To play Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 2 loudly in my back garden

[chomalungma]

Instead of the crap that people usually play around here.

There are people on the street who play loud music in their garden. I just wish they would play something decent instead of the crap they play.

Not one person is playing anything I like. I don't think they take requests.

Actually - TBF - one house did have a decent session recently with some rhythm and blues. But that's rare.

So should I just blast out some of the decent classics.

(obviously lighthearted)

Only if it's a Sviatoslav Richter recording.

Ooooh, that's put me right in the mood for Rachmaninov II too
Will blare some out while cooking 🎹🎶🎶

Great shout OP!

You'll all laugh, but my personal favourite piece of classical music, has to be 'Sailing By' by Ronald Binge! Love it and listen to the shipping forecast just for it

Along with Holsts Planets

Every year I spend hours pondering which pieces to vote for. This year I just gave up as I can't decide! Too many fantastic ones!

@HavenDilemma I agree, lovely piece. All his music is fab.

Yanbu. Concerto no.2 is in my top ten.

Maybe followed by a bit of debussy?

@HavenDilemma I too love Sailing By.
It reminds me of those dark days when my baby wouldn't sleep until it had played each evening [weeps]

You can’t beat a bit of Harrison Birtwhistle on a summer afternoon.....

Anyone else think the Harry Potter waltz is rather lovely?

@Youmustbefeckingjoking it is! As is a significant chunk of the Lord of the rings soundtrack

I'll sit out and listen to your music selection! That Rachmaninov always makes me cry - I love it though.

I noticed that underground car-parks in France often have classical music playing through the night... it seems to repel the (possibly car-wrecking?) cool-youths seen elsewhere.

I remember a family camping holiday where a sporty-car roared up to the lonely part of the site we had pitched in. Its occupants played loud music as they set up close to us (despite space all around) late that night. My mother put on something steeply classical (Hindemith's greatest hits perhaps?) as she made breakfast next morning. The newcomers left without protest later that very day.

Absolutely not being unreasonable! It's one of the most beautiful pieces around. And it should only ever be played at full volume.

@SerenDippitty Oh, I think you can

Thankfully our drug-dealing gansta rap fan neighbours moved out last year, but if they were still around, they would be getting Montagus and Capulets, followed by the Conga del Fuego, followed by 1812, followed by a Last night of the Proms medley and perhaps the Swan Lake finale

How about some Schoenberg? Or maybe the Rite of Spring? Leningrad Symphony?

Due to the absence of helicopters over my house on what would have been Glastonbury weekend my annual play of Ride of the valkyries has been put on hold....I may have to play it louder next year.

YABU.

Put O Fortuna from Carmina Burana on maximum volume instead.

I have Elgar’s cello concerto on full blast in the kitchen. Banging tune

Comments like this, is one of the reasons I love Mumsnet.

Am I the only one taking note of all the suggestions?

Now listening to it on my phone yo drown out local DJs set 'for the NHS.

Thanks OP!

Another shout out for Ronald Binge! His music sounds so... redolent of an age before my time, sort of Family Favourites crossed with the people in Ladybird Books.

I got introduced to Yo Yo Ma playing Bach's Goldberg variations by the wonderful film , Captain Fantastic.

For the Ronald Binge fans - Hyperion did four discs of British Light Music Classics, they're an absolute treasure trove (spot the Archers theme in there): www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDS44261/4

My all-time favourite classical recording is the Naxos recording of the first Philip Glass violin concerto, closely followed by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Vaughan Williams CD (Thomas Tallis/Greensleeves/Lark Ascending/Dives & Lazarus)

Ooh, thanks for that, VeryLittleOwl.

Ronald Binge.... what a marvellous name.

Do it. Preferably at the same time someone else is playing their music.

I don't think some people realise that if everyone behaved like them, that it would be hell.

How about a bit of Dvorak? Symphonies 8 or 9 are fab and the Cello Concerto knocks Elgar's out of the park.

Alternatively you could go for some Richard Strauss. I'm a big fan of the tone poems and studied his Four Last Songs for A level. They are divine.

If you want something with a good ending, Sibelius' 5th Symphony is brilliant both to play and to listen to. I'm also quite partial to Nielsen's Inextinguishable Symphony.

I can't really stand Classic FM and detest the Lark Ascending. However, the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is amazing and I also like VW's Concerto Grosso. And to wind down, some Bach. I'm in a B minor Mass mood at the moment