The most boring music you've heard

[Bonehelm]

For those folks who think Bruckner is boring, I strongly recommend you to get a copy of Wand/HvK/Jochum/Celly's 4th or 7th, listen to it over and over again, and then tell us your thoughts again. It won't take very long before those two charming, melodiously rich symphonies grab you in your soul.

If anyone's advice were to be taken seriously in this thread, they are M forever and Larry Rinkel. This is not only my opinion, those two are known here as knowled

[Bonehelm]

For those folks who think Bruckner is boring, I strongly recommend you to get a copy of Wand/HvK/Jochum/Celly's 4th or 7th, listen to it over and over again, and then tell us your thoughts again. It won't take very long before those two charming, melodiously rich symphonies grab you in your soul.

If anyone's advice were to be taken seriously in this thread, they are M forever and Larry Rinkel. This is not only my opinion, those two are known here as knowledgeable music scholars.

[DavidW]

hopefully not at the same time.....

That would be exactly like that episode of Futurama where Bender became human.  He died in a week.

[mahlertitan]

For those folks who think Bruckner is boring, I strongly recommend you to get a copy of Wand/HvK/Jochum/Celly's 4th or 7th, listen to it over and over again, and then tell us your thoughts again. It won't take very long before those two charming, melodiously rich symphonies grab you in your soul.

If anyone's advice were to be taken seriously in this thread, they are M forever and Larry Rinkel. This is not only my opinion, those two are known here as knowled

Heinz Rogner's 4th, and Schuricht's 5th, and of course, 6th with solti.

[vandermolen]

The most boring work I know is "Ein Heldenleben" by Richard Strauss

[quintett op.57]

One of my favourite works.
Ein Heldenleben is a fantastic piece, various in textures, forms, rythms and melodies, with a very rich orchestration.

What a great thread, we talk mainly about my favourite composers : haydn, Bruckner and now Strauss

[vandermolen]

One of my favourite works.
Ein Heldenleben is a fantastic piece, various in textures, forms, rythms and melodies, with a very rich orchestration.

What a great thread, we talk mainly about my favourite composers : haydn, Bruckner and now Strauss

Right, I must listen to it again to see if I like it more

[andy]

The most boring work I know is "Ein Heldenleben" by Richard Strauss

I find it interesting, but verging on boring, but I think this is due to the recording I have. I've got Reiner and the CSO and it just doesn't do it for me... sounds analytic and lifeless... anyone got any recommendations?

[Chaszz]

Boring...Haydn (sorry, Gurn).

Also Wagner's non-instrumental music is anything BUT boring (sorry again, Gurn).

Actually this all just proves that one man's meat is another's poison... If a composer is still popular more than a century after his death, those who do not get him simply do not get him, which is a lesson for both Gurn and myself. And for a certain person we both once knew well, who simply did not get Bach.  It is all, or not, in the genes and the little chemicals.

Chaszz

[Papageno]

Some American love-song by a castrato-like pop singer, what's his name?

[Scriptavolant]

Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Medtner. As a whole piano virtuosity; to me it is the musical equivalent of verbosity in speech.
For what I remember, I've found boring most Bax, some Raff, Elgar symphonies.

[mahlertitan]

Some American love-song by a castrato-like pop singer, what's his name?

oh, you reminded me, castratos, they bored me, and also freak me out at the same time (they way the hit those notes).

[quintett op.57]

Boring...Haydn (sorry, Gurn).

One thing is sure. Haydn's music is far from being easy for our XXIth century's ears.
His concertos, the easiest of his works in my opinion, are not the most famous.
There is still something for you to discover in music.

[Papageno]

oh, you reminded me, castratos, they bored me, and also freak me out at the same time (they way the hit those notes).

Blunt is his name.  I remember.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Blunt is his name.  I remember.

Blunt. James Blunt.

[karlhenning]

"Blunt by name but not by nature . . . ."

[71 dB]

I find it interesting, but verging on boring, but I think this is due to the recording I have. I've got Reiner and the CSO and it just doesn't do it for me... sounds analytic and lifeless... anyone got any recommendations?

I have National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland/Gerhard Markson on Naxos and I don't find it boring at all. 

[Christo]

The most boring work I know is "Ein Heldenleben" by Richard Strauss

Strongly seconded, but somehow we agree in these matters often, don't we? 

[ChamberNut]

The most boring work I know is "Ein Heldenleben" by Richard Strauss

Oh my!    Oh well, to each their own.  One of the most exciting works I heard live at a concert was Ein Heldenleben.

[LVB_opus.125]

I met a man recently who claimed his son was a composer of "classical music" and he told me to check out his website. I won't post it here because it doesn't matter. Anyways, my hopes were dashed immediately when I heard that it was actually pretty sounding new age music designed to be listened to during yoga, or while you're lighting incense, surrounded by scented candles, and taking a bubble bath all at the same time. Yikes! That's gotta be the most boring music I can imagine. Although the electronic/ambient genre has some artists of actual merit, including: Brian Eno, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Lustmord, and so on. It's "background" music for atmosphere but their music is actually interesting and artistic, rather than functional "mood" music.

I still don't understand how that boy's father could have this new age stuff confused with the likes of Mozart and Beethoven!