Widor: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 1 & La Nuit de Walpurgis
World premiere recordings
Sergey Levitin (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Orchestral Choice
This valuable new release, the third volume in Martin Yates's Widor series, shows exactly why the Goethe-inspired score enjoyed success during the composer's lifetime…it is an orchestral tour...
Widor: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 1 & La Nuit de Walpurgis
World premiere recordings
Sergey Levitin (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
Purchase product
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Orchestral Choice
This valuable new release, the third volume in Martin Yates's Widor series, shows exactly why the Goethe-inspired score enjoyed success during the composer's lifetime…it is an orchestral tour...
About
The third volume in Dutton Epoch’s exploration of Widor’s orchestral music will delight and surprise in equal measure. Conductor Martin Yates writes: “The recordings of the orchestral works of Widor came about simply because I could not believe that the composer who we all knew through his Organ Symphonies had written nothing else of value. I soon discovered there was a considerable amount of orchestral music and that some of it, La Nuit de Walpurgis for instance, had been celebrated during Widor’s lifetime.” In addition to that evocative and gripping score, here we feature the delightful First Symphony and the unknown Violin Concerto, the latter in a superb performance by the brilliant Russian soloist Sergey Levitin.
Contents and tracklist
- Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sergey Levitin (soloist)
- Martin Yates
- Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sergey Levitin (leadvocalist)
- Martin Yates
- Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sergey Levitin (soloist)
- Martin Yates
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineJune 2015Orchestral Choice
June 2015
This valuable new release, the third volume in Martin Yates's Widor series, shows exactly why the Goethe-inspired score enjoyed success during the composer's lifetime…it is an orchestral tour de force full of striking ideas in which the RSNO players revel.
August 2015
Whatever you think of the material, one has to acknowledge Widor the master orchestrator, Dutton's sumptuously engineered sound and the full-bodied, punchy playing of the RSNO, who give every impression of thoroughly enjoying themselves.