To mark this year's Armistice Commemoration, a sequence of music written about the Second World War. Martinu Lidice
Penderecki Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima
(Both derived from actual war-time incidents) lippett A Child of our time Messiaen Quartet for the end of time
Britten The Ballad of little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
(Both written for performance in prisoner-of-war camps)
Walton Prelude and Spitfire Fugue: Record requests from the under-20s. Introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD