"As usual, Lin's talent for creating enterprising programs is matched by intelligent musicianship, a technique that can handle anything, and a big, generous tone." -- ClassicsToday [10/10 rating! for HNS 98480]

The music of Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov is a unique and delicate tapestry of dramatic and emotional textures that freely alludes to the entire history of music. Beginning his creative career in the radical Soviet avant-garde, Silvestrov demonstrated an almost painful sensitivity to the intimacy that music can create between performer and listener. He would later refute his modernist roots, saying "the most important lesson of the avant-garde is to be free of all conceived ideas, particularly those of the avant-garde," and began composing a series of works entitled Postludium that initiated the elegiac, poetic, and highly personal relationship with silence which has come to characterize his most recent music.