"The furious peroration sounds like nothing so much as a horde of demons struggling in a torrent of brandy, the music growing drunker and drunker. Pandemonium, delirium tremens, raving, and above all, noise worse confounded!" - William Forster Abtrop, on Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony

"Stink one can hear"  - Eduard Hanslick, on the Violin Concerto