Zastupnitse Userdnaya

From Chesnokov's cycle of Marian hymns, To the Most Holy Sovereign Lady, Opus 43, this Troparion to the Kazan Icon of the Virgin Mary embodies the spirit of Russian piety and veneration of the Most Holy Mother of God. Intensely supplicatory and evocative chant-like recitatives alternate with full choral sonorities characteristic of Chesnokov, making this work a potential crown jewel of a choral program.