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 ...
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 ...
This is the first instalment of a new Schumann cycle from Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. It aims high, promising "the possibility of listening to this music in a different way", ...
The two-disc set of six works, which includes two of Schumann’s best known keyboard pieces, feels a little studied at points, but the playing is immaculate Having worked his way through the sonatas of ...
Since he left Birmingham two years ago, Sakari Oramo has been chief conductor of two Nordic orchestras, continuing his tenure with the Finnish Radio Symphony, which began in 2003, and taking over the ...
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 ...
This is the second instalment of a period-instruments series pairing Schumann’s concertos and piano trios. Alexander Melnikov plays an 1837 Erard in the Piano Concerto, an 1847 Streicher in the Trio ...