A Poet's Love
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet and Schumann: Dichterliebe
Timothy Ridout (viola), Frank Dupree (piano)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
This is supreme vindication of what musical imagination can do, even to works unfamiliar from their original formats.
A Poet's Love
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet and Schumann: Dichterliebe
Timothy Ridout (viola), Frank Dupree (piano)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
This is supreme vindication of what musical imagination can do, even to works unfamiliar from their original formats.
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In their debut recording for harmonia mundi, the young viola prodigy Timothy Ridout and his musical accomplice Frank Dupree celebrate the power of love, with selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, performed in Borisovsky’s popular arrangement, and with their own transcription of Schumann’s Dichterliebe.
The voice of the heart and the soul of candour, here the viola displays an astonishing range of emotions and expressive colours – from boisterous to tender or introspective in the Prokofiev excerpts, while also mirroring the myriad nuances of Heine’s poems in Schumann’s sublime musical love letter to his Clara.
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineJuly 2026Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Editor's ChoiceAugust 2021
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International Classical Music Awards2022Nominated - Chamber Music
November 2021
This is supreme vindication of what musical imagination can do, even to works unfamiliar from their original formats.
August 2021
Ridout’s own transcription of Dichterliebe speaks of a deep understanding of the work’s emotional trajectory – his imaginative use of the instrument’s different registers gives the sense that the cycle is being shared out between contrasting voices (a Bostridge-esque tenor for the early songs, a meaty bass-baritone for the more declamatory Im Rhein and Ich grolle nicht), yet everything coheres beautifully.
