"The creative output of that composer (Stetsenko) – I love immensely. His most important work is, in my opinion, his Requiem (Memorial Service), which I heard conducted by the author himself in Kyiv. It is full of the poetry of our memorial services for the dead, suggesting bowed wooden crosses and tender cherry trees, which surround graves, as children would the casket of a deceased sadly and quietly holding simple field flowers, looking with naive little eyes on the mysterious and unnecessary sadness of the gathered people... That Requiem one would like to sing like a song, so much does it contain of native humanity..." O. Koshyts'
(information from the CD polygraphy)
The edition contains a 16-page booklet with a detailed article by L. Parhomenko and information about the choir. The texts are in Ukrainian, English.