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Cantus Chamber Choir The Cantus Chamber Choir was established Alexander in the Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod in 1986. It has toured in Austria, Estonia, France, , Great Britain, Italy, Hungary, SHCHETYNSKY Latvia, , , Switzerland, and the

Photo: Oleksiy Popov Oleksiy Photo: United States. The choir is a laureate of international choral competitions in Debrecen, Sacred Music from Hungary. The choir’s most important collabo- rations include performances of Ligeti’s Cantus Chamber Choir • Gloria Chamber Choir Requiem conducted by Jonathan Nott in Austria and Germany in 2004. In 2007 Cantus Leopolis Chamber Orchestra performed the cantata Visions by Constantin Regamey in several Ukrainian cities. The choir Emil Sokach • Roman Rewakowicz works with with internationally acclaimed Gloria Chamber Choir artists, including the conductors Hans- The Gloria Chamber Choir was founded in the city of , Ukraine in the early 1990s. Since 1999 the artistic director Michael Bouerle, Kent Nagano, David and conductor of the choir is Volodymyr Syvokhip. The choir was among the first to revive Ukrainian religious music Willcocks, and Norway-based cellist Petro Sokach. Several CD releases of Cantus include of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that had been almost totally forbidden in Ukraine by the Soviet authorities programmes of Ukrainian sacred music (1994), Ukrainian classical and contemporary a from the 1920s to the 1980s. Western church music and works that have never or rarely been performed in Ukraine became cappella choral music (1996), Ukrainian Christmas carols Kolyadki (1998), and a large scale a distinguished component of its repertoire: Kanon Pokajanen by Pärt, Mass by Stravinsky, and choral works by Bach a cappella work The Sealed Angel by R. Shchedrin (2007). and Haydn. The first recording of the unpublished opera Alcide by the eighteenth-century composer Dmytro Bortnyansky that the choir, together with the Leopolis Chamber Orchestra, produced for the National TV and Radio Broadcasting Emil Sokach Company of Ukrainian, as well as several CDs with Ukrainian music, are important achievements for Gloria. The founder, artistic director and conductor of Cantus Emil Sokach was born in 1959 and Photo: Oleksiy Popov Oleksiy Photo: graduated from the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory. His rich repertoire embraces Leopolis Chamber choral music from the Renaissance and Baroque to contemporary composers, folk-songs Orchestra and jazz compositions. He has performed world premières of many Ukrainian works, Founded in 1996, the Leopolis Chamber including the sacred cantata Light to Lighten and the symphony Know Yourself by Alexander Orchestra has performed in Belgium, Shchetynsky. France, the Netherlands, Poland, and Ukraine, and also recorded for the Photo: Olexiy Iutin Roman Rewakowicz Ukrainian and Polish broadcasting The Polish conductor Roman Rewakowicz completed his musical education at the Fryderyk companies. It took part in the world Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw. His conducting activity includes guest appearances with première recording of the oratorio La a number of symphonic orchestras in Poland, Russia and Ukraine, including the Sinfonia terre promise by Jules Massenet released C Varsovia, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Warsaw, the National Symphony Orchestra in 2000 by the French label Erol. The of Ukraine, Kyiv Camerata, the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Rostov Philharmonic artistic director of the orchestra is Orchestra. He is a co-founder and has been co-organizer of the International Contemporary Yaroslav Myhal who also performs with M Music Festival Contrasts in Lviv, Ukraine, where he appeared as a conductor and gave Leopolis as a solo cellist and as

