Lark Singers/Stulberg - Ian Krouse: Armenian Requiem

Composed to mark the centenary of the genocide of 1915, the Armenian Requiem is a large-scale sacred work structured around the liturgical chants encountered in requiem services appended to the traditional Armenian Mass. It is written in a form that, uniquely for the music of the country, is not based wholly on the model of the Latin Mass. Instead, taking the precedent of Britten�s War Requiem, Ian Krouse embeds poems as interludes, and his work � a poignant meditation on loss couched in a marriage of Western and Armenian forms � offers both conciliation and hope.