To open the European
Broadcasting Union's new season, a concert live from St James ' Church. Liege. Patrizia Kwella and Delphine Collot (sopranos) Gilles Ragon
(counter-tenor)
Simon Davies (tenor) Peter Kooy (bass)
Choir and Orchestra of the Ghent Collegium Vocale director Phillipe Herreweghe
Henri du Mont
Quemadmodum desiderat cervus; Memorare; Super flumina Babylonis
8.10
The Divine Light of Reason
Rene Descartes is deeply unfashionable; but is he destined to become just a silhouette on an ECU coin?
Professor John Cottingham reassesses Descartes who. by capturing the tension between the human aspiration for truth and our limitations, can claim to be the father of science as well as philosophy. With Charles Simon as Descartes.
8.30 Lully Dies Irae
Miserere