Wow, them's fighting words Stuart.

May I be the first to make a suggestion seeing as how I nixed the Brian Wilson experiment.

Two suggestions with respect to 20th century composers. Try and keep them straight as the names are fairly smilar.

The first is Arthur Honegger, a member of the French group of composers known as "Les Six".

Check out the following links:

http://music.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/0003_satie/lessix.shtml

http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/default.asp?pn=SContentQuery&itemcode=&disctitle=&works=&Composer=honegger&Artist=

On the Naxos link click on the first link on the page and then on to the link labelled "about this recording".

I would suggest listening to his 3rd Symphony available as you can see on Naxos or a more inviting double EMI CD for $18.99 which contains all 5 of his symphonies plus his most famous piece "Pacific 231". I have listened to this work and his first symphony but none of the rest of his work.

The other individual, who has only just come to my attention from various recent reviews, is the contemporary composer Heinz Holliger. The violinist Thomas Zehetmair has a new CD out on ECM of his violin concerto which you can check out here:

http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/New_Series/1800/1890.php?cat=%2FArtists%2FZehetmair+Thomas%23%23Thomas+Zehetmair&we_start=0&lvredir=712

This disc is also available for $18.99 and not hard to track down.

Do we have a date for this thing yet?