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Otto Klemperer Conducts JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion
Performed by Peter Pears, the Boys of Hampstead Parish Choir and the Philharmonia Orchestra.
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JS Bach
St Matthew Passion
Peter Pears; Boys of Hampstead Parish Choir; Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer
Warner Classics 2435675382 (1962)
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Peter Pears’s inimitable Evangelist, the finest obbligato wind, large intense choir, create a deeply moving, nostalgic account with weighty meditative tempos.
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