Just one work

[jean]

Y: I give in

What about Polly Young, who I'd never heard of until I googled just now?

[Rolmill]

Arriaga: Symphony in D
Byrd: Five-part Mass
Charpentier: Te Deum
Dowland: First Booke of Songes
Elgar: Introduction & Allegro
Faure: Requiem
Greene: Lord let me know mine end
Haydn: Harmoniemesse
Ireland: Greater love hath no man
Janacek: Cunning Little Vixen
Kern: Showboat
Lassus: Le Lagrime di San Pietro
Mozart: Marriage of Figaro
Novak: Slovak Suite
Offenbach: Tales of Hoffmann
Purcell: Hear my Prayer, O Lord
Quilter: Three Shakespeare Songs (with apologies for lack of originality...)
Rossini: Stabat Mater
Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6
Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis (a cheat - based on reputation, not familiarity!)
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
S S Wesley: Ascribe unto the Lord
Xenakis: Pleiades (don't have a recording, but I was at a spellbinding Proms performance a few years ago)
Ysaye: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin
Zelenka: Six Trio Sonatas

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Arnold: Cornish Dances
Boulez: Le Marteau sans Maitre
Copland: Rodeo
Delius: On Cooking the First Hero in Spring
Elgar: Enigmas
Faure: Requiem
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Holst: Planets
Ives: Unanswered Question
Janacek: Sinfonietta
Khatchaturian: Sabre Dance
Ligeti: Poeme Mechanique
Mussorgsky: Pictures
Nono: Second Polish Diary
Orff: Carmina Burana
Penderecki: Threnody
Quantz:
Rachmaninoff: Third Piano Concerto
Szymanowski: King Roger
Tippett: Midsummer Marriage
Ustvolskaya: That Symphony with the Doubvle Basses and Wooden crates
Vivaldi: Four Seasons
Walton: Portsmouth Point
Xennakis: Everayli
Ysaye:
Zemlinski: Lyric Symphony

All following what I think is the remit of the Thread - the first composers whose names immediately came to mind with the initial except for those composers (Beethoven, Mozart, Ferneyhough) whose names weren't immediately associated with any single work. Quantz and Ysaye were the only names I could think of for Q and Y, but I couldn't remember hearing any work of theirs.

[ahinton]

That's not fair to all those composers whose names begin with B, is it?

Or those whose names begin with S, come to that!

[cloughie]

Or those whose names begin with S, come to that!

...and some comedian will come up with the verdict that Xenakis is the board's No 1 composer!

[Bryn]

...
Xenakis: Pleiades (don't have a recording, but I was at a spellbinding Proms performance a few years ago)
...

You might like to try:

Grisey: Le Noir de L'Étoile

[vinteuil]

... always E for b****y Elgar. . .

Let's hear it for Eberl, and Eccles, and Enescu...

[ahinton]

You might like to try:

Grisey: Le Noir de L'Étoile

I've heard it before and, whilst it has its moments - some quite interestingly tense ones - and its disintegratory close is effective - I struggle to find it justifying its duration of little short of an hour.

[ahinton]

... always E for b****y Elgar. . .

Let's hear it for Eberl, and Eccles, and Enescu...

Or yet Eben, Eisler, Eller, Emmanuel or - er - Ellington...

[cloughie]

Or yet Eben, Eisler, Eller, Emmanuel or - er - Ellington...

Or Egk

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And there'll always be Einar Englund.

[Serial_Apologist]

Auric: Les facheux
CPE Bach: Symphony No 1 in D
JJ Castro: El llanto de las sierras
Dallapiccola: Canti di prigionia
Eisler: Song about the Enlivening Effect of Money
Fricker: Symphony No 2
Goehr: Little Symphony
Henze: El Cimarron
Ichyanagi: Symphonic Movement: Kyoto
Jolivet: Ying Yang
Kilar: Krzesany
Lutoslawski: Jeux venitiens
Mayuzumi: Mandala Symphony
Nono: Non consumiamo Marx
Ohana: Etudes d'interpretation
Pousseur: Jeu de miroirs de votre Faust
Quilter: Julia
Roldan: Ritmica No 1
Souster: La Marche
Tailleferre: Harp Concerto
Ullmann: Variations on a Theme of Mozart
Villa Lobos: Nonet - A Brief Impression of the Whole of Brazil
Weill: Der Neue Orpheus
Xenakis: Nuits
Yun: Fluctuations, for orchestra
Zappa: Civilisation Phase III

[Roehre]

Adams: Nixon in china
Baaren, van: Musica per orchestra
Cabezon: Diferencias sobre La Dame le demanda
Daetwyler: Alphorn concerto
Easton: An australian in Paris
Fabri: Ach Vlaender vrie
Gabriel: A sonbra de mis cabellos
Haapalainen: Lemminkainen
Iannaccone: Waiting for Sunrise on the Sound
Jacob: A festival overture
Kabalac: The mystery of time
Lachenmann: Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied
MacCunn: Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Nancarrow: Studies
O'Connell: Piano trio no.2
Paap: Garlands of Music
Queldryk: gloria in Excelsis
Raaff, de: Concerto for Orchestra
Saariaho: ...de la Terre..
Taaffe Zwillich: Celebration
Uccellini: Sonata sopra la Bergamasca
Vaet: Ascendetis post Filium
Wagemans: Alla Marcia
Xeres: No tenga nadie speranca
Yun: Symphony no.1
Zagwijn: Carillonnage - 3 chansons de la Loire

[Roehre]

...Quantz and Ysaye were the only names I could think of for Q and Y, but I couldn't remember hearing any work of theirs.

Quantz composed a quite popular flute concerto, one of the very first flute pieces I got early in my classical music listening career (i.e. 1971).

[pastoralguy]

And Ysaye has the solo violin sonatas. There's a new cd by the wonderful Alina Ibaginova out soon on Hyperion.