Sensational "Palestrina" recording under Simone Young
- With 38 soloists, chorus and large orchestra, Hans Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina is an opera that places high Demands on the performance. In Munich, the City where it celebrated its world premiere in 1917, director Christian Stückl and the Bavarian State Opera Bavarian State Opera mastered these challenges with with bravura
- Stückl's production gives this morally and and philosophically serious work such a color and Vitality that even the Abendzeitung raved: "Who would have thought that Pfitzner could be fun? could be?"
- The opera, written in a lush late Romantic Style, tells how Palestrina, in the face of the decrees the Church's decrees against music, he wrote his great his great Missa Papae Marcelli and becomes the "savior of contrapuntal music of contrapuntal music."
- The impressive Christopher Ventris in the role of of Palestrina leads the outstanding cast
- Bonus: Documentary Making of "Palestrina"

