Heinz Holliger begins his survey of Schumann's orchestral music at the beginning. The Symphony in D minor was composed in 1841, straight after the First Symphony, and 10 years later, after revision, ...
The first issue in Thomas Dausgard's Schumann cycle with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, containing the Second and Fourth Symphonies, was widely admired, and hearing their version of the First, it's ...
It's one of the commonplaces of 19th‑century music history that Schumann devoted the first decade of his creative life entirely to piano music and only turned to other genres in the 1840s, completing ...
A Schumann scherzoPianist Martha Argerich joins violinists Dora Schwarzberg and Lucy Hall, violist Nobuko Imai and cellist Mischa Maisky to play the Scherzo from Robert Schumann's Piano Quartet in E ...
We explore the musical canon of one of the Romantic period’s most unsung composers. Working in a field overwhelmingly dominated by men, the 19th-century musician is quoted as saying sometime in her ...
You’ll need to wear headphones to experience this immersive 3D sound, so pop them on, and close your eyes. Composer: Robert Schumann Performers: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: John Storgårds ...
In which Schumann reinvented his own compositional language and created an alternative way of thinking about the symphony – despite the onset of the syphilis that was eventually to kill him Here's the ...
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