Ives: Yellow LEAVES (Debussy: Feuilles mortes)?

The Henze sounds as if it's a poem, of sorts. The Martinu title is exactly the same as Debussy's.

Tom could help with one of the Ives. 

More of an Ode...

Yes, Richard, although I was thinking of Book 1 No.7 Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest, which seems a more direct link. I know very little Henze, other than Undine and the Six Songs from the Arabian. I also saw a DVD of L'Upupa, which is a beautiful opera, in my view, after someone on the old boards recommended it in the 'best 20thC opera' thread. Must investigate more - do you have any particular recommendation?

To round off the missing Préludes:

Book 1
Ives - Tom Sails Away (Voiles)
Martinů - Niponari, song cycle H. 68 No. 5, Footsteps in the Snow (Des pas sur la neige)
Or Henze - Ode to the West Wind (Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest)
Donizetti – La fille du regiment (La fille aux cheveux de lin)
Jennifer Higdon – blue cathedral (La cathédrale engloutie)
Grieg - Småtrold (Puck), Op. 71/3 (La danse de Puck)
Glazunov - Chant du ménéstral (Minstrels)

Book 2
Glass – The Fog of War (Brouillards)
Ives - General William Booth Enters into Heaven (General Lavine)
Or Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit, for piano 1. Ondine (Ondine)
Stravinsky – Fireworks (Feux d’artifice)

There's a Henze thread in 20th Century (I think there was a much longer one at TOP as well). A few years ago DG brought out a series called "The Henze Collection" which reissued most of the material they'd recorded in the 1960s and 70s, all of which is pretty good. If you're articularly interested in his operas, the tragicomic Der Junge Lord is complete in that edition and worth hearing, as is a disc of excerpts from Elegie für junge Liebende which is absolutely wonderful (as is its Auden libretto). I'm not so keen on Die Bassariden or L'Upupa myself, We come to the river has never been released as far as I know, and I haven't heard The English Cat. I once heard the enormously long lyric opera König Hirsch on the radio, and I'd go quite some way to have the oportunity to hear it again, or preferably see it.

Britten and Weber operas feature Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream and Oberon); Debussy = Danse de Puck, but Wagner's Die Feen, which you might expect to contain Puck, doesn't. Any good?

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is correct. The Wagner, Weber, and Debussy are repertory works.