Extremely annoying pieces of classical music

[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

[Caliban]

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.

[Caliban]

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.