You can listen to the music here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKfWmrSK5-gThe present edition of Russia Cast Adrift for baritone attempts to reflect our experience of studying the work with G. V. Sviridov himself, as well as our practical experience acquired during the last two years' concert tours throughout Russia, Europe, and America. As perfomers, we have been interested especially in presenting the work just as a Poem, i. e. as a development of meaning moved by an integrative emotional force. Correspondingly, we have elaborated the following vision of the work's overall form....The poignant, tragically powerful and delicate, impeccably constructed vocal lyric of Georgy Sviridov is open urbi et orbi. It will be accepted by the world culture with joy and thankfulness — as an unfailing reality', a unique experience of purity and flame, of the secret of death and that of immortality.