What work do you most dislike?

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What work do you most dislike?

1clammer
Jul 28, 2022, 10:07 pm

For me it is Ravel's Bolero. Something about it just gets on my nerves.

2librorumamans
Jul 28, 2022, 11:04 pm

>1 clammer:
I largely agree with you, although when choreographed it can be a powerful experience. I'm thinking of Torvill and Dean's perfect skate at the 1984 Winter Olympics or Béjart's ballet.

Two works that I became sick of hearing many years ago:
Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor BWV 565 and
Vivaldi's Four Seasons

3Tess_W
Jul 29, 2022, 4:20 am

Stravinsky-The Rite of Spring!

4lilithcat
Jul 29, 2022, 9:00 am

Borodin's Polovtsian Dances and anything else that I cannot hear without some Broadway lyrics or Disney cartoon entering my brain.

5Marissa_Doyle
Jul 29, 2022, 12:23 pm

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. I just can't. Oddly, I rather like the Choral Fantasy.

6haydninvienna
Jul 29, 2022, 2:41 pm

Nearly everything by Wagner. Possible exception: the Siegfried Idyll (although I do wonder why it wasn’t called the Cosima Idyll).

7cappybear
Jun 19, 2023, 12:30 pm

L'Apprenti sorcier by Dukas and Variations symphoniques by Franck spring to mind. I like everything else that I've heard by these composers so I don't know why I find these particular works such a bore.