Sonata No. 1, in E minor Rondo in D minor Sonata No. 4, in A played by Celia Ariel ! (piano)
Talk by N. R. Hanson
Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science in the University of Cambridge
There was a time when physicists could think about atoms only by visualising them. This implied a concept of atomic structure which scientific explanation has transcended. ' Only when the quest for picturability ended,' says Mr. Hanson, ' was the real nature of explanation within all Natural Philosophy made clear to us.'
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard )
Conducted by Alfred Wallenstein
Part 1
Talk by Philip E. Hughes
The reputation which Johann Reuchlin built up in the Germany of the Reformation was based mainly on his achievements in the field of Hebrew learning. His Rudiments of Hebrew was published before the Reformation. In this talk Mr. Hughes explains Reuchlin's interpretation of the Jewish Cabala with special reference to the secret names of God as disclosed in his book The Cabalistic Art, which appeared in the same year as Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door.
Part 2
by George Moore from 'A Story-Teller's Holiday'
Script and production by E. J. King Bull
During the interval (9.30-9.40 app.): Gramophone records of Jacques Ibcrt's Three Short Pieces for wind quintet, played by the Copenhagen Wind Quintet
Sonnets by Edmund Spenser
Music by Maurice Greene
April Cantelo (soprano)
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Marke when she smiles; The love which me so cruelly tormenteth; Fayre cruell; After long stormes; Fresh spring; Lacking my love, I goe; Since I did leave the presence; Like as the culver
Second of two programmes