On 19 October 2023 the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall hosted the premiere of Vladimir Gorlinsky’s “Towards the Light”. A little over a year later, Kompozitor Publishing House released a book devoted entirely to this opus. Such a step is a risk and a bold experiment. Firstly, the audience for a work of this kind can hardly be truly wide. And secondly, whichever way you look at it, sceptical remarks are bound to be heard: “Why this particular piece? What makes it better than hundreds of others, that it has been granted such an honour?”