Arnold Bax feared growing old and in his autobiography written in his thirties, entitled Farewell My Youth, he quoted his beloved WB Yeats on old age: "What shall I do with this absurdity - 0 heart, 0 troubled heart - this caricature decrepit age has tied to me as to a dog's tail?" In the last of this week's programmes Donald Macleod looks at music written towards the end of Bax's life.
London Pageant
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex) Stephen Coombs (piano), Ulster Orchestra, conductor TakuoYuasa
Concertante
Gillian Callow (cor anglais), John Bradbury (clarinet), Jonathan Goodall (horn), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Martyn Brabbins