Valentin Silvestrov was forced to leave his native Ukraine after the Russian invasion of 2022, and his earlier music has an almost prescient quality that seems to express the fate of his homeland. The intimate Violin Concerto and the heartfelt, one-movement Eighth Symphony are notable for their economy of expression and emphasis on beauty, depth and harmony. Silvestorv’s “metaphorical style,” where fragments of Romantic and late-Classical music drift like distant memories, creates a poignant dialogue between past and present in his introspective Symphony No. 8. Following their acclaimed recording of Silvestrov’s Symphony for Violin and Orchestra, “Widmung,” violinist Janusz Wawrowski reunites with conductor Christopher Lyndon-Gee and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra for the concerto. Both works are new to the WFMT library.