Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu – A Lionel Tertis Celebration (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:07:52 minutes | 4,51 GB | Genre: Classical
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Lionel Tertis (1876-1975), a great genius of the viola, is little known to today’s public.
Timothy Ridout pays tribute to this key figure in his instrument’s history with a flamboyant programme featuring music by Tertis’s friends, teachers and students alongside some of his own original works and transcriptions.
A marvellous musical journey, rich in discoveries.
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Timothy Ridout & Frank Dupree – A Poet’s Love, Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet – Schumann: Dichterliebe (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:28 minutes | 954 MB | Genre: Classical
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In this debut recording for harmonia mundi, the young viola prodigy Timothy Ridout and his musical accomplice Frank Dupree celebrate the power of love, with selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, performed in Borisovsky’s popular arrangement, and with their own transcription of Schumann’s Dichterliebe. The voice of the heart and the soul of candour, here the viola displays an astonishing range of emotions and expressive colours – from boisterous to tender or introspective in the Prokofiev excerpts, while also mirroring the myriad nuances of Heine’s poems in Schumann’s sublime musical love letter to his Clara.
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Timothy Ridout, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne & Jamie Phillips – Music for Viola & Chamber Orchestra: Vaughan Williams, Martinů, Hindemith & Britten (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:25 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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The wealth of music composed for the viola in the 20th century almost lets one forget the dearth of it in the 19th, which brought forth only two solo works of note: Hector Berlioz’s Harold in Italy, a concerto commissioned by Paganini that sidelines the viola so much he refused to play it; and Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote, in which the solo viola is relegated to the part of the Don’s sidekick Sancho Panza. Sidelined and sidekicked – the viola’s fate seemed a fulfilment of the oft-quoted line from Quantz’s sometime flute treatise that “the viola is largely regarded among musicians as being of little significance”. It was only really in the 20th century that composers realised that the viola’s status of an in-between instrument could actually be to its advantage. It’s bigger than a violin, but tuned like a cello, and is both warmer in tone than the former, and much more agile than the latter. The viola then had the good fortune to become the preferred instrument of several important composers. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) briefly toyed with going professional on it; Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) went the whole hog and made a living from it in the Amar Quartet and as a soloist; and Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) too was a violist, though he kept his public performing activities to the piano and the podium.
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Francesca Dego, Timothy Ridout, Laura van der Heijden, Federico Colli – Mozart: The Piano Quartets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:18 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following a highly successful series of concerts in the summer of 2022, Francesca Dego, Timothy Ridout, Laura van der Heijden, and Federico Colli headed into the studio to record Mozart’s Piano Quartets. Whilst he may not have been the first composer to add a viola to the popular piano trio, Mozart was certainly the first to do so with such outstanding success. In his piano quartets, the strings become an equal partner to the piano, rather than mere accompaniment – much as in his piano concertos. This link is reinforced by his choice of form – unlike his string quartets, the piano quartets have three movements rather than four: a full-bodied movement in sonata form, a lighter central slow movement in a related key, and a rondo finale. Both works were composed during the three-year period, from February 1784 to December 1786, in which Mozart wrote twelve piano concertos. The first quartet is written in the key of G minor – rarely used by Mozart – and the overall mood is quite dark, almost disturbing. The second quartet, in E flat major, is by contrast much sunnier in atmosphere. Consequently, the two works together make for a very satisfying programme.
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Lucy Crowe, Claire Barnett-Jones, Marcus Farnsworth, Iain Burnside, Catrin Finch, Timothy Ridout – The Jade Mountain – Songs by Edmund Rubbra (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:47 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Der englische Spätromantiker Edmund Rubbra ist vor allem für sein symphonisches Werk bekannt, doch er komponierte auch eine ganze Reihe von Vokalwerken und schuf während seines gesamten kompositorischen Wirkens Lieder. Diese zeichnen sich durch ihre abwechslungsreiche Begleitung aus (weniger als die Hälfte sind für Klavier gesetzt, der Rest für Harfe, Streichquartett, Streichorchester oder ganzes Orchester). Diese CD enthält alle seine veröffentlichten Lieder mit Klavier- und Harfenbegleitung und umfasst die ersten und letzten Lieder des Komponisten.
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Timothy Ridout, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Martyn Brabbins – Elgar: Viola Concerto – Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 58:56 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
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Timothy Ridout gives us the opportunity to discover the splendid viola version of Elgar’s famous Cello Concerto – an arrangement approved by the composer, who conducted it’s premiere in 1930. In addition to this deeply moving work, he gives us a powerful, poetic reading of Bloch’s all too rarely performed Suite for Viola and Orchestra, in which the Swiss composer indulged his fascination with the Orient.
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Michael Spyres, Timothy Ridout, Orchestre Philharmonique De Strasbourg, John Nelson – Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7 – Harold en Italie, Op. 16 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:38 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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Internationally acclaimed “baritenor” Michael Spyres commands parts for high tenor as well as baritone with the same fulminance and nonchalance – in both registers he has “the operatic world at his feet,” Gramophone Magazine raved. For Berlioz’s collection of art songs Les Nuits d’été, the exceptional singer now makes use of his entire range and presents himself for the first time also in the bass; this makes the recording a unique one worldwide. The melancholy love lament appears on the album Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été & Harold en Italie, recorded by the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg under the direction of John Nelson.
The eighty-year-old American conductor John Nelson is considered one of the most important interpreters of Berlioz’s œuvre. With this new album, he adds two more works to his award-winning Berlioz cycle: in addition to Les Nuits d’été (in the orchestral version from 1856), the symphony for viola Harold en Italie. Berlioz had written it on commission from the devil’s violinist Paganini. Unlike what the latter had ordered, however, Berlioz did not write a virtuoso showpiece; he declared the viola to be a “melancholy dreamer in the sense of Byron’s poetry.” The romantic indulgence is interpreted by “the uncannily talented Timothy Ridout, recently voted among the BBC’s New Generation Artists”
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Doric String Quartet, Timothy Ridout – Mendelssohn: The String Quintets (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:30 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Doric String Quartet is firmly established as one of the leading quartets of its generation, receiving enthusiastic responses from audiences and critics around the globe. Following their acclaimed recordings of Mendelssohn’s string quartets, here the quartet is joined by leading violist Timothy Ridout for an album of Mendelssohn’s two string quintets. These were written at the beginning and end of his short but remarkable compositional life. Mendelssohn composed No. 1 in 1826, shortly before the Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, when he was just seventeen. No. 2 was written in 1845, when he was thirty-six, a year before the première of Elijah and just two years before his death.
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Adam Walker, Timothy Ridout, James Baillieu – French Works for Flute (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:01 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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French Works for Flute is the Chandos début of Adam Walker, ably accompanied by James Baillieu. The pair is joined by the violist Timothy Ridout in Duruflé’s Prélude, récitatif et variations. At the forefront of a new generation of wind soloists, Adam Walker was appointed principal flute of the London Symphony Orchestra in 2009 at the age of twenty-one. Built around three major works (Widor’s Suite, Jean-Pierre Rampal’s edition of Franck’s Violin Sonata, and Duruflé’s flute trio), the programme proves an excellent showcase for Walker’s prodigious talent – effortless virtuosity, ethereal sound, and above all outstanding musical expression.
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