"Although no one is likely to trump Kondrashin's intensity, Karabits reaffirms the viability of a more mobile view of the score. 'A Career', the final setting, proceeds with complete naturalness, its flow dictated by the twists and turns of Yevtushenko's ironic text ... Here a quintessentially Russian band, two Moscow-based choirs, a Ukrainian conductor and a Moldovian baritone offer authenticity of the best post-Soviet kind. A Thirteenth to live with".