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Alexander Shchetynsky (b. 1960) The Ukrainian composer Alexander Shchetynsky was chamber opera Annunciation was awarded the Russian inexhaustible potential for musical images. The music of symphonic culture and practice. Sacred and secular here New Sacred Music from Ukraine born in 1960. His works include compositions in many National Theatre Prize, Gold Mask, in the category of the Symphony, however, does not contain superficial make a synthesis. In Western music such a synthesis had forms, ranging from solo instrumental and chamber music innovation. decorative elements that might depict this or that a brilliant history, but in countries with a strong Orthodox Know Yourself Light to Lighten (Svit vo Otkroveniye) to orchestral, choral pieces and operas. They have been Being inspired by the Soviet musical avant-garde, philosophical idea. The lofty style is preserved here. At tradition, Ukraine among them, this trend is quite young Symphony for mixed choir a cappella (2003) Sacred cantata for mixed choir a cappella and presented in most European countries and North America, especially Denisov, Schnittke and Pärt, and the Second the same time the music contains many stylistic and genre and is just taking its first steps. Text: Hryhory Skovoroda and other sources two bells (1989) performed by internationally acclaimed artists and Viennese School, as well as music by Messiaen, and elements taken from various cultures that differ The cantata had its première in 2004 in Uzhhorod with (in bookish Old Ukrainian, Old Slavonic, Ancient Text: prayers of the Orthodox Church ensembles, such as the Moscow Helikon-Opera, the BBC Ligeti, he developed his personal post-serial style based on geographically and in time of origin. These are elements of the Cantus choir conducted by Emil Sokach. Greek and Latin) (in Old Slavonic) National Orchestra of Wales, the Warsaw Philharmonic a combination of quasi-serial procedures and special ancient and the new Orthodox Church singing, melodies of 1 Ameristos, adiayretos (Undividedly, without # Otche nash (Our Father) 5:08 Orchestra, the children’s choir Maîtrise de Radio France, attention to attractiveness of sound material and to melody Ukrainian songs, as well as various music techniques. Requiem for mixed choir and string orchestra division) 4:25 $ Pisn’ Presvyatoy Bogoroditse (Song to the Arditti String Quartet, the Moscow Contemporary as a source of expression. Another fundamental feature Diatonic and chromatic, clear and naive tonal fragments Requiem, for choir and strings, is written to the traditional 2 Sut’ zhe try myry (There are three worlds) 5:06 Holy Virgin) 1:00 Music Ensemble, Ensemble Wiener Collage, Ensemble of his music is its rhythmic, structural, and formal and dramatic dissonant episodes are incorporated into a Latin text. As in my other compositions in recent years, I 3 Pastyri myli (Dear Shepherds) 2:03 % Nyni otpushchayeshy (Now Lettest Thou) 3:29 Klangforum, Ensemble Continuum (New York), New flexibility which provokes a feeling of ‘self-development’ new meta-style. The one movement Symphony bears some continue here the development of a new meta-language 4 O nyshcheto. Blazhenna, svyataya (Oh, poverty ^ Viruyu (Credo) 5:59 Juilliard Ensemble, musikFabrik, Stockholm Saxophone of initial micro-thematic patterns. The idea of modern features of sonata form. It lasts about 35 minutes and is a that includes stylistic elements from various periods: is blissful) 2:17 Quartet, pianist Yvar Mikhashoff, soprano Phyllis Bryn- spirituality became an impulse for many of his vocal and demanding piece both for the performers and the listeners, Gregorian Chant and early polyphony, Baroque figures, 5 Blazhen muzh (Blissful is the man) 1:28 Requiem for mixed choir and string orchestra (1991/2004) Julson and cellist Alexander Rudin, among others. Two instrumental compositions and especially his three operas similar to the writings of Skovoroda that require from the operatic melodies of the nineteenth century, modernistic 6 Siyi ottseubiytsy (These father-murderers) 2:01 CDs with his music have been released in the United and choral works. In these newest compositions he moves reader significant intellectual and spiritual efforts. innovations of the twentieth century … In contrast to 7 Vo velykom i v malom myri (In the great and Canonical Latin text & States and France. Alexander Shchetynsky has received towards post-modernistic aesthetics and aims at finding a The Symphony had its première on 5th May 2006 at the collage techniques and poly-stylistics (Berio, Kagel and small worlds) 2:13 Requiem 4:21 * awards at six international composer’s competitions in new meta-style which incorporates stylistic elements of 4th Festival of Contemporary Sacred Music in Uzhhorod, Schnittke), this meta-language smoothes the contrasts 8 Kto dast mni posrebrenny kryla (Who will give Dies irae 7:33 ( Austria, France, Luxembourg, Poland, and Switzerland, various epochs, while staying apart from mere eclecticism. Ukraine, with the Cantus Chamber Choir of Uzhhorod between various styles and incorporates them as much as me silver wings) 1:45 Offertorium 3:07 ) in which the jury members included Dutilleux, Rostro- conducted by Emil Sokach. possible into one discourse, making the transitions from 9 Shto ty, dusha moya (Why do you, my soul) 1:54 Sanctus 1:16 ¡ povich, Penderecki, Palm and Denisov. In 2000 his Virko Baley one style to another imperceptible. 