4/5. By the 1930's, Bartok's international reputation as both composer and pianist was at its peak. But at home in Hungary he was still struggling to gain the recognition he deserved. Donald Macleod explores the years leading up to the Second World War, when Bartok began to realise his future could lie outside his beloved Hungary.

Cantata Profana Tamas Daroczy (tenor), Alexandru Agache (baritone), Hungarian Radio and Television Choir, Budapest
Festival Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti
Wandering; Loafer's Song (Two- and Three-Part Choruses)
Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Chamber Chorus, conductor Antal Dorati
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa

(Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight)