Bored by Brahms? Do you find Telemann tedious?

What are the classical pieces that bring you out in a cold sweat in the concert hall? Tom Service confesses to his bête noire, what is yours?This month's BBC Music Magazine dares to ask music critics which classical works make them "weep with boredom". There's some suprising answers. Fiona Maddocks yawns through the tedium of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas - up to the sublime Dido's lament, the Times's Richard Morrison reckons Vivaldi's Gloria is the "dreariest thing to drip from the Red Priest's qu...

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