0 Lyudy v zhyzni svoyey (People in their life) 3:15 Benedictus 1:29 ™ Agnus Dei 3:46 Light to Lighten (Svit vo Otkroveniye) I aim at overcoming eclecticism and finding a new ! Gnoti seavton (Know yourself) 4:05 Sacred cantata for mixed choir a cappella and two bells unity in the combination of those musical elements that @ Ameristos, adiayretos (Undividedly, without Know Yourself – the priority of the spirit over material substance, and The first version of Light to Lighten appeared as far back historically never existed next to each other. Placed in an division) 5:04 Symphony for Unaccompanied Mixed Choir the spiritual life of man over rough material elements; as 1983, that is before Gorbachev’s perestroika when unexpected context, these fragments of old styles and Hryhoriy Skovoroda is a Ukrainian poet and Christian – mystical likening the Sun to the eye and the eye to the everything associated with the sacred in art was actually epochs are transformed and affect each other. In the mystical philosopher of the eighteenth century, a person of Sun; forbidden in the . I set to music three foreground, one sees not the neatness of stylization, but the the highest level of European education, who developed his – a dialectical coexistence of weeping and laughter, Orthodox prayers: Our Father, Song to The Holy Virgin adaptation of borrowed idioms, a personal ‘comment’ on own original philosophical system. For this choir hunger and satiety, light and darkness; and Now Lettest Thou (Nunc dimittis). At that time there them. Music that on the surface may remind one of symphony I have chosen the texts from his philosophical – a titanic searching after the sense of human existence, were no chances to perform this choral cycle because of familiar classics – something from Verdi, Brahms or treatises and some fragments from the Bible and ancient in which Skovoroda follows ancient Greek sages with their ideological restriction, so I put the score aside and returned Palestrina – nevertheless reflects the mentality of our own philosophers quoted in Skovoroda’s works. All the texts famous appeal ‘Know yourself’. to it in 1989 when I rewrote almost the whole piece and time, depleted and fussy in some aspects, but at the same are used in their original languages, that is bookish Old Skovoroda’s philosophical writings strike not only with added the final movement Credo. Now the work looked time global and universal, aiming at a dialogue of cultures Ukrainian (the language of Skovoroda’s writings), as well their universality and profundity but also with their like a short choral symphony. I do not think this music and their interaction. Old Slavonic, Ancient Greek and Latin. These texts outline emotional and intellectual tension. In his texts lofty might be used at the Divine Service. It is sacred music The work was first performed in 2004 at the Contrasts the main subjects of Skovoroda’s philosophy, the following philosophical abstraction is intimately related to everyday intended for concert performance. Its character, sound Festival in Lviv, Ukraine, by the Gloria Chamber Choir Alexander among them: life. Out-of-body mysticism is shaded in warm and sincere atmosphere and sometimes the type of music themes are and Leopolis Chamber Orchestra conducted by Volodymyr Know Yourself is published by Acta Scientific Shchetynsky – the division of nature into three worlds: the great world love for the human being. This gave me the chance to inspired by the Orthodox Church tradition, but the ways Syvokhip. Publisher, , Ukraine; Light to Lighten and Photo by Yuri (external), the small world or microcosm revealed in the search for the sound equivalent to the meditations of the of elaboration of the material, the music form and texture, Requiem are unpublished. Podporenko human being, and the symbolic world or the Bible; philosopher. It turned out that his scientific texts proved an and other features are directly linked to chamber and Alexander Shchetynsky 2 8.579005 3 8.579005 4 8.579005 !"#$$!%&'()*)+,-./&-0!!"!12%&'3+4+5+.'676''8892892$''#0$:';<'';=>+'8

