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I never thought I'd read anything worthwhile by Norman Lebrecht, and this isn't exactly by him, but a quote by him of pianist Katya Apekisheva's list of 10 works or composers she never wants to hear again that I find brilliant and right on point:
1. Vivaldi. Four seasons
2. Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals
3. ABBA
4. About 85% of music by Liszt
5. Berlioz
6. Ending of Tchaikovsky piano trio ( around 8 last pages)
7. Neapolitan song 'O Sole Mio'
8. Beethoven Fur Elise
9. Virtuoso violin music, such as Sarasate and Weniawsky
10. Brindisi from Traviata
The brilliant thing about this list is that she doesn't simply go for 10 works or composers she doesn't like, or make inane comments like "all Mozart" like other posters, but names 10 truly overplayed works and composers, or works that are just too over the top and hysterical or go on for too d@mn long.
My list:
1. Grieg, especially the piano concerto and Peer Gynt Suite no. 2
2. Verdi's March from Aida
3. Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1
4. Pachelbel's Canon in D
5. Schubert's Unfinished Symphony
6. Bruckner, especially the Tedium
7. Tchaikovsky piano concerto no. 1
8. ABBA (sorry to copy Katya, but simply too true).
9. Gliere's Ilya Muromets
10. Rachmaninoff piano concerto no. 2
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My classical music hatelist, in no particular order:
1. Rhapsody in Blue
2. The second part of Mahler 8
3. Vivaldi Four Seasons
4. 1812 Overture
5. Either Elgar symphony
6. Everything by Delius
7. Bach orchestral suites
8. Tchaikovsky 4th symphony
9. most of Schumann's piano music
10. Brahms German Requiem
I've been known to grab a few extra arpeggios from the dessert tray from time to time, but his are enough to choke a horse.Opening melody is nice, until it abruptly morphs into the Rococo Variations.
Killer piano part, I'd imagine very hard to balance.
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1. Queen - We are the Champions
2. Beatles - Hey Jude
3. Bernstein conducting Mahler on video
4. Bernstein conducting anything else on video
5. Sinatra - New York, New York
6. Leonard Cohen singing Hallelujah
7. Beethoven Appassionata sonata
8. National anthems from obscure countries
9. Any and all Richard Clayderman
10. R.Strauss Dance of 7 Veils with a fat soprano strippingUgh.... feel sick after that.....
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OK - there's one spot (actually two: once in the exposition and once in the recapitulation) where Beethoven has the fortissimo chords battering away in alternating hands. Yes, that seems like an embarrassing miscalculation to me. (Beethoven goes back to his tyro stage and pounds the piano!)
But other than that, the Appassionata is a great piece! Maybe you've been listening to Schnabel too much? ;-)
A low blow, Chris.
Anyway, there's always Richter.
Jeremy
?even Richter?
You know me - I hate anything overblown and melodramatic....I'd lob the opening into the same bag as Tchaikovsky's piano concerto or Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2. No need to wake the dead here....
I like pieces that announce themselves politely and with a sense of mystery. Falla's Noches for instance. Love the opening of Beethoven's 31/3 for instance - just perfect. Or several of the others like 10/3, 27/1, 101, 109, 110. He can get it right when he wants to.
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But that's just what the Appassionata does! Beethoven doesn't get going on the pounding until a couple of lines later!
Tchaikovsky- "Rococo Variations"
The Tokens- "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
Mahler's Fourth Symphony
Anything by Kenny G.
Johann Strauss- "Radetzky March"
The "It's Now or Never" version of "O Sole Mio".....
Anything by Barbra Streisand
Most pop music put out after the year 2000
Jose Feliciano version of "Light My Fire"
Michael Jackson- "We Are the World"
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Music that immediately provokes me to get up and leave.
1. Pachelbel Canon in D
2. Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
3. Mozart symphonies and piano concertos (all of them)
4. Stravinsky Rite of Spring
5. Berg Violin Concerto & Lulu
6. Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3
7. Shostakovich symphonies (all of them, esp. 5 & 10)
8. Haydn symphonies (all of them)
9. Messiaen (everything, esp. Turangalila)
10. Wagner Ride of the Valkyries
Honorable mention -- Holst The Planets and Liszt (anything he ever wrote).
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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"The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains" -Paul Simon
I disagree with most of your list - strongly for some of them - but this one made me laugh and smile:
8. Haydn symphonies (all of them)
Severius! Supremus Invictus
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"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
Wow.
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Yep. But, not because you don't know a chamber music masterpiece. That's easily addressed. The other things ----
Severius! Supremus Invictus
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