Alto appassionato Timothy Ridout & Jonathan Ware

• Léon Honnoré (1859 - 1930): Morceau de concert, Op. 23:
• 1 Honnoré: Morceau de concert, Op. 23 07:12
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924): 2 Songs, Op. 1:
• 2 Fauré: 2 Songs, Op. 1: No. 2, Mai (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Timothy Ridout) 01:58
• 3 Fauré: 2 Songs, Op. 1: No. 1, Le Papillon et la Fleur (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Timothy Ridout) 02:20
• Henri Büsser (1872 - 1973): Appasionato, Op. 34, C-Sharp Minor:
• 4 Büsser: Appasionato, Op. 34, C-Sharp Minor 05:50
• Gabriel Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 23:
• 5 Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 23: No. 1, Les Berceaux (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Timothy Ridout) 02:43
• 2 Mélodies, Op. 46:
• 6 Fauré: 2 Mélodies, Op. 46: No. 2, Clair de lune, (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Timothy Ridout) 02:47
• George Enescu (1881 - 1955): Concertstück:
• 7 Enescu: Concertstück 08:32
• Gabriel Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 7:
• 8 Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 7: No. 1, Après un rêve (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Timothy Ridout) 02:46
• 3 Songs, Op. 18:
• 9 Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 18: No. 1, Nell (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Timothy Ridout) 02:02
• César Franck (1822 - 1890): Violin Sonata, FWV 8, A Major (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Timothy Ridout):
• 10 Franck: Violin Sonata, FWV 8, A Major (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Timothy Ridout): I. Allegretto ben moderato 06:16
• 11 Franck: Violin Sonata, FWV 8, A Major (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Timothy Ridout): II. Allegro 07:45
• 12 Franck: Violin Sonata, FWV 8, A Major (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Timothy Ridout): III. Recitativo-Fantasia. Ben moderato - Molto lento 07:05
• 13 Franck: Violin Sonata, FWV 8, A Major (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Timothy Ridout): IV. Allegretto poco mosso 06:16
• Total Runtime 01:03:32

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Von der Innigkeit der Lieder Faurés bis zum Feuer der berühmten Sonate von Franck über Honnoré, Büsser und Enescu: Hier singt (im übertragenen Sinn!) die Bratsche das Loblied auf die von Lyrismus, Feinsinn und Ausdruckskraft geprägte französische Schule. Ein Programm wie gemacht für Timothy Ridout und Jonathan Ware, seinen Partner am Flügel.

"Ein programmatisch kluges und interessantes Album, im Detail gekonnt und unterhaltsam dargeboten, jedoch ohne interpretatorische Leuchttürme zu setzen." (Dr. Ingobert Waltenberger, onlinemerker.com)

Timothy Ridout, Bratsche
Jonathan Ware, Klavier

Timothy Ridout
Timothy Ridout’s 2025/26 season features appearances with many top international orchestras including BBC Symphony Orchestra/​Hannu Lintu, Orchestre de Paris/​Lorenza Borrani, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen/​Ed Gardner, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest/​Sir Mark Elder and Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra/​Donald Runnicles.

A popular soloist for many conductors Richard Egarr takes him to Residentie Orkest, Roberto Abbado to the Orchestra Filarmonica di Bologna, Mark Wigglesworth to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and Anthony Hermus to the Ulster Orchestra. In addition, he continues his close relationship with Sir Simon Rattle for Berlioz’ Harold in Italy on gut strings with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for concerts in London and Dublin.

Following the successful world premiere last season of Mark Simpson’s Viola Concerto Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Robin Ticciati, Ridout brings the work to Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with Andrew Manze, Musikkollegium Winterthur with Alexandre Bloch and Philharmonie Zuidnederlands with Duncard Ward.

A highly respected chamber musician, Ridout continues to present both solo and ensemble programmes across major venues and festivals. In summer 2025, he appeared at Verbier, Lanaudière, Salzburg, Rosendal, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Ryedale festival where he was Artist in Residence. This season, he plays around the UK with Federico Colli, with Leonkoros Quartet at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and with his regular quartet partners – Benjamin Grosvenor, Hyeyoon Park, Kian Soltani – at Vienna Musikverein.

In March 2026, he is Guest Artistic Director at Festspiele Frühling Mecklenburg Vorpommern presenting 17 programmes. He also continues his three-year residency at Junge Wilde in Dortmund and performs three different programmes at Wigmore Hall. In Asia, he plays at the very first edition of the Verbier Festival in Shenzhen, at Beare’s Premiere Music Festival in Hong Kong and at the NSO International Chamber Music Festival in Taipei. His other chamber partners include Janine Jansen, Frank Dupree, Isabelle Faust, Vilde Frang, Pablo Ferrández, Denis Kozhukhin and Klaus Mäkelä.

Recent orchestral highlights include concerts with Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Hamburger Symphoniker, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg and Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

Across his engagements, he has worked with conductors such as Sakari Oramo, Jonathan Darlington, Martyn Brabbins, Riccardo Minasi, Sir András Schiff, Lionel Bringuier, Sylvain Cambreling, Nicholas Collon, David Zinman, and Kazuki Yamada.

