CD 1
DIARY OF A MADMAN, mono-opera for baritone and orchestra in two acts with a prologue and epilogue (1964)
Libretto by Juri Butsko based on the Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol
Total time: 67.49
Sergei Yakovenko, baritone
Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor - Arnold Kats
Recorded in 1976
Sound engineer - G. Tses

CD 2
LACRIMOSA for string orchestra (1982)
THE CANON TO THE MENACING ANGEL, THE COMMANDER AND GUARDIAN. A Creation of Parthenius, the Fool for Christ's Sake
on text by Ivan IV the Terrible, the Despot of Russia for choir, soloists, two pianos, celesta, pipe organ and percussion (2009)
Total time: 61.43
Sergei Spiridonov, tenor
Anton Zarayev, bass
Marianna Vysotskaya, piano
Alexander Kulikov, piano
Yulia Tikhonova, celesta
Margarita Koroleva, pipe organ
Alexey Orlov, percussion
Nikolai Andriychuk, percussion
Kirill Yakovenko, percussion
The Moscow Conservatory Choir
Conductor - Stanislav Kalinin
Chamber Orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory
Conductor - Gennady Cherkasov

Recorded live at the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on November 21,1988 and at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on October 29, 2011.
Label manager - Karina Abramyan
Editor - Tatiana Kazarnovskaya
Project manager - Maria Lygina
Remastering - Nadezhda Radugina
Design - Ildar Kryukov
Translators: Nikolai Kuznetsov (English), Anastasia Butsko (German)

On the cover is an artwork "Portrait of the composer Juri Butsko," 2003 by Victor Kalinin.