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, ...

In which Schumann reinvented his own compositional language and created an alternative way of thinking about the symphony – despite the onset of the syphilis that was eventually to kill him Here's the ...

A tortured Romantic genius — destined to die young — celebrates the beauty of nature and the majesty of a medieval cathedral. Robert and Clara Schumann arrived in the Rhineland city of Dusseldorf on 2 ...

Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 – by ...

It's one of the commonplaces of 19th‑century music history that Schumann devoted the first decade of his creative life entirely to piano music and only turned to other genres in the 1840s, completing ...

Marek Janowski conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in Schumann's Fourth Symphony The production values of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony's filmed performances are invariably exceptionally high, and ...

Robert Schumann thought of his fourth symphony as a symphonic fantasy, not a classical symphony. He wanted all four movements to be performed without pauses to focus on the work as a whole — and to ...

The first issue in Thomas Dausgard's Schumann cycle with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, containing the Second and Fourth Symphonies, was widely admired, and hearing their version of the First, it's ...

Acknowledged during his life as one of the all-time greats, Italian conductor Guido Cantelli was killed, aged only 36, in a plane crash in Paris in 1956. His discography was small, so this release of ...

Better late than never. Strangely for someone who loves Beethoven and Schubert, Claudio Abbado has never recorded Schumann's symphonies. But now, to celebrate his 80th birthday, Abbado gives us the ...

There are no special T-shirts on sale as swag for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Schumann Focus” festival, the way there have been for Gustavo Dudamel’s Beethoven and Mahler symphony cycles at Walt ...