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liner notes on the music. Other information: Recorded live in
Berlin in 1986 and 1988. Nazwa - Brilliant Opera
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Opis - Hans Pfitzner"s musical legend Palestrina was
first performed during the height of the First World War, a period
when sensitive minds such as Pfitzner"s felt uneasy about the
cultural scene of bourgeois society. Even then, when the headlong
descent into Nazi tyranny was still a long way off, the composer
saw himself as an artist representing an era that was rapidly
drawing to its close. He therefore projected his own situation onto
the historical personality of the 16th-century composer Giovanni
Pierluigi da Palestrina, who was credited with saving the art of
contrapuntal church music during the Council of Trent.Like all
artists, the composer treated the facts rather freely to suit his
own artistic intentions. He recycles thematic material from
Palestrina"s Missa Papae Marcelli, the work that allegedly settled
the argument back in the uncertain days of the 16th century, after
the upset of Martin Luther. As the librettist as well as composer,
Pfitzner certainly moulds the truth to suit his own situation, and
he backs up his artistic licence with some solemn, powerful and
audaciously pastiche music, imbued with archaisms borrowed from
Palestrina and his contemporaries. He adds to these Wagnerian
motifs, such as the bells that symbolise the Catholic Church.
Pfitzner portrays a composer who refuses to allow his music to be
abused for bolstering the power of the Church. Palestrina"s crisis,
brought on by the loss of his office, his faith and his wife, as
well as by the new style emanating from Florence, reflects the
crisis of Pfitzner"s own world in which art is needed only to
preserve the existing order, not to seek out new horizons.This
dramatic opera was recorded live in the Schauspielhaus, Berlin,
giving it a powerful sense of space and atmosphere. Otmar Suitner
is a conductor of great experience and sympathy with the work, and
the title role is played by Peter Schreier who "sings with great
intelligence, deep expression and care for words, and with the
slightly piercing, fundamentally German tenor sound for which the
role was surely conceived" (Gramophone).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 flavour, 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.Other information:Recorded live in Berlin in
1986 and 1988.
Nazwa - Brilliant Opera Collections: Pfitzner:
Palestrina
Autor - Staatskapelle Berlin, Chor der Deutschen
Staatsoper Berlin, Otmar Suitner
Wydawca - Brilliant Classics
Kod EAN - 5028421951133
Rok wydania - 2016
Nośnik - Płyta CD
Podatek VAT - 23%
