The composer weaves the polyphony of the poets' voices (Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Baratynsky, Yesenin, Mandelstam, Keats, Shelley, and others) into an integral whole, into a mysterious harmony. The hero of the cycle is poetry itself. 'I felt the need to bow to poetry, to wait for the poem to sing itself.' (Valentin Silvestrov)

• I Five Songs on verses by Baratynsky, Keats, Pushkin and Shchevchenko: Song can tend the ailing spirit (Y. Baratynsky)
• There were storms and blizzards ( Y. Baratynsky)
• La Belle Dame sans merci (J. Keats)
• O melancholy time! (from “Autumn” by A. Pushkin)
• Farewell, O world, O earth (from “A Dream” by T. Shevchenko)
• II Eleven Songs on verses by Pushkin, Mandelstam, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Shelley and Essenin: What is my name to you? (A. Pushkin)
• I will tell you with complete directn...