Known for his wide-ranging discography, Ridout regularly records for Harmonia Mundi and his next album features 20th century French music with pianist Jonathan Ware and is coming out in May 2026.

In 2025, he won the Opus Klassik award in the ​‘Young Instrumentalist of the Year’ category for his first solo viola album featuring works by Telemann, Bach, Britten and Shaw, and in 2024 he released an album which paid tribute to the great violist Lionel Tertis. Ridout also won a Gramophone Award for his recording of Elgar’s Cello Concerto, arranged for viola by Lionel Tertis, in the Concerto Category in 2023.

Previous recordings include works by Prokofiev, Schumann, Britten, Vaughan-Williams, Hindemith, Martinu and see Ridout collaborating with BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne as well as with pianists Frank Dupree and James Baillieu.

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and Kronberg Academy, Ridout has earned accolades such as First Prize at both the Lionel Tertis and Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competitions. As well as being a former BBC New Generation Artist, he is also a recipient of the Borletti Buitoni Trust Fellowship and was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society 2023 Award for Young Artist. He was the inaugural recipient of Hamburger Symphoniker’s Sir Jeffrey Tate Prize and took part in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program.

Timothy Ridout performs on a 1565 – 75 viola by Peregrino di Zanetto, generously on loan from a patron of the Beare’s International Violin Society.

Jonathan Ware
Acclaimed for his exemplary and spirited playing, chamber musician and accompanist Jonathan Ware is a regular guest at the world’s leading recital venues, and recent appearances include Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center, Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie Luxembourg, L’Auditori, the Concertgebouw, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Pierre Boulez Saal.

Appearing alongside some of today’s most exciting singers and instrumentalists, previous seasons saw Jonathan Ware with Matilda Lloyd at Fundação Gulbenkian, Kölner Philharmonie, MUPA Budapest and Konzerthuset Stockholm, with soprano Siobhan Stagg for at Pierre Boulez Saal, with Samuel Mariño at the Sala Sinfonica Pablo Casals in Puerto Rico, Simon Bode at Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall and with Jonathan Leibowitz on a UK tour to Bath, Falkirk and the Isle of Wight. New collaborations include performances with Bilal Alnemr at the Raketenstation, Hombroich, with violinist, Leia Zhu in Reims and Bilbao, and with Rowan Hellier at Glasgow Cathedral Festival. Of especial interest is Jonathan’s project — Kinderlieder - a concert series curated for young children with Lydia Mankopf from Lullula Music and Simone Easthope, which debuted at the Pierre Boulez Saal.

Highlights from long standing collaborations include recitals with Elsa Dreisig at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Kölner Philharmonie and Wigmore Hall, with Bejun Mehta at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Luxembourg and Mozartfest Augsburg; with Camilla Tilling at Spivey Hall in a Jenny Lind-inspired selection; Brenda Rae at Wigmore Hall in a programme of Schubert and Strauss, and with Timothy Ridout at the Vancouver Recital Society and Konserthaus Dortmund. Following recent appearances at Verbier Festival and Lied Festival Würzburg with Ema Nikolovska, the pair reunited at Wigmore Hall, where he also collaborated with tenors Kieran Carrel, Robin Tritschler and violinist Hana Chang.

Soprano Golda Schultz is a key collaborator with the duo’s specially devised programme of female composers ​‘This Be Her Verse’ touring to Berlin, Cologne, Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh, Philadelphia and Vancouver among others, and appearing last season at the Elbphilharmonie, Munich Festival, Schubertiade and Staatstheater Darmstadt as well as a North American tour visiting Princeton and the Schubert Club. This season will see the pair at Kirche Saanen in Gstaad. Highly acclaimed for his ​“especially fine form” (BBC Music Magazine) and ​“theatrical sensibility” (New York Times) for the related CD release on Alpha Classics, ​‘This Be Her Verse’ complements a quickly expanding discography with baritone Ludwig Mittelhammer for Berlin Classics, mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty for Genuin, oboist Olivier Stankiewicz for Delphian, Elsa Dreisig for Warner Classics, and Samuel Mariño for Decca.

Highlights in 2025/26 include a new programme with Golda Schultz, Dark Matter(s) which they will perform at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Pierre Boulez Saal, Hugo Wolf Akademie Stuttgart, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Shriver Hall and New Orleans Opera. With Samuel Mariño, Jonathan performs at Amigos de la Ópera Coruña and he returns to Wigmore Hall with Siobhan Stagg and Nathan Amaral.

Awards include the Pianist’s Prize at both Das Lied and Wigmore Hall/​Kohn Foundation International Song competitions, as well as First Prize with Ludwig Mittelhammer in the International Hugo Wolf Competition.

Born in Texas, Jonathan now resides in Berlin where he teaches at Hochschule Hanns Eisler and Barenboim-Said Academy. In addition, he frequently attends Samling Institute, Academia Vocalis and Verbier Festival as a mentor.

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