Elgar: Viola Concerto - Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra Classical Harmonia Mundi

Elgar: Viola Concerto - Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra

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Elgar: Viola Concerto - Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra

Label Catalogue Number:
902618DI

Release Date: January 2023
Originally recorded in January 2023

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 its 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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International Classical Music Award 2024 Nomination in the Concertos category

International Classical Music Awards 2024

Winner of the Gramophone Concerto Award 2023

2023 Gramophone Award

Performance **** Recording ****

Terry Blain – BBC Music magazine – March 2023

Recording of the Month - February

****½

Clive Paget - Limelight magazine – 24 January 2023

Editor’s Choice – Orchestral

“… A Bloch recordings go (sadly there are still too few of them on the market), this is without question one of the finest. The music is quite simply glorious, more than a match for the Elgar Concerto.”

Rob Cowan – Gramophone magazine – February 2023

“As Timothy Ridout’s fine performance with Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra shows, the concerto is entirely convincing as a viola work...It could even be argued that the central pair of movements are more effective in the viola version than in the original – Ridout makes the scherzo fabulously nimble and precise, and the long aching lines of the Adagio even more plangent.” ****

The Guardian – 19 January 2023

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