QUOTE(elisabeth_rb @ Jun 11 2009, 09:37 AM)

I much prefer the older ones, which are more tuneful.

Hoffmeister, Telemann etc. I'm not at all big on 20C music.
All time fave viola piece is the Glazunov Elegy.

Agreed the Glasunov is excellent.
From the list I would pick the Walton. He also composed an excellent "Suite for Viola and small orchestra". I prefer solo works or sonatas though. The Shostakovich sonata is wonderful as is Britten's Lachrymae.