Aleksandr Kastalsky News
Russian composer and folklorist (1856-1926)
- church music
- Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- composer, musicologist, ethnomusicologist
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Alexander Kastalsky’s Requiem for Fallen Brothers was written between 1914 and 1917, during World War I, a conflict that killed more than 20 million people and injured even more. Kastalsky achieved poignancy in his memorial by using melodies and texts from many of the countries involved in the war — Russia, Serbia, Italy, England, Japan,
2018-12-01 06:25:00
Classical Music News of the Week, December 1, 2018
Princeton University Glee Club Presents: "Out of the Deep""Out of the Deep: Russian Choral Music and the Basso Profundo." Sunday, December 9 at 3PM in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. The Princeton University Glee Club has invited leading oktavists Vladimir Miller (Russia), Adrian Peacock (United Kingdom) and Glenn Miller (United States), to come together in an unprecedented gathering--the first time that three such legends of the basso profundo voice from the western and eastern traditions have combined in concert, in the United States. The student singers of the Princeton University Glee Club have spent the current semester learning about the Moscow Synodal tradition, mastering the challenges of the 'church slavonic' language, and preparing repertoire by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Kastalsky, Chesnokov, Gretchaninoff, and Golovanov. In the first week of December, the three guest vocalists will arrive in Princeton for a week of intensive work with Princeton University students, in which […]
Anne Midgette - The classical beat
2018-10-22 18:43:42
Russian composer Kastalsky sought to memorialize the fallen Allies in World War I.
2016-07-14 16:45:07
Moscow Patriarch Choir/Tolkachev (Christophorus) Sacred Chants after the Revolution 1917 is the subtitle of this sumptuous collection, and the notes describe the “acts of heroism” that the five composers went through to keep Russia’s mighty choral tradition alive in Soviet times while churches were being razed and clergymen murdered. Just how “hidden” these composers were is intriguing: Alexander Nikolsky was made responsible for “proletarian culture” after the revolution and Alexander Alexandrov was such a personal favourite of Stalin that the dictator would call up in the middle of the night requesting choirs to sing his favourite tunes. Also featured on the disc are hymns by Golovanov, Chesnokov and Kastalsky, all of whose music is miles off anything challenging enough to be denounced by the regime as “muddle instead of music” (as Shostakovich’s was). Instead, the harmonic language is rousing, fragrant pre-revolution romanticism, and the Moscow choir under Ivan Tokachev sings […]
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