Alexander Shchetynsky (b. 1960) The Ukrainian composer Alexander Shchetynsky was chamber opera Annunciation was awarded the Russian inexhaustible potential for musical images. The music of symphonic culture and practice. Sacred and secular here New Sacred Music from Ukraine born in 1960. His works include compositions in many National Theatre Prize, Gold Mask, in the category of the Symphony, however, does not contain superficial make a synthesis. In Western music such a synthesis had forms, ranging from solo instrumental and chamber music innovation. decorative elements that might depict this or that a brilliant history, but in countries with a strong Orthodox Know Yourself Light to Lighten (Svit vo Otkroveniye) to orchestral, choral pieces and operas. They have been Being inspired by the Soviet musical avant-garde, philosophical idea. The lofty style is preserved here. At tradition, Ukraine among them, this trend is quite young Symphony for mixed choir a cappella (2003) Sacred cantata for mixed choir a cappella and presented in most European countries and North America, especially Denisov, Schnittke and Pärt, and the Second the same time the music contains many stylistic and genre and is just taking its first steps. Text: Hryhory Skovoroda and other sources two bells (1989) performed by internationally acclaimed artists and Viennese School, as well as music by Messiaen, and elements taken from various cultures that differ The cantata had its première in 2004 in Uzhhorod with (in bookish Old Ukrainian, Old Slavonic, Ancient Text: prayers of the Orthodox Church ensembles, such as the Moscow Helikon-Opera, the BBC Ligeti, he developed his personal post-serial style based on geographically and in time of origin. These are elements of the Cantus choir conducted by Emil Sokach. Greek and Latin) (in Old Slavonic) National Orchestra of Wales, the Warsaw Philharmonic a combination of quasi-serial procedures and special ancient and the new Orthodox Church singing, melodies of 1 Ameristos, adiayretos (Undividedly, without # Otche nash (Our Father) 5:08 Orchestra, the children’s choir Maîtrise de Radio France, attention to attractiveness of sound material and to melody Ukrainian songs, as well as various music techniques. Requiem for mixed choir and string orchestra division) 4:25 $ Pisn’ Presvyatoy Bogoroditse (Song to the Arditti String Quartet, the Moscow Contemporary as a source of expression. Another fundamental feature Diatonic and chromatic, clear and naive tonal fragments Requiem, for choir and strings, is written to the traditional 2 Sut’ zhe try myry (There are three worlds) 5:06 Holy Virgin) 1:00 Music Ensemble, Ensemble Wiener Collage, Ensemble of his music is its rhythmic, structural, and formal and dramatic dissonant episodes are incorporated into a Latin text. As in my other compositions in recent years, I 3 Pastyri myli (Dear Shepherds) 2:03 % Nyni otpushchayeshy (Now Lettest Thou) 3:29 Klangforum, Ensemble Continuum (New York), New flexibility which provokes a feeling of ‘self-development’ new meta-style. The one movement Symphony bears some continue here the development of a new meta-language 4 O nyshcheto. Blazhenna, svyataya (Oh, poverty ^ Viruyu (Credo) 5:59 Juilliard Ensemble, musikFabrik, Stockholm Saxophone of initial micro-thematic patterns. The idea of modern features of sonata form. It lasts about 35 minutes and is a that includes stylistic elements from various periods: is blissful) 2:17 Quartet, pianist Yvar Mikhashoff, soprano Phyllis Bryn- spirituality became an impulse for many of his vocal and demanding piece both for the performers and the listeners, Gregorian Chant and early polyphony, Baroque figures, 5 Blazhen muzh (Blissful is the man) 1:28 Requiem for mixed choir and string orchestra (1991/2004) Julson and cellist Alexander Rudin, among others. Two instrumental compositions and especially his three operas similar to the writings of Skovoroda that require from the operatic melodies of the nineteenth century, modernistic 6 Siyi ottseubiytsy (These father-murderers) 2:01 CDs with his music have been released in the United and choral works. In these newest compositions he moves reader significant intellectual and spiritual efforts. innovations of the twentieth century … In contrast to 7 Vo velykom i v malom myri (In the great and Canonical Latin text & States and France. Alexander Shchetynsky has received towards post-modernistic aesthetics and aims at finding a The Symphony had its première on 5th May 2006 at the collage techniques and poly-stylistics (Berio, Kagel and small worlds) 2:13 Requiem 4:21 * awards at six international composer’s competitions in new meta-style which incorporates