here they all are for your "enjoyment".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKNtYO25FG4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz_r8d4xhUA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7MwXniOD44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCEdrnaFlY

I think these were straight lifts rather than coincindental similarities.