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 ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Changed times: it seems only yesterday that the Berlin Philharmonic was Deutsche Grammophon’s in-house orchestra.

Ein gängiges Urteil über Robert Schumann lautet, dass er nicht vernünftig orchestrieren konnte. 1841 schrieb er seine Vierte Symphonie - für den Dirigenten Heinz Holliger eine äußerst zwingende ...

Robin Ticciati's approach to Schumann's four symphonies is like that of an expert make-up artist who cherishes every last aspect of the faces he works on. The highlighting of features is so pronounced ...

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For his much-anticipated TSO début, the Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival presents a meaty programme of excellent pieces, from Schumann’s urgent ...

Schumann is a composer whose symphonies don’t always sound happy in their skin. Or, at least, not in their orchestration, which has been much criticised over the years for its instrumental doublings ...

Charles Hazlewood sheds new light on Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 4 in D minor (Op. 120) by exploring the original version of the work, composed in 1841. In the process Charles questions the often ...

Schumann's Symphony No. 4 in D minor was first completed in 1841 and then heavily revised in 1851. The composer's widow, Clara, later claimed that the first version had just been a sketch which was ...