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4.0 out of 5 stars
Transcends mere opera,
By KB (Rome, Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pfitzner: Palestrina (Audio CD)
Palestrina is not just an opera, it is a meta-opera. Most operas use all the arts to portray the struggles of human life, but Palestrina is about the struggle of art itself. After the Protestant upheaval, puritans in the Roman Catholic Church almost succeeded in turning the Catholic Church against art in imitation of the Protestants. According to tradition, St. Charles Borromeo turned the tide at the Council of Trent. He used the music of the genius Palestrina to show that high art can carry the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ lucidly and accurately. The greater than life characters in this opera, including Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, fight the eternal war to save beauty and art from the forces of destruction and evil and small mindedness and stupidity. Robert Schumann called Palestrina "the greatest musical genius ever produced by Italy". Hans Pfitzner pulls out all the stops in his paean, using every compositional device in this post Strauss masterpiece. Regarded as a masterpiece in Germany, it is little known elsewhere.
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Palestrina by Hans Pfitzner
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