Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Bravery was a keynote in composer Schumann’s mental health struggles and his amorous relationship with Clara Wieck. His illness and his ...

"My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale...I often feel as if I were dead...I seem to be losing my mind." Robert Schumann was 18 years old when he wrote that, trying to describe a state he ...

Alessandra Ammara’s finely honed technique and restless interpretative mind suit Schumann’s volatile musical personality, at least some of the time. She dives right into Carnaval’s “Préambule” with ...

Schumann had written brilliant sets of character pieces before, but this one surpasses them in its sheer imaginative reach. Carnaval has the unpredictability and fantasy of a dreamworld, the music ...

Stephen Johnson tries to uncover the mysteries of Schumann's piano suite Carnaval, a work containing many musical puzzles and allusions. Show more Robert Schumann would definitely be a cryptic ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Anthony Tommasini Allan KozinnVivien Schweitzer and Steve Smith As the Schumann bicentennial year winds down, the classical music critics of The ...

The British pianist Charles Owen has made some fine recordings, securing a quartet of Gramophone Editor's Choice accolades for albums of Poulenc, Jonathan Dove, Liszt and, with the violinist Augustin ...