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, ...

Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' Robert Schumann, Composer Swedish Chamber Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor (Die) Braut von Messina Robert Schumann, Composer Swedish Chamber Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, ...

This week, learn the full story behind Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell" Overture. Plus, we'll hear two towering musical expressions of nature with Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 and Richard ...

The composer Robert Schumann suffered increasingly from mental illness, until his institutionalized death at 46. Speculation as to causes ranges from a brain tumor to poisonous effects of a mercury ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review | 'Faust' By Anthony Tommasini As a bookish young man born to a literary household, Schumann thought seriously of becoming a writer. In a ...

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 ...

There were lovely moments Friday night in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's performances of the Schumann Piano Concerto (with Hélène Grimaud) and Brahms Fourth Symphony. But, with music director Fabio ...