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