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 ...
Johannes Moser and Scott Yoo perform Brahms Double Concerto, 1st mvt. Johannes Moser and Scott Yoo perform Brahms Double Concerto, 1st movement. So Brahms came here to Baden-Baden, he wrote a few ...
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, ...
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, ...
Trio Wanderer capture Schumann’s playfulness in a group of works demanding contrast and balance Schumann composed four piano trios altogether – the three that are numbered, and a set of four pieces ...
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 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Yael Braunschweig AND you were feeling overwhelmed by the 118 different diagnoses recently tallied for Mozart’s final illness? Consider Robert ...
Robert Schumann was a German composer and critic born in Zwickau on June 8, 1810. A quirky, problematic genius, he wrote some of the greatest music of the Romantic era, and also some of the weakest.
In the second act, after Genoveva (soprano Anne Schwanewilms) is discovered with Drago and falsely accused of infidelity, she sings the moving prayer "O du, der über alle wacht" -- "Oh you, who watch ...