"Valentin Silvestrov was forced to leave his native Ukraine after the Russian invasion of 2022. His music has a prescient quality that unerringly seems to express the fate of his homeland. The intimate Violin Concerto and the heartfelt, single-span Eighth Symphony are notable for their economy of expression and emphasis on beauty, depth and harmony. This is music that hovers on the edge of silence in an uplifting homage to love and humanity, hope and renewal." (naxos.com)
Opname: 1986
Opname: 2006, 2007
"Silvestrov is not just the Ukraine's most prominent composer but also a major voice in the music of our time: a quiet voice; one that some will pigeon-hole at the soft end of New Spirituality. But even a first encounter should suggest the presence of deeper perspectives. Russian commentators have long since ranged him alongside Schnittke, Gubaidulina and Denisov as one of the most important figures that came to maturity in the 1970s. It was then that he produced music like the two Cantatas. Both blend Webernian angularity with ecstatic lyricism. It was the trance-like element that won out, as Silvestrov set out to explore a world of nostalgic beauty he had previously only glimpsed through the chinks of his modernist armour. This makes the Ode to a Nightingale (1983) the most compelling work here. The Cantatas are performed with delicacy and conviction, and Jana Ivanilova beautifully catches the fragile, floating quality Silvestrov asks for in the song-cycle. Superbly recorded." (Gramophone)
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