What are your top 5 favorite 20th century choral/orchestral works?

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kyjo

Looks like I've never posted in this thread, so here goes:

Duruflé: Requiem
Lloyd: A Symphonic Mass
Rachmaninov: The Bells
Sallinen: Songs of Life and Death
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast


Honorable mentions:

Barber: Prayers of Kierkegaard
L. Boulanger: Psalm 130 "Du fond de l'abîme"
Howells: Hymnus Paradisi, Missa Sabrinensis
Janáček: Glagolitic Mass
Kokkonen: Requiem
Mahler: Symphony no. 8
Martinů: Czech Rhapsody, Field Mass
Poulenc: Gloria
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
Shostakovich: The Execution of Stepan Razin
Szymanowski: Stabat Mater
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

amw

Janáček Mass
Stravinsky Requiem Canticles
Scelsi Uaxuctum
Maceda Pagsamba (for a given value of "orchestra")
Xenakis Cendrées

also considered:
Stravinsky Threni
Penderecki Utrenja
Bussotti Rara Requiem