Kastalsky: Memory Eternal The Clarion Choir & Steven Fox

• Alexander Kastalsky (1856-1926):
• 1 Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes: I. Great Litany 08:19
• 2 Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes: II. Alleluia and with Profound Wisdom 02:42
• 3 Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes: III. Give Rest, O Our Saviour 03:29
• 4 Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes: IV. Give Rest, O Lord, to the Souls of Thy Servants, Who Have Fallen Asleep 01:07
• 5 Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes: V. I Will Pour Out My Prayer 01:44
• 6 Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes: VI. With the Saints Give Rest 02:03
• 7 Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes: VII. Thou Alone Art Immortal 04:03
• 8 Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes: VIII. Thou Art God, Who Descended into Hades 02:11
• 9 Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes: IX. Give Rest, O Lord 02:44
• 10 Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes: X. Triple Litany 07:36
• 11 Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes: XI. Memory Eternal 02:13
• 12 Doors of Thy Mercy 04:38
• 13 From My Youth 04:48
• 14 Blessed Are They 05:48
• Total Runtime 53:25

Info for Kastalsky: Memory Eternal

In the face of the devastation wrought by the First World War, Alexander Kastalsky conceived a musical service of remembrance for the fallen. A pivotal figure in Russian musical life—he was a student of Tchaikovsky and acclaimed as the founder of a new, national church music—Kastalsky composed a choral-orchestral Requiem, for the concert stage. Simultaneously, he worked on the a cappella version heard on this recording to be sung in Russian Orthodox churches. Following the basic structure of the Orthodox Panihida, or memorial service, Memory Eternal, and the short sacred pieces that end the programme, reveal Kastalsky’s masterful use of choral sonority and colour, his weaving of complex polyphonic textures, and his graceful use of ancient chant melodies.

Clarion Choir
Steven Fox, conductor

Steven Fox
is Artistic Director of The Clarion Orchestra and The Clarion Choir and Founder of Musica Antiqua St Petersburg, which he established as Russia’s first period-instrument orchestra at the age of 21. Recognised as a leading conductor of his generation, he has recently appeared as a guest conductor with San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, Juilliard415 at Lincoln Center, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, L’Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, L’Opéra de Québec and Chicago’s Music of the Baroque. From 2008 to 2013 he was an Associate Conductor at New York City Opera, and he has served as an Assistant Conductor for the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Program and Juilliard Opera. Steven Fox is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he was named an Associate in 2010. He has led master- classes and clinics at Dartmouth, Juilliard and Yale, where he served as preparatory conductor of the Yale Schola Cantorum.

Clarion Choir
Established in 2006 to complement The Clarion Orchestra, The Clarion Choir has become one of the leading professional vocal ensembles in the United States. With members equally at home on the solo stage and in ensemble singing, The Clarion Choir has performed in many of the great halls and festivals of North America, including the Lincoln Center White Light Festival, The Tully Scope Festival, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frick Collection, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, the Quebec International Festival of Sacred Music, The Twelfth Night Festival, and Bargemusic with The Knights chamber orchestra. The Clarion Choir premièred Passion Week in a critically- acclaimed performance in October 2014, shortly before this recording was made.

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