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 ...

Since he left Birmingham two years ago, Sakari Oramo has been chief conductor of two Nordic orchestras, continuing his tenure with the Finnish Radio Symphony, which began in 2003, and taking over the ...

Read more Alsop essays in her column "Marin Alsop on Music." I have recently discovered a deep passion for the symphonies of Robert Schumann. Up until now, these pieces were elusive and unpredictable ...

This is the final instalment of Thomas Dausgaard's Schumann cycle with the Swedish Chamber orchestra. As on its two predecessors, the symphonies are interspersed with a couple of Schumann's overtures.

Northern Sinfonia’s main theme of the 2012-13 season is the ‘Romantic Symphony’, featuring the complete cycles of Brahms and Schumann symphonies. Here, music director Thomas Zehetmair provides a ...

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.

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 ...

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 second instalment of Sakari Oramo's survey of Schumann's symphonies, with the orchestra that he took over three years ago, doesn't quite live up to the promise of the first. The sense of freshness ...

Regular patrons of the San Francisco Symphony have known for the past few years that this set was coming, as Michael Tilson Thomas and the orchestra unveiled, one by one, live performances of the ...

Thank goodness Schumann discovered the manuscript of Schubert's "Great" C major symphony in the composer's estate in 1838; otherwise, it would have sunk without trace and we would not have Schumann's ...

Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Schønwandt, Conductor Robert Schumann, Composer Symphony No. 2 Robert Schumann, Composer Michael Schønwandt, Conductor ...