Jim Saunders wrote:

>Doesn't anyone have anything to say about the Klemperer? It's at least as
>controversial in tempi (slow) as the HIP versions (fast) are.

The Klemperer is like a *cathedral* (hm....odd analogy for a Lutheran
work...).  It's monumental, subtle, the *grand manner*.  In the second
Herreweghe Jacobs (always a better conductor than singer IMO) is replaced
by the incredible Andreas Scholl.

Philip