In the spirit of Fierydog's last few fun questions...?

Rakhmaninov's 2nd piano concerto.

Ditto the 2nd symphony

Claire de goddamn Lune

Just about anything by Tubin

And yes, 'Wellington's Victory'.

(How dare you list Grieg! Heretic!)

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Edit for Fierydog: Actually, I'm quite fond of Rach. 2. I only listed it because I knew it would enrage someone!

How dare anyone choose the Rach 2!?!?! or the C# minor Prelude! Rachmaninoff only had reason to hate the latter because its such an amazing composition and everyone wanted it as an encore =P The C# Minor is understandable, but really, she doesn't like the Rach 2????!!!

1. Islamey - Balakirev (UGHHH!!!!!)

2. Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement - Beethoven

3. Flight of the Bumblebee - Rimsky-Korsakov

4. Opus Clavicembalisticum - Sorabji (Ok I can actually say I have listened to the whole thing. It really does just suck!)

5. Prelude in C Major WTC Book #1 - Bach

Honorable Mentions:

Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach

Alla Turca - Mozart

Rage over a Lost Penny - Beethoven

Morning - Grieg

Cheers!

I'M APPALLED Rach 3??? Personally, I think it's more beautiful than Rach 2... There's music underneath the pyrotechnics if you just listen =P

SCHUMANNN??? IT"S SO BEAUTIFUL!!

okay I understand Tchaikovsky...

And Islamey??? If the pianist plays it like a fantasy and not like a toccata, then it's a beautiful piece of music.

1. Eck, if I hear another Mendelssohn violin concerto i'll die...

2. I can't stand the theme from Prokofiev's 1st concerto... I don't know what it is, I can't stand it.

3. Yeah I've heard too many Grieg concertos....

4. RACHMANINOFF PRELUDE IN C#MINOR gahhhhhh

5. Brahms Hungarian rhapsody no. 5. ugh. ugh. ugh.

Honorable mentions?

Chopin nocturne 9/2

Liszt Wilde Jagd

Yeah Shostakovich 2nd jazz waltz for sure

scene de ballet (curse you andre rieu)

more coming soon...

Maybe this is cheating, but I'm going to provide two different lists.

Pieces I wish that I had never heard and wish never to hear again:

1. Everything by Mahler

2. Everything by Bruckner

3. Everything by Shostakovich

4. Everything by Schoenberg except for "Verklarte Nacht"

5. Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana"

Pieces that are actually okay, but I hear too often:

1. Beethoven's Symphony No. 2

2. Handel's "Messiah"

3. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 (twenty-eight minutes of nothing surrounding the big

theme that became the song "Full Moon and Empty Arms")

4. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 (a technical tour de force for the pianist, containing

virtually no actual music)

5. Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"

Oh, jeez. You've opened a lovely can of worms.

1. Chopin Nocturne op. 9-2, for obvious reasons.

2. Bruch Violin Concerto 1. Not-so-special and severely overplayed.

3. If one more person comes to me with a Romberg Sonata, I will beat them with their cello.

4. Tchaik's 1812 Overture. Gah! It's so annoying!

5. Saint-Saens' The Swan. Blah.

There are other pieces, and they change every day. I am tired of constantly hearing Clair de Lune, but I don't necessarily hate it. That one Mozart rondo has a way of worming itself into my head at the times I'm least equipped to get rid of it. And how could I forget Mozart's Requiem? Or Eine Kleine Nachtmusik?

Sometimes I find myself quite sick of the Dance of the Seven Veils from R. Strauss's Salome, an annoyance borne from everyone at my school constantly bursting out into the theme.

||: ba ba ba DUNNAna! duuuuh-na! :||

Also, I would like to add that, while this is not classical, I am finding it hard to avoid the Yiruma zombies. The epidemic just hit my town, and everyone's catching it.

Nice question! Only 5? That's going to be tough! Here goes:

1. Bruch - Violin Concerto No 1 (sick, sick, SICK, of this 2nd-rate piece's unwarranted popularity)

2. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 5 (his weakest symphony and his most-often played. The finale REALLY 'sucks')

3. Beethoven - Battle Symphony (Wellingtons Sieg) (what WAS he thinking??)

4. 'Bach' - Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 (will they strip it of it sBWV number, I wonder, once it's finally proved not to be by Bach?

5. 'Albinoni' - Adagio in G minor (I am not fond of Sr Giazzotto's phony pastiche).

Dishonourable mentions:

- Anything by Philip Glass (except his film scores)

- Anything by Michael Nyman (except 'Out of the Ruins')

- Beethoven - Violin Romance No 2

- Brahms - German Requiem (perhaps should have gone in the 'top 5')

- Liszt - Liebestraum No 3

Well, I'll agree with you on Beethoven's "Wellington's Victory"/Phillip Glass, anything (God! - how monotonously repetitious and boring).

And would add the following:

Rachmaninoff - "3rd Piano Concerto": what a bunch of pyrotechnics gobbledygook. DOUBLE YUK!

[you probably want believe this, coming from me] with the exception of the Overture, Wagner's "Rhenzi".

Beethoven's "Emperor", 5th piano concerto; I don't know what it is about this work, but it drives me up the wall.

His, Beethoven's one and only opera, "Fidelio": love the four overtures written for it, but find the opera itself, sort of like warmed over Rossini - just not my 'cup of tea'.

After the "Rite of Spring", anything by Stravinsky.

I could most likely name a few others; but it's late, I'm tired and need to hit the hay.

Thanks for the question (am sure I'll get more thrown rotten tomatoes than you - if not, would be greatly surprised).

Alberich

Most of the treacly waltzes by Johann Strauss

Bach - Anna Magdalene Notebook, D Minor Prelude

Tchaikowsky - the big ballets

Elgar - well, most anything, but particularly Pomp and Circumstance.

Bizet - Carmen Suite

For the record, I enjoy Wellington's Victory and quite a lot by Glass. The horrible popularization of Rachmaninoff Symphony 2 threw me off of it for quite a while, but I got over it after many years..

Your numbers four and five are givens. (fall in the too easy category)

Let's see...

1. Carnival of Venice

2. Shostakovitch: Second Jazz Waltz (All the Andre Rieu specials on TV have ruined that one for me)

3. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite (Especially for the six months leading up to Christmas and the six that follow)

4. Carl Orff: Carmina Burana (the whole thing, not just O Fortuna)

5. Oh how I hate to throw these in the ring: Beethoven "Ode to Joy", Symphony 7, no. 2., Symphony 5, no. 1., Bach: "Air on the G string", "Sleeper's Awake", "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", Cello suite I - Prelude in Gm, Little Fugue in Gm.

... Grieg would have hit my list too, but Shostakovitch was on, damn it.

Liszt- La Campanella

Chopin- Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2

Bach (or whoever else)- Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Tchaikovsky- Piano Concerto in Bb, I agree

Rachmaninov- Preldue in C sharp minor, I also agree.

Richard Nanes' music is dreadful, and I don't care for it at all. I also don't care for Philip Glass' music. Both composers write music that I don't care for. Definitely those two are in first.

It's really hard to choose three more - I'll admit that I don't care for Bach's WTC 15th fugue, book 1. I guess I'll say that Liszt's Sonata in B minor has some scary movements - most others that I know think it makes them feel as if they were in a haunted house.

And I can't choose one more...

Will you allow me to edit later?

Best, M

Edit: Don't care about Prelude No.1 in C major by Bach in the first book of WTC because it's not something I like to listen to, AND, it's too simple to interpret.