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Special offer. Telemann - Bach - Britten - Shaw
Timothy Ridout (viola)
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st February 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Young Talent of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Instrumental
This is an album that proclaims the viola as a distinctive, individual solo instrument, ideally served here by its skilled interpreter...this [Bach] Chaconne seems to sum up Ridout's whole approach...
Special offer. Telemann - Bach - Britten - Shaw
Timothy Ridout (viola)
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st February 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Young Talent of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Instrumental
This is an album that proclaims the viola as a distinctive, individual solo instrument, ideally served here by its skilled interpreter...this [Bach] Chaconne seems to sum up Ridout's whole approach...
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The fact that Timothy Ridout has recorded a whole album of music for unaccompanied viola before the age of thirty is a telling indication of the meteoric rise of this prodigious, boundary-pushing artist. As is his choice of contrasting the Baroque era (Telemann and Bach) with two figures of modern music, in Britten's rarely heard Elegy and Caroline Shaw's in manus tuas. This program is a breathtaking ode to the viola over the centuries, played with all the fire of youth.
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Timothy Ridout goes solo
21st Feb 2025
The British violist displays a bullet-proof technique and vast tonal palette allied to formidable musical intelligence in a programme of unaccompanied works by Telemann, JS Bach, Britten and Shaw.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week21st February 2025
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Gramophone MagazineApril 2025Editor's Choice
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BBC Music MagazineJune 2025Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards2025Young Talent of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2025
June 2025
This is an album that proclaims the viola as a distinctive, individual solo instrument, ideally served here by its skilled interpreter...this [Bach] Chaconne seems to sum up Ridout's whole approach as a creative combination of sustained sound with musical argument, perfectly balanced.
April 2025
This is yet another terrific release from Ridout, who again plays a 16th-century Peregrino di Zanetto with all the soul and panache of an Old Master.
21st February 2025
Telemann's Fantasia No. 1 makes for an engaging curtain-raiser, the opening Largo unfolding with an airy, expansive grace...Perhaps the main event, though, is the final work: Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin, transcribed by Simon Rowland-Jones. Once your ears have adjusted to the lower keys you quickly forget that this music was ever intended for another instrument, especially in a performance as technically accomplished and nuanced as this.
3rd March 2025
The musical pinnacle is reached with Bach’s D minor Partita...Earlier pleasures include Caroline Shaw’s In manus tuas (21st-century ruminations on 16th-century Tallis), and two engaging fantasies by Bach’s friend Telemann, who composed as easily as he drew breath. You could say something similar about Ridout’s viola playing: so fluent, so confident, so glad to be alive.
