And, I have a confession to make: Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory makes my blood turn cold! I have a similar problem with Haydn's Emperor Quartet.
Dieter, the thing about publicly declaring one's blind spots and prejudices is that usually arouses the ire of some devotee of the music you have excoriated; for some reason, to many people merely voicing such opinions is tantamount to defiling their grandmother. For instance, like Nick, I simply love some of your pet hates - early Schoenberg, Gerontius, Mendelssohn, Toscanini - and am baffled by your aversion to them, but completely share your dislike of Liszt and Messiaen. I would add to my list (Liszt?) of loathing anything by Britten, Bartok's string quartets, everything Bax wrote except perhaps Tintagel, Wolff's and Brahms' songs, and most of that airy-fairy British folk-song stuff - and so it goes.
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