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 ...

Better late than never. Strangely for someone who loves Beethoven and Schubert, Claudio Abbado has never recorded Schumann's symphonies. But now, to celebrate his 80th birthday, Abbado gives us the ...

Symphony No. 2 Claudio Abbado, Conductor Robert Schumann, Composer Mozart Orchestra Manfred, Movements: Overture Mozart Orchestra Claudio Abbado, Conductor Robert Schumann, Composer Genoveva, ...

The mid-19th century is still referred to as one of marking time for the symphony – when composers fought shy of the challenges posed by Beethoven, until Brahms rounded off the long genesis of his ...

The SCO concluded their two-part Schumann Symphony cycle with immaculate performances of two quite different works. With Symphony No 2 in C, conductor Robin Ticciati deftly highlighted its mercurial ...

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 are no special T-shirts on sale as swag for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Schumann Focus” festival, the way there have been for Gustavo Dudamel’s Beethoven and Mahler symphony cycles at Walt ...

Musick for His Majesty's Cornetts and Sackbutts London Symphony Orchestra Matthew Locke, Composer István Kertész, Conductor Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' London Symphony Orchestra István Kertész, Conductor ...