Patron: The Former HRH The Prince of Wales
Chorus Master: Gavin Carr
Accompanist: Timothy End
Arts Council England

Concert Diary 2014 - 2015

Fri 25 Nov 1960

Bach - St Matthew Passion

Kingsway Hall, London

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – baritone
Otakar Kraus – baritone
Sir Geraint Evans – baritone
Helen Watts – alto
Wilfred Brown – tenor
John Carol Case – baritone
Walter Berry – bass
Nicolai Gedda – tenor
Christa Ludwig – alto
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf – soprano
Peter Pears – tenor

Hampstead Parish Church Boys’ Choir

Philharmonia Chorus
Chorus Master – Wilhelm Pitz

Philharmonia Orchestra
conducted by Otto Klemperer

Further recording sessions held on 26 November 1960, and 3-4 January, 14-15 April, 4 May, 10-12 May and 28 November 1961

Recording Producer – Walter Legge

Recording Engineers – Neville Boyling and Douglas Larter

Recorded by Columbia

1963 Grammy Award