On a new recital album, Evgeny Kissin brings to the fore many of the virtuoso qualities that have made him a star attraction among pianists of his generation: pianistic command, demonic energy, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Bravery was a keynote in composer Schumann’s mental health struggles and his amorous relationship with Clara Wieck. His illness and his ...

Schumann had written brilliant sets of character pieces before, but this one surpasses them in its sheer imaginative reach. Carnaval has the unpredictability and fantasy of a dreamworld, the music ...

Stephen Johnson tries to uncover the mysteries of Schumann's piano suite Carnaval, a work containing many musical puzzles and allusions. Show more Robert Schumann would definitely be a cryptic ...

The latest release from the British pianist Daniel Grimwood explores music by Robert and Clara Schumann and Liszt, using an exquisite 1856 piano from Érard’s London factory. Now in the collection of ...

A collection which has given me great pleasure. Five hours of Kempff’s Schumann for DG‚ intelligently presented and in nicely freshened sound‚ make a handsome box. Sample it anywhere and there can be ...

"My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale...I often feel as if I were dead...I seem to be losing my mind." Robert Schumann was 18 years old when he wrote that, trying to describe a state he ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Anthony Tommasini Allan KozinnVivien Schweitzer and Steve Smith As the Schumann bicentennial year winds down, the classical music critics of The ...

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 ...

His performing career was thwarted, but Schumann’s wild imagination and prolific output made his name as a great romantic. Schumann was the Romantic era’s gentle revolutionary. Although he was ...