stylistic elements of 4th Festival of Contemporary Sacred Music in Uzhhorod, Schnittke), this meta-language smoothes the contrasts 8 Kto dast mni posrebrenny kryla (Who will give Dies irae 7:33 ( Austria, France, Luxembourg, Poland, and Switzerland, various epochs, while staying apart from mere eclecticism. Ukraine, with the Cantus Chamber Choir of Uzhhorod between various styles and incorporates them as much as me silver wings) 1:45 Offertorium 3:07 ) in which the jury members included Dutilleux, Rostro- conducted by Emil Sokach. possible into one discourse, making the transitions from 9 Shto ty, dusha moya (Why do you, my soul) 1:54 Sanctus 1:16 ¡ povich, Penderecki, Palm and Denisov. In 2000 his Virko Baley one style to another imperceptible. 0 Lyudy v zhyzni svoyey (People in their life) 3:15 Benedictus 1:29 ™ Agnus Dei 3:46 Light to Lighten (Svit vo Otkroveniye) I aim at overcoming eclecticism and finding a new ! Gnoti seavton (Know yourself) 4:05 Sacred cantata for mixed choir a cappella and two bells unity in the combination of those musical elements that @ Ameristos, adiayretos (Undividedly, without Know Yourself – the priority of the spirit over material substance, and The first version of Light to Lighten appeared as far back historically never existed next to each other. Placed in an division) 5:04 Symphony for Unaccompanied Mixed Choir the spiritual life of man over rough material elements; as 1983, that is before Gorbachev’s perestroika when unexpected context, these fragments of old styles and Hryhoriy Skovoroda is a Ukrainian poet and Christian – mystical likening the Sun to the eye and the eye to the everything associated with the sacred in art was actually epochs are transformed and affect each other. In the mystical philosopher of the eighteenth century, a person of Sun; forbidden in the Soviet Union. I set to music three foreground, one sees not the neatness of stylization, but the the highest level of European education, who developed his – a dialectical coexistence of weeping and laughter, Orthodox prayers: Our Father, Song to The Holy Virgin adaptation of borrowed idioms, a personal ‘comment’ on own original philosophical system. For this choir hunger and satiety, light and darkness; and Now Lettest Thou (Nunc dimittis). At that time there them. Music that on the surface may remind one of symphony I have chosen the texts from his philosophical – a titanic searching after the sense of human existence, were no chances to perform this choral cycle because of familiar classics – something from Verdi, Brahms or treatises and some fragments from the Bible and ancient in which Skovoroda follows ancient Greek sages with their ideological restriction, so I put the score aside and returned Palestrina – nevertheless reflects the mentality of our own philosophers quoted in Skovoroda’s works. All the texts famous appeal ‘Know yourself’. to it in 1989 when I rewrote almost the whole piece and time, depleted and fussy in some aspects, but at the same are used in their original languages, that is bookish Old Skovoroda’s philosophical writings strike not only with added the final movement Credo. Now the work looked time global and universal, aiming at a dialogue of cultures Ukrainian (the language of Skovoroda’s writings), as well their universality and profundity but also with their like a short choral symphony. I do not think this music and their interaction. Old Slavonic, Ancient Greek and Latin. These texts outline emotional and intellectual tension. In his texts lofty might be used at the Divine Service. It is sacred music The work was first performed in 2004 at the Contrasts the main subjects of Skovoroda’s philosophy, the following philosophical abstraction is intimately related to everyday intended for concert performance. Its character, sound Festival in Lviv, Ukraine, by the Gloria Chamber Choir Alexander among them: life. Out-of-body mysticism is shaded in warm and sincere atmosphere and sometimes the type of music themes are and Leopolis Chamber Orchestra conducted by Volodymyr Know Yourself is published by Acta Scientific Shchetynsky – the division of nature into three worlds: the great world love for the human being. This gave me the chance to inspired by the Orthodox Church tradition, but the ways Syvokhip. Publisher, Kharkiv, Ukraine; Light to Lighten and Photo by Yuri (external), the small world or microcosm revealed in the search for the sound equivalent to the meditations of the of elaboration of the material, the music form and texture, Requiem are unpublished. Podporenko human being, and the symbolic world or the Bible; philosopher. It turned out that his scientific texts proved an and other features are directly linked to chamber and Alexander Shchetynsky 2 8.579005 3 8.579005 4 8.579005 !"#$$!%&'()*)+,-./&-0!!"!12%&'3+4+5+.'676''8892892$''#0$:';<'';=>+'2

