If during a concert of classical music the cloak-room attendant had the opportunity to talk to the audience, what could he say? After all, the obligation to take a coat and issue a cloak-room ticket does not negate the ability to think and feel, and some topics and questions equally deeply affect and excite everyone.

This performance is neither a political statement, nor an attempt at enlightenment, nor even a way to ironicize reality, which seems to have been changing surprisingly little over the years, in some ways. “Rafalsonatа, Accompanied with Strings” derives from the desire to share that inexpressible, stunning, priceless sensation, when in a book - whether in the text or between the lines - you encounter something so consonant and intimately true for yourself, that resonance momentarily erases all boundaries between you and the author...