Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante puts the violin and viola into the spotlight, paving the way for Bruckner’s monumental, visionary symphonic statement.

On Tour in Shanghai

Shanghai Oriental Art Center

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On Tour in Beijing

National Centre for the Performing Arts

The composer Sofia Gubaidulina who died in March 2025 once admitted: “while I am composing, I pray”. The heightened intensity of her Concerto for Viola and Orchestra oscillates between “down-to-earthness” and “heavenly aspiration”. Sir Antonio Pappano presents the work with ‘his’ London Symphony Orchestra along with the unfinished 9th Symphony by Anton Bruckner. Its dedication to “dear God” indicates what Bruckner was attempting to express in music that was literally composed on his deathbed: a confrontation with the “ultimate questions” in the style of a monumental “sinfonia da chiesa”.

London Symphony Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker

Sofia Gubaidulina’s Concerto puts the viola in the spotlight in a work that slowly builds to an intense, uplifting conclusion, paving the way for Anton Bruckner’s monumental, visionary symphonic statement.

On Tour in Berlin

Philharmonie Berlin

Mozart was just 18 when he wrote his only Bassoon Concerto, packed with youthful high-jinks and featuring an Andante of heart-melting loveliness 

LSO Chamber Orchestra/Jaime Martín

LSO St Luke's

Death and the Maiden

Villa Marigola

The irony of history

Timothy Ridout’s Viola Day opens with the classical refinement of the Duo in F by Alessandro Rolla, best known today as Paganini’s teacher, and continues with a delightful arrangement for three violas of Beethoven’s Trio in C Op. 87 by the legendary violist Lionel Tertis, a work conceived for two oboes and cor anglais. Alan Shulman’s reflective Theme and Variations signals a change of mood as does the arrangement of Dvořák’s Czech Suite by Sancho Egnaño, described by Grove’s Dictionary of Music as the amateur viola-playing son of a Spanish ‘bull maintenance technician’.

Timothy Ridout viola; Hélène Clément viola; Ting-Ru Lai viola; Matthew Lipman viola; Eivind Ringstad viola; Georgy Kovalev viola; James Baillieu piano

Wigmore Hall

Timothy Ridout crowns his Viola Day with a programme that celebrates the versatility of his instrument and the breadth of its repertoire. The programme includes York Bowen’s rarely performed Fantasie Quartet, a tour de force for four violas, and a brace of miniatures by Frank Bridge, first published in 1908 in a Viola Library volume edited by Lionel Tertis, then professor of viola at the Royal Academy of Music in London and already a star soloist. The concert ends with Benjamin Dale’s noble Introduction and Andante for six violas, written for Tertis and his RAM class.

Eivind Ringstad

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 14, 2026

Timothy Ridout viola; Hélène Clément viola; Ting-Ru Lai viola; Matthew Lipman viola; Eivind Ringstad viola; Georgy Kovalev viola; James Baillieu piano · Wigmore Hall

Nov 14, 2026

Timothy Ridout viola; Hélène Clément viola; Ting-Ru Lai viola; Matthew Lipman viola; Eivind Ringstad viola; Georgy Kovalev viola; James Baillieu piano · Wigmore Hall

Past events

Sep 23, 2026

On Tour in Shanghai · London Symphony Orchestra

Sep 16, 2026

On Tour in Beijing · London Symphony Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Viola in Viola Concerto by Gubaidulina

Berliner Philharmoniker

Viola in Death and the Maiden by Schubert

Lerici Music Festival

Viola in Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major by Mozart

London Symphony Orchestra

Viola in Fantasy and Quartet by Bowen

Wigmore Hall

Viola in Viola, Viola by Benjamin

Wigmore Hall

Viola in Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra by Mozart

Barbican Centre

Viola in Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in E-flat major by Mozart

London Symphony Orchestra

Viola in Viola Duo in F by Rolla

Wigmore Hall

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