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)

Music is generally ok by me.

My Filipino neighbours love blasting their karaoke 80s ballads & Chinese love songs but they're healthcare workers too so I get them.
(All the Filipinos I know have karaoke at home).

Sometimes my next door neighbour plays house & trance but I like it so that's ok too.

BUT the lad at the back is driving me mad with his endless noisy football playing especially when it hits the fence which I part paid for.
I will make sure that if he breaks it, his dad pays for it!!!

We are Team 1812 here! Or Jurassic Park (love hearing the film and game music within all the usual stuff here).

Brunch violin concerto is my choice. Neighbour odour the front building a porch and listening to the dirty dancing soundtrack. His wife is indoors doing Japanese karaoke. Son in garden playing something with a heavy baseline. My ears hurt.

Brunch? Yes please!

Do it. I was trying to WFH one day last week when the neighbour opened her windows and started shrieking along to Britney Spears while spring cleaning. Quick blast of Zadok the Priest followed by the 1812 Overture and she’d stopped when I turned my music off 😁

Yes please! One of my favourite ever pieces of music.

I can't believe that it's gone down to number 4 on the Classic FM hall of fame this year
It's at least given me the opportunity to blast it out agian!

Listening to it at the moment.

on the Hall of Fame

The Rach 2 is good, but the Rach 3 is better!

Could I put in a word for some Gregorian chant. It was the only bloody thing that got DS to sleep - that and David Attenborough narrating anything.

I can still hear DS saying “play the church music, mummy” and he would eventually nod off. I should say he is now a strapping 6 foot 3 bass guitarist who says things like “ hey , mawbags, check out this bass line. Epic” and plays obscure music to me. How times have changed

Oh, no - it's the Lark!

Yes please- I lived where a neighbour practised his Spanish guitar outdoors. He was really good and it was magical.

I live next door but 1 to a pub which sometimes has loud sweary people outside smoking. I find the first act of Carmen most effective

My son loves Liebestraüme No. 3 by Franz Liszt and is learning to play Rach No 2

m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=u5ZcqMjDHGI

Is that your son playing sparkles, he's very good.

If that's your son, @sparkles18, he plays beautifully, but maybe you don't want to give away personal details by linking to it?

Pedantic correction : it's Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, not variations
As you were

Completely unreasonable.

What about a nice bit of Renaissance Music? Some Tallis, Gombert of de Victoria?

Maybe even push the boat out and go a bit Baroque.

What about a nice bit of Renaissance Music? Some Tallis, Gombert of de Victoria?

Absolutely! Or my absolute favourite: Palestrina.

You should blast out Verdi's Requiem. I still can't believe it was #215. Maybe next year...

Or Vivaldi's Gloria?