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.

World premiere recordings

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Hybrid Disc. This SACD is compatible with all CD players.

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CDLX 7315

“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.” “Sergey Levitin’s honey-toned advocacy” John Allison, BBC Music Magazine

“This valuable new release, … it is an orchestral tour de force [La nuit de Walpurgis] full of striking ideas in which the RSNO players revel.” “All … world premiere recordings, but the Violin Concerto required special detective and editorial work by Yates, well worth the effort to judge from this performance with the lyrical Sergey Levitin. Full of attractive ideas ...” Jeremy Nicholas, Gramophone, August 2015