Your least favorites....

Lots of lists are compiled about the most favorite operas, conductors, singers, even opera houses and concert halls.  Today, Norman Lebrecht shared:

The pianist Katya Apekisheva has started a social-media ball rolling with a list of the ten composers or works of music that irritate her the most.

Katya’s list*:

1. Vivaldi. Four seasons
2. Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals
3. ABBA
4. About 85% of music by Liszt
5. Berlioz
6. Ending of Tchaikovsky piano trio ( around 8 last pages)
7. Neapolitan song ‘O Sole Mio’
8. Beethoven Fur Elise
9. Virtuoso violin music, such as Sarasate and Weniawsky
10. Brindisi from Traviata

And Norman's own list?

1 National music
2 Tchaikovsky (except last 3 syms and violin concerto)
3 Anything with Moon in the title – any language – lune, mondo &c.
4 Mahler’s Adagietto except when played within the fifth symphony
5 Vivaldi’s you-know-what
6 Messiaen
7 Bernstein’s Mass
8 Anything by Puccini after Bohème
9 Elgar’s oratorios
10 Barber’s Adagio

This may be the funniest, from one Colin Reed:

1. 1 of 5 pieces written by Karl Jenkins
2. 1 of 5 pieces sung by Katherine Jenkins
3. 2 of 5 pieces written by Karl Jenkins
4. 2 of 5 pieces sung by Katherine Jenkins
5 – 10 repeat ad libitum, ad nauseum

So far, some 81 of Norman's readers have chimed in.  From Mozart haters to those who can't stand much after 1920, the results are at least interesting.  Their comments can be found here.

And no, I'm not offering my own list....