Mstislav Rostropovich performs the Sarabande from Bach’s Second Suite for Solo Cello in Dm at Checkpoint Charlie while the Berlin Wall comes down in November, 1989. Checkpoint Charlie was a police station that monitored all crossings between East-West. The Berlin Wall had been erected in 1961 to prevent a ‘brain drain’ of the Watch video…














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