This haunting hymn “Spaseniye sodelal” (Salvation is Created) Op. 25, No. 5, by Pavel Chesnokov, is performed beautifully by the Warsaw University of Technology Academic Choir under Justyna Pakulak. The sadness in this melody carries a heavy history: Chesnokov composed it just before the 1917 Communist Revolution. Soon after, sacred music was banned, his cathedral destroyed, and he was forced to compose only secular works. He never heard his hymn performed again and tragically died in 1944, star