The most boring music you've heard

[knight66]

Sarge, That opening chorus on the McCreech lasts 6 min 06 sec. as against 11min 26 sec on the Richter. That may give an idea of the contrasting approach. McCreech never sounds underpowered. Seemingly there is some historic evidence for the entire piece being sung by eight singers, though they must have been pretty done in at the end of it.

The singers include Kozena and Padmore.

I hope you enjoy it if you do get hold of it.

Mike

[knight66]

Definitely, Mike. And you phrased it a lot more subtle than I would have done...
A performance of the MP by the likes of Klemperer is boredom 100% guaranteed...IMO....

McCreesh would not be my personal choice - the intimate, real-life drama of Harnoncourt's 2nd take does it for me. For other suggestions of a good, non-boring, MP: Bach's St. Matthew Passion

Q

Yes, I have that Harnoncourt and would recommend it. It also has a great line-up of singers and Fink is the alto. I just thought I would suggest the greatest contrast to funerial that I knew of.

Another thing against that Richter is the excrutiatingly flat singing of Matti Salminen in the final aria, Mache dich, mein hertz, rein....but Sarge may have spared himself by not wading that far through it.

Mike

[Sergeant Rock]

Another thing against that Richter is the excrutiatingly flat singing of Matti Salminen in the final aria, Mache dich, mein hertz, rein....but Sarge may have spared himself by not wading that far through it.
Mike

By that point I'd lost interest and was in the kitchen preparing supper. Lucky me 

Sarge

[greg]

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[PerfectWagnerite]

Another thing against that Richter is the excrutiatingly flat singing of Matti Salminen in the final aria,
Mike

The final aria? I can't even get past the 2nd track.

[knight66]

Well, it is not the music, it is the performance. What more can I say?

Mike

[(poco) Sforzando]

Another thing against that Richter is the excrutiatingly flat singing of Matti Salminen in the final aria, Mache dich, mein hertz, rein....

Evidently a few Hertz below pitch, and praying for his intonation to be made pure.

[Papageno]

Grieg?
For the grass to grow.

[Superhorn]

    Einstein  on  the  Beach   and  Satyagraha ,  which  I  have  heard  on  CD ,  were  like  watching  grass  grow.  Glass's  Akhenaten  was  slightly  better ;  I  found  it  genuinely  evocatice  of  what  ancient  Egypt  might  have  been  like.
   I  have   a  piece  of  electronic  music  by  Stockhausen  on   Harmonia  Mundi  that is  nothing  but  noise.
   To  me,  Elgar  is  anything  but  boring.  Perhaps  the  performances  you  heard  failed  to  do  justice to  the  music.  His  symphonies  and  other   orchestral  works  are  in  fact   impassioned  and  inspired  music.  Try  Solti's  Elgar   recordings;  how  any  one  could  be  bored  by  these  performances  is  beyond  me.
   Wagner  boring ?   Oh  well,  there's  no  accounting  for  taste.  His  operas  sure  take  their  time   to  unfold,  but  in  a  great  performance  they're  not  a  minute  too  long.

[otterhouse]

It's almost fun how hollow this music is:

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=1ed0Y12hAik

It's not a bad composer! His symphony in d-minor is a masterpiece, recently performed in the Netherlands by Frans Bruggen and recorded by Antal Dorati.

Rolf

[M forever]

It's simple, light music, but I don't think it's actually that bad. Very typical for a lot of pieces from that era. Not everyone can be Mozart or Beethoven. It may not be "profound", but it doesn't pretend to be either, so while I think the material could have been used a little wittier, it's OK music. But I do think it could be played much better than it is here. This performance lacks rhythmical spring, dynamic shading and more nuanced phrasing which could make the music more fun.

[sound67]

Eugen d'Albert, Tiefland.

A snoozefest. 

Thomas

[Papageno]

Schönberg

[Kullervo]

Schönberg

I see.

*silently writes Papageno's name in his notebook*

[greg]

Are those two life partners?

[71 dB]

Are those two life partners?

No, as you can see they are death partners.

[greg]

No, as you can see they are death partners.

[LVB_opus.125]

Ah, I see.  It's not Muzak^®, just piped in pop music that you don't like.  I wouldn't like that either and would probably protest...but without much hope of change. 

No. There is no hope. I sometimes day dream about making my own playlists for the day. Today we'll hear all 32 Beethoven piano Sonatas, followed by Bach's violin concerti, followed by a set of Haydn string quartets! Then on other days I'd play good rock/pop/folk, and keep things interesting.

[Sid]

Most of Saint-Saens (apart from a few really enjoyable pieces, e.g. the 2nd piano concerto or the danse macabre)

Agreed. & add Glazunov as well...

[abidoful]

why cant i think anything that is boring