Pianist Michelle Cann will perform Clara Schumann's first and only piano concerto with the Arkansas Symphony and conductor Geoffrey Robson this weekend at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance ...

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 ...

Robert and Clara Schumann were married on this date in 1840, and their musical lives were mutually influential. In 1845, Clara urged Robert to compose what would be his only Piano Concerto. And she ...

In today’s large concert-halls a pianist playing on a period instrument is liable to be reduced to a faint tinkling in the distance. On disc it is another matter: Alexander Melnikov shows how ...

From the J.S. Bach keyboard works of the Baroque era to Bartók’s note-splitting masterpiece of the 20th century, here are some of the greatest piano concertos ever to have been written. Piano ...

We’re highlighting the life and music of pioneering women in classical music every weekday during March for Women's History Month. The story and influence of Clara Schumann, her relationships and her ...

The next woman in our line of female composers is Clara Schumann. She might be the most famous of the early women pioneers in classical music. Nannerl Mozart was not allowed to play in public after a ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 54: II. Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 54: III. Allegro vivace Introduction and Allegro Appasionato in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Two works by these composers have been marginalized in classical music, but they were never forgotten, as their histories show. By Sarah Fritz and A.

‘Next to … Liszt’s Variations on Bach’s “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen” … I found the neoclassicist/neo-baroque corset worn by Brahms somewhat ...

Received wisdom has it that Schumann’s late works fall off creatively, mirroring the composer’s failing mental health. These period instrument performances think differently. I’ve never heard quite ...

Is Schumann’s songful Piano Concerto the music of a dreamer or a bright-eyed, still youthful romantic? Between them, young Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki and his conductor, Antonio Pappano, succeed in ...