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 ...

Pro Musica Rara, noted for its commitment to historically authentic instruments, devotes most of its attention to the 17th and 18th centuries. This weekend, the focus will spread to the 19th with ...

Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello Isabelle Faust, Violin Antoine Tamestit, Viola Jean-Guihen Queyras, Cello Alexander Melnikov, Piano Schumann’s was the first great piano quintet, an ...

MIDDLEBURY — In a musical evening where rising stars join forces with an established virtuoso, the Middlebury Performing Arts Series will present the Schumann Quartet and pianist Diana Fanning at 7:30 ...

Susie Park returns to perform with ProMusica Minnesota in a couple of piano quintets considered among the “Big 3” of the classical repertoire, said ProMusica Executive Director Bethel Balge. And to ...

Pianist Orion Weiss, who wowed Arkansas Symphony audiences over the weekend soloing in Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, had another chance to impress a smaller, but no less fervent, ...

The Emerson String Quartet, widely regarded as one of the world's premier chamber music ensembles since its founding in 1976, makes its PENTATONE debut with a recording of Schumann's three string ...

Early critics called it "tormented" and "unmusical." But opinions have changed a bit since then — it's now considered one of the greatest pieces of chamber music ever written. We'll hear a performance ...