Rob Baldwin: >Who out there can recommend other composers in terms of their late >works? For example, I consider several of Prokofiev's late works to be >underappreciated such as the (once) so-called "Children's" Symphony, #7 ... > >Other composers & works that seem to me to be quintessentially late-period >masterpieces: Mozart's Clarinet Concerto; Janacek's opera "The Cunning >Little Vixen"; and Brahm's late piano works, especially the Intermezzi. Great choices. I'd add Prokofiev: Sinfonia concertante, a ripping work for cello and orchestra - my favorite of his concerti Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (of course), Sonata for solo violin Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier and Musical Offering Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass Mozart: Don Giovanni, Magic Flute, Symphonies 39 and 40, G-minor quintet, and, yes, the Requiem Beethoven: Elegaic Song for string quartet and chorus Brahms: 4 Serious Songs Faure: Piano Trio Debussy: 4 Ballads of Villon, Etudes, En blanc et noir Ravel: both piano concerti, Don Quichotte a Dulcinee, L'Enfant et les sortileges Falla: Atlantida, El Retablo de Maese Pedro Elgar: Cello Concerto, Symphony No. 3 Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde, Symphonies 9 and 10 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 Sessions: When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd Bloch: Sinfonia breve, Suites for solo violin, Suite hebraique Shostakovich: Symphonies 13 & 14, violin sonata, string quartets 13 on Klebanov: Japanese Silhouettes, Viola Concerto Pettersson: Viola Concerto Britten: Death in Venice Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 8 & 9, Hodie, Pilgrim's Progress, 4 Last Songs, 3 Shakespeare Songs Verdi: Falstaff Hindemith: Mass, 12 5-voiced Madrigals Korngold: Symphony Puccini: Turandot Weill: Street Scene, Lost in the Stars Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith, Gloria Copland: Inscapes, Piano Quartet Lees: Symphony No. 4 Piston: Violin Concerto No. 2 Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances Schoenberg: De profundis Webern: Variations for Orchestra, Cantata No. 2 Poulenc: Gloria, Sept repons, Oboe Sonata Martinu: Epic of Gilgamesh, The Greek Passion, 3 Frescoes of Piero della Francesca, Intermezzo, Cello Concerto No. 2 Janacek: The Adventures of Mr. Broucek, Sinfonietta, Glagliotic Mass, Capriccio for Piano (lh) Strauss: Capriccio, 2nd horn concerto, oboe concerto, Metamorphosen, 4 Last Songs, Duett-Concertino Dvorak: Symphonies 8 & 9, String Quartets 12 & 13 Berlioz: Les Troyens Schubert: Winterreise, Cello Quintet, Symphonies 8 & 9, String Quartets from 10 on. I realize this is nothing more than a laundry list, but you might try these if you don't know them. Steve Schwartz