Timothy Ridout: Alto Appassionato album review – engaging and smartly curated viola and piano programme

Ridout/Ware (Harmonia Mundi) Accomplished violist Ridout and pianist Jonathan Ware add bristling imagination and rich emotional layers to music by Franck, Fauré and more Friends and colleagues working side by side in the musical melting pot of fin-de-siecle Paris form the connective tissue in this attractive and smartly curated programme by violist Timothy Ridout and pianist Jonathan Ware. They open with Léon Honnoré’s engaging Morceau de concert, premiered in 1904 by viola pupils at the Par...

By Clive Paget