Unpopular Opinions

[Florestan]

If I got started...

Having heard last Friday live Brahms' First Symphony I was only confirmed in my long held opinion: apart from the Scherzo (only, without the Trio) and that melody in the finale, it is a formless and completely forgettable aborted foetus. 

[Florestan]

I think GMGer Nav has never actually reached the end of the piece yet I am sympathetic to the view.

Well, you two are of the same lot: he is a Bach guy and you're a Bax girl.

[Lethevich]

Well, you two are of the same lot: he is a Bach guy and you're a Bax girl.

And beyond all reasonable coincidence, Bach in Russian is Бах

[Florestan]

And beyond all reasonable coincidence, Bach in Russian is Бах

Kонечно. 

[Sergeant Rock]

Maybe. But I was a "contemporary teenager" in the 1980s, and if I grew out of it, anyone can 

Thank god I've never grown up    Mahler is even more important to me today than he was when I first heard him at age 17.

Sarge

[Florestan]

Thank god I've never grown up    Mahler is even more important to me today than he was when I first heard him at age 17.

Sarge

Q. E. D.   

[Mirror Image]

I'm starting to become incredibly disenchanted with living composers, although there are a few whose music I enjoy. I think Baroque music, in general, is better for dinner parties or restaurants than for serious listening. I think the Classical Era produced some of the most downright garbage of any period with Mozart leading the pack.

[Sergeant Rock]

Whoever said it is?

Me! Start with the first note, add the last...and include everything in between. Throw them all out. Now there you have a great symphony! Shostakovich's own 4'33....only much longer 

Sarge

[Florestan]

I think Baroque music, in general, is better for dinner parties or restaurants than for serious listening. I think the Classical Era produced some of the most downright garbage of any period with Mozart leading the pack.

Easily the best post in the spirit of this thread...

[Florestan]

Me! Start with the first note, add the last...and include everything in between. Throw them all out. Now there you have a great symphony! Shostakovich's own 4'33....only much longer 

I like Shostakovich but, after all, I could live perfectly happy without ever hearing a single note of his anymore. OTOH, how about your life without Mahler? 

[Sergeant Rock]

I like Shostakovich but, after all, I could live perfectly happy without ever hearing a single note of his anymore. OTOH, how about your life without Mahler? 

Life is unthinkable without Mahler. There. I'm finally on topic 

Sarge

[Opus106]

I think Baroque music, in general, is better for dinner parties or restaurants than for serious listening. I think the Classical Era produced some of the most downright garbage of any period with Mozart leading the pack.

This is not the misguided ramblings thread, MI.

[Florestan]

Life is unthinkable without Mahler. There. I'm finally on topic 

Excellent, Sarge! You rock as usual, my hat off to you!

[Mirror Image]

This is not the misguided ramblings thread, MI.

[Mirror Image]

Q: What's the difference between Mahler and Janet Reno?

A: Nothing, they're both psychotic, delusional windbags.

[TheGSMoeller]

I think Baroque music, in general, is better for dinner parties or restaurants than for serious listening.

I would frequent that restaurant, "Table for One, Please!"   

[madaboutmahler]

Thank god I've never grown up    Mahler is even more important to me today than he was when I first heard him at age 17.

Sarge

I wonder what I will be like then....

Life is unthinkable without Mahler. There. I'm finally on topic 

Sarge

Completely true! Couldn't agree more!

Q: What's the difference between Mahler and Janet Reno?

A: Nothing, they're both psychotic, delusional windbags.

I'm going to go and find a picture of you now to attach to my Mahler hammer when I play it tonight.

[Sergeant Rock]

I wonder what I will be like then....

Do you mean 17...or 62? 

Sarge

[madaboutmahler]

Apart from the Violin Concerto, I cannot bear a note of Glazunov.

How?! Do you not know the 4th symphony?!

Sibelius is nearly as overrated as Mahler

Mahler could NEVER be overrated. 

Do you mean 17...or 62? 

Sarge

62 I will have probably formed my own international Mahler society!

[Lisztianwagner]

Life is unthinkable without Mahler.

I totally agree

But I think a lifetime without Wagner would be worse for me........