Pianist Martha Argerich joins the Swiss-Italian Orchestra, the resident orchestra of the Lugano Festival in Switzerland, to play the Piano Concerto by Robert Schumann. Alexander Rabinovitch-Barakovsky ...

Jane Jones introduces the concerto that was saved for posterity by a virtuoso wife! One of the most talked about partnerships in classical music must be that between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a letter dated July 10 1839, Robert Schumann wrote to his beloved Clara, “You complete me as a composer, as ...

Schumann’s sole completed piano concerto remains among his best-loved works. Jed Distler listens to a selection of the prominent pianists who have contributed to the concerto’s substantial discography ...

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 ...