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Palestrina

Hans Pfitzner

Reviews (4)

Classical CD review

2012 March

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Gavin Dixon

2012 March

"There are many insights here that will come as a surprise, not least the crucial importance of the bass end of the orchestra to the unfolding of the drama. A useful complement then to the Kubelik version, but one which only goes to accentuate just how good that earlier recording is".

BBC music magazine

2012 July

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Mark Pappenheim

2012 July

"I would like to be able to welcome this new live recording of Pfitzner's masterpiece from Frankfurt ... Sadly, though, this is a disappointing prosaic reading ... The cast is undistinguished ... Above all, Peter Bronder is overstretched in the title role".

Fono Forum

2012 Mai

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Werner Pfister

2012 Mai

"Der eigentliche Star der Aufführung aber heisst Kirill Petrenko. Wie er die ganz spezifischen Klangfarben dieser Partitur ausleuchtet, wie er speziell den Holzbläsern immer wieder eine Art von altertümlicher, warmer Patina verleiht und wie er bei der grossen Engelszene das Orchester souverän zu ungemein starker, fast gläubiger intensität auffahren lässt, das alles is einsame Klasse und lässt wohl keinen unberührt".

The gramophone

2012 September

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Mike Ashman

2012 September

"It's a well played-in ensemble performance under a wise old stage director (Harry Kupfer). Conductor Kirill Petrenko ... matches Rudolf Kempe's recently rediscovered 1955 Salzburg performance: they're both compelling story-tellers of large-scale operatic narrative ... Frankfurt's cast has planty of gutsy ecclesiastical characters ... and the wholeis a triumph for British tenor Peter Bronder in the title-role".