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, ...

In which Schumann reinvented his own compositional language and created an alternative way of thinking about the symphony – despite the onset of the syphilis that was eventually to kill him Here's the ...

The symphony lives at the core of classical music. CPR Classical focuses on the robust 150 year period when key composers created the foundational architecture of the symphony. What is a symphony and ...

Cellist Johannes Moser joins the Auckland Philharmonia in Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations.

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 ...