Nope too modern. I just find it grates. I especially hate Shostakovich.

I suggested the 2nd Piano Concerto as it's written in the romantic style.  The 2nd movement is especially beautiful, quite reminiscent of the Grieg.

It strikes me as a caricature, like a "look I can do this as well" but he cannot get rid of his desire to play around with natural tonality and basically mess up the tune. I have a basic dislike of this man and if you met us and talked to Nadia she would tell you a few things about him from a Russian point of view. He was a little talent Communist Party arse licker. He was basically the first modern political composer who did what he was told.

Well indeed. Listen to, say, Radu Lupu playing the Grieg and you hear greatness and much more than just the notes.

I am not going to argue with you but you are being naive, everything cultural was controlled by the party and if you didn't toe the line you ended up in Siberia or dead. For the Soviet Union music was political. Nadia (my wife) was born and brought up in Moscow in the Soviet era and came to the UK after university so she knows about it. Her interest in Russian composers ends in Tchaikovsky and everything after that is stained with party control and influence according to her. Great talents were suppressed if they didn't fit (and you will never have heard of them) and nondescript arse lickers were promoted.

Leave it simply as I don't like him and you do.

On a pointy of opinion:

Disagreeing of course, is all a normal part of discussion. As I disagree with point a) (apart from the last bit) I will ignore point b)

I almost agree that Genesis were one of the finest rock bands. Sadly, I find them mostly boring and lacking true musical depth these days