Julian Allen asks for opinions on Pftizner's Palestrina and Schmidt's Buch mit sieben Siegeln: >If people are familiar with Palestrina - what do they think of it? I found >it quite hard going and perhaps a little montonous even thought the cast on >my Kubelik recording is very starry. Did anyone see it at the ROH Covent >Garden some time back. I missed it. Perhaps it is better live. I'm not wild about it, but then I have problems with late 19th-century post-Wagnerian music. It seems like just so much noodling around at the keyboard. Never seen the opera live. >I think the Franz Schmidt is altogether superior with overwhelming >choruses. It is a setting of the Revelation of St John the Divine. I've reviewed the Schmidt at the following URL: http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/e/emi56660a.html Steve Schwartz