Kastalsky Requiem

Update: We are excited to announce that this recording has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance! **NoteWe regret that our shipment of CD's received slight damage in transit. Jewel cases may contain small cracks. The Saint Tikhon Choir joined forces with the world-renowned forces with the Grammy-award winning Kansas City Chorale, The Clarion Choir, the Orchestra of St. Luke, and the Cathedral Choir, all under the baton of Leonard Slatkin and recorded live at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. by multi Grammy-award winning producer Blanton Alspaugh of SoundMirror. This was truly a monumental event!  Composer Alexander Kastalsky, although he was Rachmaninov's teacher, is not well known outside Russia. He wrote mostly church music, and it influenced his famous student and other Russian church composers of the era. This Requiem of 1917 is unique, even within his oeuvre. It's a grand attempt to write a requiem mass for soldiers of the allied nations of World W