Schumann’s sole completed piano concerto remains among his best-loved works. Jed Distler listens to a selection of the prominent pianists who have contributed to the concerto’s substantial discography ...

Music historian Wulf Konold reveals the story behind Robert Schumanns Piano Concerto in A minor op 54 in this program which also features a performance of the piece by pianist Martha Argerich and ...

You might think a program of German art songs — a singer singing 19th-century German poetry, to piano accompaniment — right up there in realms of musical esoterica. But Sunday afternoon’s program of ...

(Schumann immortalised this in his piano work Davidsbündlertänze ... Friedrich Wieck violently opposed the relationship between Robert and Clara, and his actions over the following seven years won him ...

Robert Schumann on a litograph by Josef Kriehuber ... and joins the crowd complaining that Chopin's work is "limited to that narrow scope of piano music"? To be fair, Schumann devoted far more ...

He has currently embarked on an all-Schumann ... Robert Chumbley (Etudes), and Stephen Taylor (Variations)-and his performance of the complete solo piano works and chamber music with piano of ...

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