Norma Procter
Norma Procter was an English contralto, admired in oratorio, opera and concert repertory. She became especially associated with British and sacred music performance.
In the Pristine catalogue she appears in Horenstein’s Beethoven Missa solemnis and Krips’s Mendelssohn Elijah.
Procter’s singing brought depth, steadiness and textual seriousness to choral-symphonic music, where the lower female voice must carry gr...
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
Live broadcast concert recording, 1958
Total duration: 77:00
Teresa Stich-Randall, soprano
Norma Procter, alto
Peter Pears, tenor
Kim Borg, bass
Leeds Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
conducted by Jascha Horenstein
Recorded 1954
Duration: 2hr 9:04
Conducted by Josef Krips