Edvinas Minkstimas performs Schnittke's Piano Concerto live. A dark and depressing, permeated with intonations of liturgical chant, jazzy and edgy harmonies, rhythms, this piece reminds of Solzhenitsyn writings, a gray, dark life of a common man in the Soviet era. This magnificent concerto opens with what could be interpreted as a startling doorbell during night - not a harbinger of good news.