The all-too-brief notes by Magdalena Lupi claim that "there is nothing else like it anywhere", but in fact anyone who has heard it will be reminded of the popular religious music from Corsica, and also of some of the early Russian repertoires that Anatoly Grindenko has been engaged in bringing to light with the Moscow Patriarchate Choir during recent years. By these comparisons I do not wish to diminish the music's unique characteristics, however: it has a melodic style and a harmonic pace of its own, and the intonation formulae of the readings are quite lovely and unusual. In Gospodin plac, a lament placed in the mouth of the Virgin, a spiritual and dramatic high point is reached, and the music is reduced to a single, attenuated line quite unlike anything else on the disc (this is also the longest piece, at over 7 minutes).