Valentin Silvestrov is Ukraine's leading composer and one of the most distinctive musical voices of our time. This album brings together the two superlative works of Silvestrov's early maturity - Postludium for Piano and Orchestra and the Symphony for Violin and Orchestra 'Widmung'. Recorded in the presence of the composer. The Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christopher Lyndon-Gee can also be heard on 8.574123 in Silvestrov's Symphony No. 7, Ode to a Nightingale and Piano Concertino.