One of the many pleasures of Alicia de Larrocha`s Allied Arts recital of Schumann piano works Sunday afternoon in Orchestra Hall was the acute manner in which she drew connections between Schumann the ...

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 ...

One of the 19 th century’s most important musical power couples, Robert and Clara Schumann, will be the focus Thursday of a concert by the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach. More to the point for ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Getting to have that back and forth, give and take, with such exceedingly fine musicians — this is really a beautiful thing,” Jonathan Biss said about his upcoming performance with the Boston ...

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 ...

ANGELA HEWITT made her international reputation by playing Bach on the modern grand piano: a great achievement when you consider how many trends were working against that treatment, because of the ...

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 ...