270 Great 20th Century Works

I told you I would do it!  But the list is longer than I expected...
I selected only one interesting work per composer, to make the list
shorter!  These are all pieces *I* like, but I can't say they are
"essential":-) This time, the list includes famous and little known
composers:

Adams: Chamber Symphony
Ades: ...But All Shall be Well
Aho: Violin Concerto
Alwyn: Overture for a Masque
Antheil: Symphony No 1
Aperghis: Recitations
Arnold: Concerto for two pianos
Auric: Film scores (too difficult to choose *one*!)
Bacewitz: String Concerto
Bacri: Cello Concerto
Baird: Four Sonnets After Shakespeare
Balada: Violin Concerto No 1
Balakauskas: Concerto for oboe et harpsichord
Barati: Chant of Darkness
Barber: Sonata for piano
Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussions and Celesta
Bax: Symphony no 3
Berg: Violin Concerto
Berio: Folk Songs
Berkeley: Divertimento
Bernstein: Serenade
Blacher: Paganini Variations
Bliss: Morning Heroes
Bloch: Violin Concerto
Bolcom: Piano Concerto
Boughton: Oboe Concerto No 1
Boulez: Dialogue de l'ombre double
Boydell: Concerto for violin
Braga Santos: Symphony No 3
Brian: Symphony No 3
Britten: Les Illuminations
Busoni: Piano Concerto
Canteloube: Chants d?Auvergne
Caplet: Prieres
Casella: Paganininiana
Castelnuevo-Tedesco: Guitar Concerto No 1
Chaminade: Concertstuk
Chostakovitch: Symphony No 14
Coles: Fra Giacomo
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Corigliano: Oboe Concerto
Cras: La Fl=FBte de Pan
Creston: Symphony No 2
Crumb: Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death
Daetwyler: Three Dances for strings and percussions
Dallapicola: Piccola Musica
Delage: Quatre poemes indous
Danielpour: Metamorphosis
de Falla: The Three Corned Hat
Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis
Delius: Sea Drift
Denisov: Five Paganini Etudes
Diamond: Symphony No 2
Dohnanyi: String Trio
Doppler: Symphony No 5
Druckman: Viola Concerto
Dupre: Organ Concerto Op. 31
Durufle: Requiem
Dusapin: Medeamaterial
Dutilleux: Metaboles
Eisler: Hollywood Liederbuch
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
Enesco: Dixtuor
Englund: Symphony no 4
Escaich: Symphony no 1
Faure: Trio Op. 120
Fine: Diversions
Finzi: Concerto for clarinette
Floyd: Susannah
Foss: Songs of the Song
Francaix: Scuola di Ballo
Frankel: Violin Concerto
Freedman: Rose Latulippe (Suite)
Gerhard: Concerto for piano
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Ginastera: Estancia
Giraud: To One in Paradise
Glass: Violin Cocnerto
Gliere: Symphony No 3
Goldschmidt: Clarinet Concerto
Goossens: Symphony no 2
Gorecki: Vieille musique polonaise
Goubaidoulina: Offertorium
Grainger: The Warriors
Grechnaninov: Symphony No 3
Gruber: Trompet Concerto
Guarnieri: Symphony No 2
Halffter: Sonatina (Ballet)
Hanson: Symphony No 4
Harris: Symphony No 3
Harrison: Violin Concerto
Hartmann: Symphony No 7
Harty: Children of Lyr
Henze: Ondine
Hermann: Psycho
Hindemith: Kammermusik No 1
Holmboe: Symphony No 8
Holst: The Planets
Honegger: Symphony No 4
Hovhaness: Symphony No 2
Hummel: Percussion Concerto
Ibert: Tropismes for des amours imaginaires
Ifukube: Japanese Rhapsody
Imbrie: To A Traveler
Ireland: Sonata for violin and piano No 2
Ivanovs: Symphony No 4
Ives: Central Park in the Dark
Janacek: Quartet No 2
Jolivet: Chant de Linos
Jongen: Symphonie concertante Op. 81
Kabalevsky: Symphony No 2
Kabelac: Symphony No 8
Kagel: Les idees fixes
Kalabis: Concerto for orchestre
Kancheli: Symphony No 6
Kapp: Symphony No 2
Kasparov: Devil?s Trill
Kenins: Schubert Variations
Kernis: Lament
Khatchaturian: Violin Concerto
Kilar: Exodus
Klami: The Adventure of Lemminkainen
Kodaly: Duo
Koechlin: Livre de la Jungle
Kokkonen: Requiem
Korngold: Symphony
Kraza: Chamber Music
Kurtag: Scenes from a Novel
Lajtha: Symphony No 8
