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, ...

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 ...

The Poway Symphony Orchestra will be concluding its 20th anniversary season with “Classical Gems.” The 4 p.m. Sunday, May 26 concert in the Poway Center for the Performing Arts will conclude with ...

“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 ...

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, ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov begin their project to record all of Schumann’s concertos and piano trios using gut strings and a piano of Schumann’s time (a Streicher of ...

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 instalment of a period-instruments series pairing Schumann’s concertos and piano trios. Alexander Melnikov plays an 1837 Erard in the Piano Concerto, an 1847 Streicher in the Trio ...