Picture a man swooning and raging with all the passions of youth. Every problem is a crisis, each feeling an ocean. His commitment to political and artistic freedom yields only to the irrepressible ...

Royal Bangkok Symphony Music School presents "Love Triangle", an afternoon of chamber music by Brahms and the Schumanns, at ...

Robert Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale, op. 52 (with additional movement, Childhood Dreams, composed in the style of Schumann by Paul Chihara) One of the cliché criticisms of Robert Schumann is ...

I have recently discovered a deep passion for the symphonies of Robert Schumann. Up until now, these pieces were elusive and unpredictable — more than a little like Schumann himself. The music has ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a letter dated July 10 1839, Robert Schumann wrote to his beloved Clara, “You complete me as a composer, as ...

In this 13-part series, pianist, teacher and author David Dubal explores the way the giants of the 19th century wrote for the solo piano. Each one-hour program will focus on a single composer, from ...

Schumann’s only piano concerto was a very long time in the making. Its success was undoubtedly down to his passionate relationship with Clara Wieck, who was to become his wife. In 1837, some three ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Gävle Symphony Orchestra Edvard Grieg, Composer Hannu Koivula, Conductor Janne Mertanen, Piano Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Robert Schumann, Composer Hannu Koivula ...

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, ...

Clara Schumann’s Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann is more than just a dazzling set of piano variations—it’s a love letter in music. She took a theme from Robert’s Bunte Blätter and transformed ...