‘This valuable new release, the third volume in Yates’s Widor series, shows exactly why the Goethe-inspired score enjoyed success during the composer’s lifetime: with its echoes of Liszt, it is an orchestral tour de force full of striking ideas in which the RSNO revel.’ John Allison
Widor
Violin Concerto; Symphony No. 1; La nuit de Walpurgis
Sergey Levitin; Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Martin Yates
Dutton Epoch CDLX7315
Read the rest of this review in the June 2015 issue of BBC Music Magazine
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