Pfitzner / Schreier / Chor Der Deutsche Staatsoper: Palestrina

Title: Palestrina
Artist: Pfitzner / Schreier / Chor Der Deutsche Staatsoper
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5028421951133
Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta

First performed in 1917 in Munich (conducted by Bruno Walter), Pfitzner's opera on the great 16th-century composer Palestrina became popular with those in German musical society who had become hostile to the direction which Schoenberg and Busoni had taken. Composed in "traditional" late romantic style it has a particularly Wagnerian flavor, a kind of catholic "Meistersinger" with hints of Palestrinian counterpoint and plainchant. A superb cast in this exciting live recording from Berlin: Peter Schreier, Siegfried Lorenz, Rosemarie Lang and the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by the great Otmar Suitner, a specialist in late romantic repertoire. The libretto is available online at www. Brilliantclassics. com, the booklet contains liner notes on the music.

Tracks:
1.1 Prelude
1.2 Schönste, Ungnäd'ge Dame
1.3 Ighino! Gut, Daß Ich Dich Seh'!
1.4 Schönste, Undnäd'ge Dame
1.5 Der Letzte Freund
1.6 FÜR Ihn! Sein Wesen Will's
2.1 Nicht Ich - Schwach Bin Ich
2.2 Allein in Dunkler Tiefe
2.3 Ighino, Sieh Doch, Komm Herein!
2.4 Prelude
2.5 Noch Eine Bank! Und Schnell!
2.6 Morone Ist Von Innsbruck Schon Herein?
2.7 Ein Liebreich Würd'ger Herr
2.8 Zahlreich Wird Heut' Die Heilige Versammlung
3.1 Den Heil'gen Geist
3.2 Was Nun! Was Nun!
3.3 Habt Ihr's Gesehn?
3.4 Prelude
3.5 Wie Lange Sie Bleiben
3.6 Ist Palestrina, Der Meister, Hier?
3.7 Nun Schmiede Mich

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