Performer: Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMM90537677
Release: 2024
Size: 4.5 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Bowen: Viola Sonata No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 18
01. I. Allegro moderato
02. II. Poco lento e cantabile
03. III. Finale. Presto
04. Tertis: Sunset – Coucher du Soleil
05. Bridge: Pensiero
06. Bridge: Allegro appassionato (H82)
07. Brahms: Minnelied Op. 71 No. 5
08. Schumann: Romance in F sharp major, Op. 28 No. 2
09. Fauré: Élégie in C minor, Op. 24
10. Wolstenholme: Allegretto, Op. 17 No. 2
11. Kreisler: Liebesleid
Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro (in the style of Pugnani)
12. I. Praeludium
13. II. Allegro molto moderato
CD 02
01. Reed: Rhapsody for Viola & Piano
02. Coates: First Meeting
Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folksong
03. No. 1, Lovely on the Water
04. No. 2, Spurn Point
05. No. 3, Van Diemen’s Land
06. No. 4, She Borrowed Some of Her Mother’s Gold
07. No. 5, The Lady and the Dragon
08. No. 6, As I Walked Over London Bridge
09. Forsyth: Chanson celtique
10. Ireland: The Holy Boy
11. Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 19b No. 1 in E major ‘Sweet Remembrance’
12. Tertis: Hier au soir
13. Wolstenholme: The Question
14. Bowen: Obbligato to Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata
Clarke: Viola Sonata
15. I. Impetuoso
16. II. Vivace
17. III. Adagio
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.