Pianist Inna Faliks traces musical odyssey from Soviet Ukraine via Faustian fantasy
Briefly

There is something very romantic about the idea that I was a dissident even then carrying this book with me...
In some of the newly commissioned works, Faliks speaks lines from the novel or mimics some of the characters, giving them a new life in the listener's ear...
Faliks at times strums the piano strings wildly 'as if I were a cat with claws' in 'Manuscripts Don't Burn'...
The pianist also whispers, hums and recites a passage of the text from Margarita's changing perspective during the devil's masquerade...
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