Video: Timothy Ridout performs Franck's Violin Sonata arranged for viola

Video: Timothy Ridout performs Franck's Violin Sonata arranged for viola

Timothy Ridout performs Franck's Violin Sonata arranged for viola
Timothy Ridout performs Franck's Violin Sonata arranged for viola

BBC Music Magazine

BBC Music Magazine's August 2026 cover star, violist Timothy Ridout, has released Alto Appassionato – an album of French arrangements for viola and piano – with pianist Jonathan Ware on Harmonia Mundi.

Watch Ridout and Ware perform the Allegretto poco mosso from César Franck's popular Violin Sonata in the video below:

The August 2026 issue of BBC Music Magazine is on sale now!

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