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 ...

Alexandra Dovgan plays piano concertos by Clara and Robert Schumann at the Konzerthaus, but it's the Kammerorchester Basel's performance of a forgotten symphony which most impresses.

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 ...

“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 ...

Daniel Hope, violinist of this quartet of friends, insists “we all leave our egos at the door”. The other three egos belong to Paul Neubauer (viola), David Finckel (cello) and Wu Han (piano). The four ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first time Jonathan Biss asked for piano lessons, he was 4. His musician parents said he was too young, but he kept asking. “There was music everywhere when I was growing up,” recalls Biss, who ...