If I were forced by some malevolent power to choose a single piece of 20th century music as my very favourite I'd choose Rhapsody In Blue

Probably Bartok's Dance Suite for me.

He's tried to get me going on the Second Viennese School. No bloody danger

A lot of their stuff is intensely emotional if you let yourself hear it - the dignified farewell to life in Schoenberg's String Trio (one of the last things he wrote, after nearly dying of a heart attack), the wacky ragtime-ish-ness of Webern's Piano Variations and Concerto for Nine Instruments, the nature poetry in a lot of Webern's music (it's not so far from Schubert).

Something got me listening to Ingram Marshall again yesterday - something like America's Arvo Part but without the heavy-handed religiosity. And I can see myself listening to more of Giya Kancheli. That sort of seriousness is what we need right now.