Palestrina’s epoch-defining Mass has been the stuff of legends over the past five centuries. Fabrice Fitch assesses a range of approaches to its recorded performance How fitting that work on this ...

Specially recorded by the BBC Singers (the BBC's own full-time professional choir, and one of the world's great vocal ensembles) conducted by their Conductor Laureate Stephen Cleobury, the timeline ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After all the early music scholarship in recent decades, it must seem that the music by a composer as prominent ...

Choirs from the U.S. and abroad joined series presenting sacred masterworks by Palestrina in their intended setting — the Holy Mass. The series commemorates the 500th anniversary of the birth of ...

The consummate vocal ensemble beautifully highlighted symbolic connections between the 16th-century Italian composer and soon-to-be 90 Arvo Pärt This year marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of ...

Palestrina, Pfitzner's "musical legend", polarises opinion more sharply than almost any other opera. Its admirers claim it as a masterpiece: a profound exploration of the nature of creativity and the ...

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 ...