Cantus Chamber Choir The Cantus Chamber Choir was established Alexander in the Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod in 1986. It has toured in Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Hungary, SHCHETYNSKY Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, and the

Photo: Oleksiy Popov Oleksiy Photo: United States. The choir is a laureate of international choral competitions in Debrecen, Sacred Music from Ukraine Hungary. The choir’s most important collabo- rations include performances of Ligeti’s Cantus Chamber Choir • Gloria Chamber Choir Requiem conducted by Jonathan Nott in Austria and Germany in 2004. In 2007 Cantus Leopolis Chamber Orchestra performed the cantata Visions by Constantin Regamey in several Ukrainian cities. The choir Emil Sokach • Roman Rewakowicz works with with internationally acclaimed Gloria Chamber Choir artists, including the conductors Hans- The Gloria Chamber Choir was founded in the city of Lviv, Ukraine in the early 1990s. Since 1999 the artistic director Michael Bouerle, Kent Nagano, David and conductor of the choir is Volodymyr Syvokhip. The choir was among the first to revive Ukrainian religious music Willcocks, and Norway-based cellist Petro Sokach. Several CD releases of Cantus include of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that had been almost totally forbidden in Ukraine by the Soviet authorities programmes of Ukrainian sacred music (1994), Ukrainian classical and contemporary a from the 1920s to the 1980s. Western church music and works that have never or rarely been performed in Ukraine became cappella choral music (1996), Ukrainian Christmas carols Kolyadki (1998), and a large scale a distinguished component of its repertoire: Kanon Pokajanen by Pärt, Mass by Stravinsky, and choral works by Bach a cappella work The Sealed Angel by R. Shchedrin (2007). and Haydn. The first recording of the unpublished opera Alcide by the eighteenth-century composer Dmytro Bortnyansky that the choir, together with the Leopolis Chamber Orchestra, produced for the National TV and Radio Broadcasting Emil Sokach Company of Ukrainian, as well as several CDs with Ukrainian music, are important achievements for Gloria. The founder, artistic director and conductor of Cantus Emil Sokach was born in 1959 and Photo: Oleksiy Popov Oleksiy Photo: graduated from the Tchaikovsky Kyiv State Conservatory. His rich repertoire embraces Leopolis Chamber choral music from the Renaissance and Baroque to contemporary composers, folk-songs Orchestra and jazz compositions. He has performed world premières of many Ukrainian works, Founded in 1996, the Leopolis Chamber including the sacred cantata Light to Lighten and the symphony Know Yourself by Alexander Orchestra has performed in Belgium, Shchetynsky. France, the Netherlands, Poland, and Ukraine, and also recorded for the Photo: Olexiy Iutin Roman Rewakowicz Ukrainian and Polish broadcasting The Polish conductor Roman Rewakowicz completed his musical education at the Fryderyk companies. It took part in the world Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw. His conducting activity includes guest appearances with première recording of the oratorio La a number of symphonic orchestras in Poland, Russia and Ukraine, including the Sinfonia terre promise by Jules Massenet released C Varsovia, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Warsaw, the National Symphony Orchestra in 2000 by the French label Erol. The of Ukraine, Kyiv Camerata, the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Rostov Philharmonic artistic director of the orchestra is Orchestra. He is a co-founder and has been co-organizer of the International Contemporary Yaroslav Myhal who also performs with M Music Festival Contrasts in Lviv, Ukraine, where he appeared as a conductor and gave Leopolis as a solo cellist and as

Photo: Elzbieta Ujazdowska Elzbieta Photo: premières of a number of works by Lutosławski, Penderecki, Pärt and others in Ukraine. He concertmaster of the cello section. Y is well known as a promoter of Polish and Ukrainian contemporary music, and pays special attention to the works of composers of the young and middle generations. K 5 8.579005 6 8.579005