(Vocal Collection). (Rus/Eng) Elena Firosva's music of the utmost spareness provides the ideal setting for these introspective texts, with the pianist supporting the voice so delicately as to vanish at times. Firsova was born in Leningrad in 1950 to a family of physicists. After studies at the Moscow Conservatory she worked with Edison Denisov, the well-known Soviet composer also trained as a mathematician.