Emotional struggle with surrender and hope. Soprano with full orchestra. Live archival recording; approx. 65 bpm (Gbmaj)
Orchestrated and produced by Alexander Rodin. Recorded at Kyiv House Record & Recording Studio "ARCADIA", Kiev, Ukraine. Sound engineers: Dmitry Ilchenko, Anrii Mokrytskyi & Arkady Vichorev.
1: Orchestra of The Municipal Opera of Kiev conducted by Sergii Golubnychyi.
2, 3, 19, 29, 34, 41, 42: String Quartet POST SCRIPTUM & Alexander Rodin (piano).
4: National Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine conducted by Natalia Ponomarchuk.
5, 11, 18, 23, 24, 26: Piano performed by Alexander Rodin.
6, 30: Eugene Taruntsov (clarinet) & Anna Pyrozhkova (violoncello).
7, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 21, 27, 28, 31, 32, 43, 44: The Pop Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine conducted by Mykola Lysenko.
8, 13, 25: Chamber Choir CREDO conducted by Bogdan Plish.
9, 15, 22, 33, 35, 38-40, 46: Alla Rodina (soprano) and The Pop Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine conducted by Mykola Lysenko.
20: Alexander Rodin (piano) & Anna Pyrozhkova (violoncello).
36, 37: Orchestra of The Municipal Opera of Kiev conducted by Sergii Golubnychyi.
45: Alla Rodina (soprano) & Anna Pyrozhkova (violoncello).
Mastered by Wolfgang Meyscheider at digital music & media, Traunwalchen, Germany.
Cover art: Sahar Aharoni
We'll lay down in the deep sofas, like in the coffins,
We'll arrange tropical flowers around,
For us it was woven by skies,
And the mortal bed will be covered with a spicy air.
And in the depths of two souls, like in the depths of two deep mirrors,
Two glints of responsive fire will glance off.