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 ...

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 ...

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.

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Two works by these composers have been marginalized in classical music, but they were never forgotten, as their histories show. By Sarah Fritz and A.

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 Cello and Orchestra Raphael Wallfisch, Cello Robert Schumann, Composer Niklas Willén, Conductor Pforzheim South-West German Chamber Orchestra (5) Stücke im Volkston Raphael Wallfisch, ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Anthony Tommasini Allan KozinnVivien Schweitzer and Steve Smith As the Schumann bicentennial year winds down, the classical music critics of The ...

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, ...

The concerto fires up with such vigour that it feels like Brahms, not Schumann. This is, unusually, a performance on gut strings of Schumann’s late, neglected Violin Concerto and that gives it all the ...