For some bizarre and unknowable
reason they played "Nimrod" every f-ing morning for 3 yeara at school as we all traipsed into assembly. It was many decades later before I could bear to listen to it again, and I concede it is an OK piece of music, but I still find it a tough listen
But you do need to give Elgar's "the apostles" a go, specifically Mark Elder's version with the Halle Orchestra