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 ...

The two-disc set of six works, which includes two of Schumann’s best known keyboard pieces, feels a little studied at points, but the playing is immaculate Having worked his way through the sonatas of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 instituting its series of mini-festivals this summer, the Aspen Music Festival and School is promoting the idea that a grasp of the context in which classical music was composed leads to a fuller ...

Clara Schumann did something unthinkable for a woman in the 19th century. She composed music. And, lots of it. Solo piano music, romances for violin, a Piano Concerto, and most all of it was written ...

Clara Wieck Schumann was a German musician -- a pianist, composer, and teacher who lived from 1819-1896. She started playing piano at age 5, and was a child prodigy. She and her husband Robert ...

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 ...