Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Pfitzner found the perfect vehicle for this theme in an episode in the life of the Renaissance composer Pierluigi ...
The esoteric pick of the week is Palestrina. Not the composer, Palestrina, himself, but the opera based on events late in his life by German anti-modernist Hans Pfitzner. Hans Pfitzner was born in ...
In recent years, Marek Janowski’s guest appearances with the San Francisco Symphony have followed a strikingly consistent playbook. The Polish-born conductor, who leads the Berlin Radio Symphony, ...
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