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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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3

Published: November 13, 2015 at 2:33 pm

JS Bach St Matthew Passion Peter Pears; Boys of Hampstead Parish Choir; Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer Warner Classics 2435675382 (1962)

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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