Pianist Michelle Cann will perform Clara Schumann's first and only piano concerto with the Arkansas Symphony and conductor Geoffrey Robson this weekend at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance ...

With all its expertise in the music of its namesake era, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra’s forays into the classical and early Romantic repertory can yield abundant rewards. This week’s splendid ...

Deliberately hidden for 80 years and uncovered via messages from beyond the grave, Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D Minor will receive only its second Vancouver performance on Saturday and ...

It was just before six o'clock on a summer's evening, the sun still making its presence felt through the foliage as the train snaked its way along the riverbank. Our journey, from Munich to Berlin, ...

I want to pick up a strand that emerged here two weeks ago in another context and develop it a wee bit, because it concerns an extraordinary story in classical music. It relates to a new recording of ...

Alas, the rigour it brings to the big tuttis in the first movement make them sound more like interpolations in some 18th-century drama rather than a 19th-century concerto, although the orchestra does ...

Received wisdom has it that Schumann’s late works fall off creatively, mirroring the composer’s failing mental health. These period instrument performances think differently. I’ve never heard quite ...

It is our loss that the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Schumann should pass so little noticed. That may be because his music lacks the “show” and easy charm of his Romantic contemporaries.