Valentin Silvestrov. A powerful voice, defiant in exile.

Naxos Classical Spotlight by Raymond

Jul 25, 202520:07Music

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. Raymond Bisha introduces the wor...

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