Mark Shanks wrote: >I hope that other list members have some favorites they'd like to >recommend. Hard to resist to such an invitation. Among (not already mentioned) unfinished (last) works, I'd like to point out these four: Bartok: Viola concerto Falla: Atlantis Haydn: Quartet opus 103 Martinu: Isaiah's Prophecy Among final (but finished) works with a "special message" (even if not always intended by the composer): Faure: String quartet (last work of a famous but isolated composer - because of his deafness) Franck: Three organ chorals Magnard: Symphony Nr.4 (the composer died a short time after finishing this symphony, defending his house against the German in 1914; the manuscript was sent just a week before in Paris and therefore miraculously escaped the fire) Zimmermann: Ekklesiastische Aktion (the composer committed suicide a few days after finishing this work) Duparc: La vie anterieure (the composer died... 49 years later) Simon Corley [log in to unmask]