The most boring music you've heard

[TheGSMoeller]

     Since I don't get bored, I imagine it must be something like being anxious.

     If I did get bored Ein Heldenleben would be boring. I find it incomprehensible in a way that doesn't arouse curiosity. That itself is a curious fact.

It's critics like you that have Strauss' Hero in battle!!

[drogulus]

It's critics like you that have Strauss' Hero in battle!!

     I give Strauss weirdness points for that. I don't really think I'm the sort of critic Strauss is upset about. I even like Symphonia Domestica, though the part where he takes a dump while reading the sports section is not up to his usual standards.

[TheGSMoeller]

     I give Strauss weirdness points for that. I don't really think I'm the sort of critic Strauss is upset about. I even like Symphonia Domestica, though the part while he takes a dump while reading the sports section is not up to his usual standards.

I do think Domestica is a better piece. And those pizzicato strings during the nose-hair picking melody are grossly accurate.

[Mirror Image]

Anything by the Strauss family, Bach, or Mozart.

[TheGSMoeller]

Anything by the Strauss family, Bach, or Mozart.

Don't make me search the archives for a pro-Strauss post from you, it's got to be in here somewhere.

[Gurn Blanston]

Anything by the Strauss family, Bach, or Mozart.

Which Bach?

[TheGSMoeller]

Which Bach?

Steve Bach, not the famous one.

[Mirror Image]

Don't make me search the archives for a pro-Strauss post from you, it's got to be in here somewhere.

Lol...godspeed to you on that endeavor.

[Mirror Image]

Which Bach?

Take your pick.

[bigshot]

The most boring music I ever heard was Brian Eno's Thursday Afternoon. It's an album best listened to while you're sound asleep.

[Gurn Blanston]

Take your pick.

I like CPE; let's leave him out.

[TheGSMoeller]

The most boring music I ever heard was Brian Eno's Thursday Afternoon. It's an album best listened to while you're sound asleep.

How would you even know you were listening to it?

I just let other people listen to music I find boring and then they can tell me about later, and that's if their lucky I even listen to them talk.

[Philoctetes]

The only music that I've not yet come to terms with is Mozart's Symphonies. I'm always looking for new recordings to assist me in this endeavor. I know for a 100 percent fact that the issue is on my end, but I just have not yet found the recording that has clicked. I'm always on the lookout though.

[Gurn Blanston]

The only music that I've not yet come to terms with is Mozart's Symphonies. I'm always looking for new recordings to assist me in this endeavor. I know for a 100 percent fact that the issue is on my end, but I just have not yet found the recording that has clicked. I'm always on the lookout though.

That's a pity, Philo. There is a lot of satisfaction there, although even as a hard-core fan I can say that they are not all equal. Rather than a different performance as such, I would try a few specific symphonies instead and avoid some others. #39 in Eb is an example of a work that virtually always transcends any pluses or minuses of performance. Another is #36 in C, the Linz Symphony, and finally, the one in between them, #38 in D, the Prague Symphony. Those 3 in particular are some of the finest examples of Classical Style, and without giving you the burden of "getting it" (I hate that phrase) that, for example, the Jupiter brings along.

I like the Strauss Family's music too. 

[Philoctetes]

That's a pity, Philo. There is a lot of satisfaction there, although even as a hard-core fan I can say that they are not all equal. Rather than a different performance as such, I would try a few specific symphonies instead and avoid some others. #39 in Eb is an example of a work that virtually always transcends any pluses or minuses of performance. Another is #36 in C, the Linz Symphony, and finally, the one in between them, #38 in D, the Prague Symphony. Those 3 in particular are some of the finest examples of Classical Style, and without giving you the burden of "getting it" (I hate that phrase) that, for example, the Jupiter brings along.

I like the Strauss Family's music too. 

Thanks a lot for that. I agree that 'getting it' is a poor phrase, but I'm just trying to expressing a feeling. I will take a listen to the three symphonies that you listed.

I like the Strauss family as well.  Such cheerful music.

[Gurn Blanston]

Thanks a lot for that. I agree that 'getting it' is a poor phrase, but I'm just trying to expressing a feeling. I will take a listen to the three symphonies that you listed.

I like the Strauss family as well.  Such cheerful music.

Oh, no, you didn't say it, it just gets said a lot. Frankly, I don't get it....

[DavidW]

The only music that I've not yet come to terms with is Mozart's Symphonies. I'm always looking for new recordings to assist me in this endeavor. I know for a 100 percent fact that the issue is on my end, but I just have not yet found the recording that has clicked. I'm always on the lookout though.

As long as you like the operas it's okay.

Do you have any problems with his piano concertos?

[Philoctetes]

As long as you like the operas it's okay.

Do you have any problems with his piano concertos?

It's only his symphonies.

[eyeresist]

It's only his symphonies.

I think the early ones (up to 29) are much more accessible. After this, his style becomes much drier.

[SymphonicAddict]

A lot of Baroque music that includes pieces by Lully, Rameau, Charpentier, Zelenka, and Baroque opera in general. Lots of that music tend to sound almost the same to me. It's even worse if those works are performed by using historical instruments  . Also, many (not all) compositions by Messiaen, Carter, Berg, Webern, Schoenberg, Boulez, Rihm, Kagel, a great deal of avant-garde works overall.

Reger is an interesting composer, but I can tolerate certain works. Examples of works I don't like are the clarinet sonatas Op. 49, which are incredibly plain, tasteless, and BORING.