Shostakovich Sonata No. 2 Mov1 and 2. Valentina Lisitsa

We all wonder from time to time how things look on other side , but resign to the thought that nobody came back from there to tell us how things are. With a few Dante had created his own, albeit imagined, Inferno. Shostakovich descended a real inferno, lived through it and came out alive to tell the story, to bear a testimony to the hell on earth. What else can you call it when people bright, thinking, loving people millions of them are sentenced to living on 125 grams a day of 50 sawdust bread ration ( and only those ablebodied or wellconnected ), then to eating their pets and pests, belts and shoes ( with scraped off the walls wallpaper paste being an exquisite delicacy ), then their dead, and then their This September ( 8th 21st ) marks 70th anniversary of beginning of Siege of Leningrad, one of the deadliest and darkest episodes in the history of European civilization (if you can still call it a civilization ). This magnificent city rightly