He is the "Father of the Russian music," the Russian history books say. But what do we know of Mikhaïl Glinka, except the echoes of Ruslan & Ludmilla, or from A Life for the Tsar (which includes the extraordinary danced interludes brought together by Peter Klimov)? This new album offers a perfect tool for discovery. With the exception of well-known works like Kamarinskaia or Nocnhoj smotr, all of the works here are unpublished.