Hi everyone,I'm completely and utterly obsessed with Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, op.22. Hopefully one day I'll get around to at least attempting it!Andrewps. this is my first post!
I wouldn't really think Prokofiev is an acquired taste either. Sonata nos. 1, 2, and 4, along with almost all of his orchestral music, is very aurally accessible and followable.Boulez is an acquired taste, prokofiev is cute ^^
It is incredible how memorably melodic Prokofiev's dissonant style can be. However, I have yet to meet any other young people who like him over that mushy Chopin stuff, which is what led me to conclude he must be an acquired taste. I'm a college student in the US, and it's somewhat unfortunate that the tiny number of people who enjoy classical music mostly like the insufferable Romantics. I am sick of listening to the same Chopin played over and over again.
It's OK. I'm around your age, and I despise most of Chopin's "mushy", repetitive, uninteresting and overly sentimental/"romantic" music.
However, I love Prokofiev and don't care for Boulez.
You are of course completely entitled to an opinion, but something I don't understand is why so many people put Chopin into the "sentimental," "mushy" category. Some of his Preludes, Etudes and Polonaises, and bits of the Ballades, Sonatas and Scherzi, even bits of some Nocturnes, are powerful, assertive and even downright aggressive. Some are tonally ambiguous and many are anything but sentimental.