These are a few of my least favorite things:

[dlu]

What are some of your least favorite things? Least favorite pianists, composers, works/pieces, songs (lol....tash!), conductors, recordings, piano forum members...lol, pianos, ect....

[Tash]

no i'm over the songs thing now i will never mention it again!

[Floristan]

To paraphrase Oscar Hammerstein:

spinet pianos and all double trills,
scores that won't flatten and mind-numbing skills,
these are a few of my....   

[kaff]

I know I'm about to have my head jumped on (and I'm humbly prepared to be educated) but:  Schubert just doesn't do it for me.  I've spent most of my adult life singing, and I never much liked the lieder, and I've just had to play a chunk of his Amajor sonata for an exam, and it was my least favourite piece (although it was the one which the examiner scored highest - 28/30, which is disconcerting).  It's not that I actively dislike his works, just that given the choice, I'd much rather play Bach or Mozart or Chopin or Debussy or Beethoven or Grieg or...anyone, really.

Kathryn

[dlu]

To paraphrase Oscar Hammerstein:

spinet pianos and all double trills,
scores that won't flatten and mind-numbing skills,
these are a few of my....   

YES!!! Double trills!!! Evil, Evil!!!!

Kaff, have you listened to the Wanderer Fantasy? It's "ok". I don't really like Schubert's piano works either (although it's a shame he didn't write a piano concerto)...nor Brahms' (except all his concertos).

DLu

[klavierkonzerte]

beethoven and tchaikovsky violin concerto. why are they very popular???
mozart violin concertos are way better than beethoven.

i also hate most brahms and almost all rachmaninov piano works except there concertos.
rach is way over appreciated specially his c# prelude i listened to it many times but i didn't like it at all like most of his piano works.

i also hate rach for hating the violin
when milstien asked him why didn't he write any violin works he said why would anyone write for the violin when you  have the cello. i think he was burning of jelousy from violinists.

[chozart]

well, it's not really something that I utterly hate, but still often wish it weren't used certain times.. :

--> the ending chord of a minor work being major
(ex: 3 Voice Invention No.2 in C Minor
nice minor passage.. and suddenly.. that c major ending, lol)

Bach often does this, and despite the major respect and adoration I hold for him and his music, I must say... arg!!! The beautiful minorness.. why?? @_@
For my own amusement, I'll play it minor anyway but c'mon..

so yeah... arg! lol

[Tash]

well, it's not really something that I utterly hate, but still often wish it weren't used certain times.. :

--> the ending chord of a minor work being major
(ex: 3 Voice Invention No.2 in C Minor
nice minor passage.. and suddenly.. that c major ending, lol)

Bach often does this, and despite the major respect and adoration I hold for him and his music, I must say... arg!!! The beautiful minorness.. why?? @_@
For my own amusement, I'll play it minor anyway but c'mon..

so yeah... arg! lol

wasn't that because back then they didn't like having pieces being sad and stuff, which is supposedly represented by the minor key or something? my memory on that is very vague and can't really remember what i'm talking about...

oh you know what i hate- the orchestral arrangement of clair de lune it annoys the hell out of me

[will]

 the ending chord of a minor work being major

The worst example in all piano literature of this has got to be Chopin's Etude in C minor Op.10 No.12. An awesome etude until the final 4 chords which sound totally out of place and end awfully on a C major chord. I have heard many versions of this etude and never heard the ending played in a satisfactory way....aaarrggh
Why Chopin?! Why?!

[e60m5]

This thread is shocking to my very eyes!!! 

I love the Schubert Wandererfantasie, I love the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, I love the effect of a well-executed Picardy Third...

 

[willcowskitz]

I hate:

- 18th variation of Rachmaninoff's Paganini rhapsody
- Latino pop
- Uninventive rock music with a guitar, bass and drums, and stupid lyrics
- High school philosophers who think they've developed themselves by learning what well known people have said hundreds or thousands of years ago without ever getting the content
- Mobile chat programmes on TV
- Cosmetology industry commercials
- People who dislike animals
- People whose favourite discussion subject is themselves (such as me here)

[allchopin]

When searching for a beethoven piece, there are listings such as "Beethoven - The Entertainer", and "Chopin - Fur Elise"

tuna

over-complication

small talk

strawberry ice cream

hype over professional sports

internet advertisements (especially gaudy, stab-me-in-the-eyes, flash-based ones)

unfunny, cookie-cutter sitcoms

terminology

jingles

wasted paper

gasoline fueled cars

inefficiency

the telephone (ring especially)

discrimination (prejudice is OK though)

humidity

stupid people

stupid people

public education system (see previous two)

cockroaches

pledging to the flag

standing up too long

sitting down even longer

annoying kids in movies

bibelots

getting a fingernail caught in a piano crack

committments

judging the yellow light

full parking lots

deadlines

[allchopin]

When searching for a classical piece, there are listings such as "Beethoven - The Entertainer", and "Chopin - Fur Elise"

tuna

over-complication

small talk

strawberry ice cream

hype over professional sports

internet advertisements (especially gaudy, stab-me-in-the-eyes, flash-based ones)

unfunny, cookie-cutter sitcoms

terminology

jingles

wasted paper

gasoline fueled cars

inefficiency

the telephone (ring especially)

discrimination (prejudice is OK though)

humidity

stupid people

stupid people

public education system (see previous two)

cockroaches

pledging to the flag

standing up too long

sitting down even longer

annoying kids in movies

bibelots

getting a fingernail caught in a piano crack

committments

judging the yellow light

full parking lots

deadlines