Four Bible Songs
A song of hope (Psalm 130)
A song of wisdom (Ecclesiasticus 24) A song of battle (Psalm 124) A song of peace (Isaiah 11) sung by Gordon Clinton (baritone) with Margaret Cobb (organ)
First of three lectures by Humphry House
Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford
In this lecture Mr. House discusses some problems in the approach to Coleridge and in the appraisal of his prose.
Next lecture: Saturday at 8.0
Antonio Janigro (cello)
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader. Reginald Stead)
Conductor, John Hopkins
Can a Scientist be a Christian?
A discussion
A number of philosophers and scientists of the University of Cambridge who arc members of the Church of England have appointed four of their group to discuss this question.
Festino nella sera del
Giovedi grasso avanti cena sung by the London Chamber Singers
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
The madrigal-comedies of Banchieri (1567-1634) follow closely the type of entertainment created by Orazio Vccchi. The Festino, written for the end of the pre-lenten festivities, provided spiced variety and plenty of buffoonery to amuse a carnival audience. It includes the well-known ' capriccio ' in which cuckoo, owl, cat, and dog noises form a ' contraponto bestiale' over a dog-latin chant. A rhymed couplet announces each of the twenty little ' scenes.' We are warned that the singers will imitate the braying of donkeys and the squealing of pigs; we join in a tongue-twisting game, encounter some noisy match-setters, and take part in a drinking bout. Banchieri's inspiration does not go very deep, but his able handling of his material gives us some sparkling pages and many amusing character sketches. Anthony Bernard Another performance: tomorrow at 6.35
by Henry Reed
Richard Adeney (flute)
Clifton Helliwell (harpsichord)
Sonata in C, for flute and continuo Harpsichord:
Prelude and Fughetta in D minor Prelude and Fughetta in E minor Prelude and Fugue in A minor
Sonata in E flat, for flute and harpsichord
Another programme of Bach's music for flute and harpsichord: March 25
Talk by Rudolf Kolisch
The speaker (Schoenberg's brother-in-law) is leader of the Kolisch String Quartet, which he founded in Vienna in 1928. (The recorded broadcast of March 14)
See also tomorrow at 9.25
Sonata in C, Op. posth. (Unfinished)
(completed by Ernst Krenek) played by Ray Lev (piano) on gramophone records
