Alan Moss ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>"The New Grove" has it thus: "Philharmonia Chorus - an amateur choir
>founded in 1957 by Walter Legge ...
Apparently out of frustration caused by the lack of a choir in London
good enough to record (in Legge's opinion). This is why the
Karajan/Philharmonia Beethoven 9 was recorded in Vienna.
The first choirmaster, Wilhelm Pitz, was headhunted by Legge.
Deryk Barker
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