I wonder if anybody might have the answer to a question that has remained unanswered for many years. Sometime after the disaster I saw a documentary on television (possibly a 60 minutes segment) on Chernobyl. While Pripyat had been evacuated for a while, there was a small human presence in the area, principally as guards at roadside checkpoints to prevent people from entering the exclusion zone. I also remember some people working in Pripyat as well.
Loudspeakers had been installed all over the area and one piece of classical music was played in an endless loop because the total silence of the area was driving the workers / guards to madness. I have to tried to find the name of the piece many times since then and have never had any success. It was absolutely the saddest music I’ve ever heard in my life.
About the closest thing I can compare it to would be Tchaikovsky’s “Hymn of the Cherubim” but I doubt that was it.
Can anybody help ?