Violist Timothy Ridout and pianist Jonathan Ware present works by friends and colleagues working side by side in the musical melting pot of fin de siècle Paris. The centerpiece of the album is César Franck’s Violin Sonata of 1886 performed in Paul-Louis Neuberth’s 1919 arrangement for viola. The program also features Léon Honnoré’s Morceau de concert, premiered in 1904 by viola pupils at the Paris Conservatoire where the instrument had only been admitted to the curriculum 10 years earlier. Transcriptions of beloved mélodies by Gabriel Fauré, George Enescu’s Concertstück, and Henri Büsser’s stormy Appassionato in C-sharp minor flesh out this thoughtful program.