Landowski: Sympohonie No 1 "Jean de la Peur"
Langgaard: Music of the Spheres
Larsen: String Symphony
Larsson: Viola Concertino
Le Flem: Symphony No 1
Leifs: Halka
Lieberson: Drala
Ligeti: =C9tudes
Lilburn: Symphony No. 1
Lindberg: Cantigas
Lutoslawski: Symphony No 3
Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No 2
Madetoja: Les Ostrobothniens (Suite)
Magnard: Symphony No 3
Mahler: Symphony No 9
Malipiero: Symphony No 10
Markevitch: Rebus
Martin: Petite symphonie concertante
Martinu: Concerto for double string orchestra
Mattews: Broken Symmetry
Maxwell Davies: Into the Labyrinth
McCabe: Quartet No 5
McPhee: Symphony No 2
Medtner: Piano Concerto No 2
Mennin: Symphony No 3
Menotti: Apocalypse
Merikanto: Genesis
Messiaen  Eclairs sur l?Au-dela
Milhaud: La Creation du monde
Moeran: Cello Concerto
Mompou: Combat del Somni
Monk: Facing North
Monkranjac: Lyrical Poem
Montsalvatge: Requiem
Moret: Hymnes de Silence
Murail: Serendip
Myaskovsky: Symphony No 24
Nono: Il Canto Sospeso
Novak: De Profundis
Nyman: MGV
Ohana: Le Livre des Prodiges
Panufnik: Sinfonia Sacra
Part: Fratres
Penderecki: St Lukes Passion
Perle: Piano Concerto No 2
Pettersson: Symphony No 6
Pfitzner: Palestrina (Preludes)
Piazzolla: Maria de Buenos Aires
Piston: Violin Concerto No 1
Pizzetti: Rondo Veneziano
Porter: Songs
Poulenc: Figure Humaine
Pousseur: Aquarius-Memorial
Prevost: Hiver dans lE2me
Prokofiev: Symphony No 5
Rabeau: Marouf (Suite)
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Danses
Ramovs: Concerto for Violin and Viola
Rangstrom: Symphony No 4
Rautavaara: Symphony No 7
Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin
Rawsthorne: Concertante pastorale
Reger: Mozart Variations
Reich: Tehillim
Respigni: Trittico Botticelliano
Revueltas: Hommage a Garcia Lorca
Rihm: Jagden und Formen
Rodrigo: Harp Concerto (Serena)
Rorem: Symphony No 3
Rosenberg: Symphoy No 4
Rosza: Theme and variations for violin and cello
Rota: Bassoon Concerto
Rouse: Symphony No 2
Roussel: Symphony No 3
Ruders: Corpus cum figuris
Rutavaara: Symphony No 8
Rutter: Requiem
Saariaho: Chateau de lE2me
Sallinen: Cello Concerto
Salonen: LA Variations
Satie: Parade
Scelci: Khoon
Schafer: Quatuor no 7
Schedrin: Old Russian Circus Music
Schmidt: Symphony no 3
Schmitt: Psaume 47
Schnittke: Requiem after "Don Carlos"
Schoenberg: A Survivor of Warsaw
Schreker: Valse lente
Schuloff: Concerto for fl=FBte and piano
Schuman: New England Tryptich
Scriabine: Poeme de l?Extase
Searle: Symphony No 2
Seygun: Concerto for piano No 1
Sibelius: Symphony No 5
Silvestrov: Kitsch-Music
Simpson: Symphony No 5
Skalkotas: Double Bass Concerto
Slavenski: Balkanophonia
Stenhammar: Symphony No 2
Stockhausen: Stimmung
Strauss: Four Last Lieder
Stravinsky: Renard
Suchon: Metamorphosis
Suk: Asrael
Szymanovski: Symphony concertante Op. 60
Takemitsu: Tree Lines
Taverner: "Protecting Veil"
Thomson (Virgil): Symphony on a Hymn
Thomson (Randall): Symphony No 2
Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Tomasi: Trumpet Concerto
Torke: Yellow Pages
Tormis: Litany To Thunder
Tubin: Symphony No 3
Turnage: Greek
Tveitt: Concerto for piano No 5
Ustvolskaya: Octet
Vainberg: Symphony No 10
Varese: Arcana
Vasks: Stimmen
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3
Vierne: Quintette avec piano
Villa-Lobos: Quatuor no 5
Vivier: Shiraz
Vermeulen: Symphony No 2
Voormolen: Concerto for two oboes
Walton: The Quest
Ward: Sacred Songs for Pantheists
Weiner: Serenade
Warlock: Capriol Suite
Waxman: Sinfonietta
Webern: Symphony
Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper
Willson: Symphony No 2
Wiren: Symphony No 4
Wolf-Ferrari: Susanna (Overture)
Wolpe: Yigdal Cantata
Xenakis: Nuits
Zappa: Dupree?s Paradise
Zemlinsky: Lyrical Symphony
Zimmermann: Requiem for a Young Poet

What a great and diverse century of music! Sorry for that long message...

Daniel