Rachmaninoff Prelude G Sharp Valentina Lisitsa

Prelude g sharp minor Op. 32 No. 12 ...traditionally described as a sleigh ride, but this is not a joy ride. This is unmistakably a departure, and a very sad one - the feeling of loosing something forever, the feeling which painfully pinches your heart. Is it a foreboding of his last sleigh ride through flowing snow that pricked the face with a myriad of tiny needles -- never to see his beloved country again?