Cardiff Week
Live at St. David's Hall, Cardiff viola player Timothy Ridout, a 麻豆社 Radio 3 New Generation Artist, and pianist Chiao-Ying Chang perform viola sonatas by Hummel and Rubinstein.
A week of music-making in Cardiff continues with the last in this series of live lunchtime concerts from St. David's Hall. Today the viola player Timothy Ridout, a 麻豆社 Radio 3 New Generation Artist is joined by pianist Chiao-Ying Chang in a pairing of two sonatas for viola, both youthful works written over fifty years apart.
A virtuoso pianist, Hummel was pupil of Mozart's and like his teacher, toured Europe extensively as a performer. There as shades of Mozart to be heard in this early sonata, one of three which Hummel wrote in 1798, when he was just 20. By contrast Anton Rubinstein, who also found fame as a concert pianist, came to write his viola sonata in 1855 in a style that looks forward to the romanticism of Brahms.
Hummel: Sonata for Viola and Piano, op 5, no 3
Anton Rubinstein: Viola Sonata in F minor for Viola and Piano op 49
Timothy Ridout, viola
Chiao-Ying Chang, piano
Producer: Johannah Smith for 麻豆社 Wales
