by BACH
Heather Harper (soprano) Helen Watts (contralto) Grayston Burgess (counter-tenor)
Gerald English (tenor) John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone)
The Ambrosian Singers
English Chamber Orchestra Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz Obbligato parts played by: Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Richard Adeney (flute)
Peter Graeme (oboe d'amore)
Edward Selwyn (oboe d'amore) Alan Civil (horn)
Continuo:
Charles Spinks (organ) Terence Weil (cello)
Stuart Knussen (double-bass) Joseph Castaldini (bassoon)
Conducted by Arnold Goldsbrough
From St. Vedast's Church. Foster Lane, London
Part 1
Kyrie: Gloria

by David Pole
Lecturer in Philosophy in King's College, London
Can we know anything of the world except on the basis of experience? An empiricism which has become less a creed than a habit underlies half the problems and paradoxes of recent philosophy. David Pole , re-opening the issue, seeks the origins of the dogma and offers a simpler alternative.

by BACH Part 2
Credo: Sanctus; Agnus Del

by Donald Davie
Fellow of Caius College Cambridge
Dr. Davie considers analogies of poetry with music and sculpture and the different metaphysical implications of these two analogies.