Jane Jones introduces the concerto that was saved for posterity by a virtuoso wife! One of the most talked about partnerships in classical music must be that between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, ...

Take a look at Schumann’s 78-key piano, a new invention at the time, and then listen to Dr. Richard Kogan, violinist Scott Yoo and more perform Schumann’s piano quintet. How Other Composers Changed ...

Intensity. There's no more appropriate word to describe Robert Schumann. Everything in his life seemed to be done with nothing less than total commitment, from his unrelenting pursuit of the love of ...

This pairing of Schumann’s larger-scale chamber works has lightness and clarity, the instruments are beautifully balanced It’s eight years now since violinist Isabelle Faust, cellist Jean-Guihen ...

“Getting to have that back and forth, give and take, with such exceedingly fine musicians — this is really a beautiful thing,” Jonathan Biss said about his upcoming performance with the Boston ...

Most women in 19th-century Europe were encouraged to learn the piano as a way to attract husbands, but it was never intended that they would pursue a career in music. Despite these constraints, Clara ...

At the dawn of the Romantic era, Schumann’s rich musical imagination takes flight in enchanting works for solo piano. Schumann’s first 23 opus numbers are all for piano and represent a unique phase in ...

The Argentinian pianist is swept away by the poetry of this ‘story of passion and abandon’ One of my first encounters with Schumann’s music was when I was quite young. I remember having an LP of a ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor Alexander Melnikov, Piano Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Robert Schumann, Composer Piano Trio No. 2 Isabelle Faust, Violin Robert Schumann, ...

In today’s large concert-halls a pianist playing on a period instrument is liable to be reduced to a faint tinkling in the distance. On disc it is another matter: Alexander Melnikov shows how ...

This is the second in a three-part series exploring Schumann’s concertos and piano trios on gut strings and a period piano, and as the slightly creepy cover photo spells out – shadows of violinist ...

Robert Schumann was a German composer and critic born in Zwickau on June 8, 1810. A quirky, problematic genius, he wrote some of the greatest music of the Romantic era, and also some of the weakest.