Music that took years to appreciate

[Don]

For me, the prime example would be Bach's organ music - took about 10 years, then it all clicked when I acquired Rogg's boxset on Harmonia Mundi.  Now, I couldn't live well without them.

[MN Dave]

Chopin probably. But with Arrau's nocturnes, it all "clicked" into place.  0:)

[FideLeo]

Beethoven "Hammerklavier" Sonata -- the "clicker": Peter Serkin playing a Graf fortepiano

[Que]

For me, the prime example would be Bach's organ music - took about 10 years, then it all clicked when I acquired Rogg's boxset on Harmonia Mundi.  Now, I couldn't live well without them.

Bach's organ music for me as well, and organ music in general.

Q

[71 dB]

Bach's organ music for me as well, and organ music in general.

Q

Same here. For long I ignored organ music.

[Timmyb]

The rite of spring took a few years to sink in.Also Bach's 48 which I now love with a passion.

[ChamberNut]

Classical Music in general!  As it's been less than 4 years.

I would say Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata for violin and piano
Schubert's Trout Quintet

All works that I love tremendously now.

[prémont]

For me, the prime example would be Bach's organ music - took about 10 years, then it all clicked when I acquired Rogg's boxset on Harmonia Mundi.  Now, I couldn't live well without them.

Quite the opposite with me. Bach´s organ- (and harpsichord) music (and LvB´s symphonies) was from first the stuff which led me to classical music.

[mikkeljs]

Chopin, hmm...and Bartok! Because it smells of folklore.

But of some reason I got into Shostakovich and Copland immediately! Very vierd. 

[not edward]

I took many years to appreciate the Brahms symphonies, even though I connected with the concerti and chamber music quickly.

I was also stuck with the Diabelli Variations for many years. It didn't start to unlock for me till I heard Rosen, and then Schnabel and Richter improved my understanding further.

I still struggle with some of the classical and romantic repertoire: much of Mozart and Schumann leaves me cold.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Bruckner. I tried some of the symphonies off and on for decades, finding most of them interminable, labored, elephantine productions. Somehow about ten years ago the 8th symphony just made sense, and the rest fell into place. (Still mostly interested in 6-9, and I can live without the masses.)

[MN Dave]

Bruckner. I tried some of the symphonies off and on for decades, finding most of them interminable, labored, elephantine productions. Somehow about ten years ago the 8th symphony just made sense, and the rest fell into place. (Still mostly interested in 6-9, and I can live without the masses.)

I'm still put off by Bruckner. Tried a few times. No go. Major sections of yawn.

[karlhenning]

Bruckner. I tried some of the symphonies off and on for decades, finding most of them interminable, labored, elephantine productions. Somehow about ten years ago the 8th symphony just made sense, and the rest fell into place. (Still mostly interested in 6-9, and I can live without the masses.)

I've taken to the Masses first. Still haven't grooved to any the of the symphonies . . . .

[Don]

Quite the opposite with me. Bach´s organ- (and harpsichord) music (and LvB´s symphonies) was from first the stuff which led me to classical music.

Vivaldi led me back to classical music.  Now I avoid him like the plague.

[(poco) Sforzando]

I've taken to the Masses first. Still haven't grooved to any the of the symphonies . . . .

I do love the Te Deum.

[MN Dave]

I do love the Te Deum.

Maybe I'll try that...some day.

[bhodges]

My favorite example is Verdi's Falstaff.  About 20 years ago I walked out of a concert performance of it at intermission.  I wasn't enjoying the score and as far as I could tell, no one onstage really was, either.  The woman I was with said, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" and I said, "Yes, it's time for a margarita." 

Now it's one of my favorite operas.  Lots of lessons to be learned from paying attention to music that you don't care for, that's for sure.

--Bruce

[orbital]

Lots of lessons to be learned from paying attention to music that you don't care for, that's for sure.

Yes, and reading about them helps a lot too. Chausson, whose songs I might have heard here and there did not interest me at all -until I did some reading about them before a concert where they were performed. Knowing beforehand what points to pay attention to as well as  his musical language gave me an instant appreciation once I heard them live.

[bhodges]

So true...

--Bruce

[tab]

Boulez's Second Sonata... And I still don't appreciate it.