"The symphony has given me so many hours of bliss," Schumann wrote in his diary. "I thank my guardian angel for letting me finish this large work with such ease." This audio is not downloadable due to ...

“From this listener’s perspective it is as perfect a symphony as exists — by anyone. Intellectually compelling, emotionally searing, kinetically irresistible, gorgeous in detail and large sweep, and a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

This recording, from performances at the Barbican Hall, London, captures the verve and spontaneity of live performance, further enhancing the vividness of expression. This CD features Schumann’s ...

Robert Schumann composed his D minor Symphony in 1841, but following its unsuccessful premiere and his failure to get it published he laid it aside for a full ten years, before deciding to revise it.

No complaints about clichéd couplings here. Schumann’s much-recorded Second Symphony is enterprisingly paired with what survives of Ravel’s orchestration of Carnaval, made for a Nijinsky ballet in ...

On its face, this 2019 release by John Eliot Gardiner and the London Symphony Orchestra seems fairly straightforward and standard, with an overture at the opening and two symphonies by the great ...

Overture, Scherzo and Finale Robert Schumann, Composer Robert Schumann Philharmonie Frank Beermann, Conductor Manfred, Movements: Overture Robert Schumann, Composer Robert Schumann Philharmonie Frank ...

Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' Robert Schumann, Composer Swedish Chamber Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor (Die) Braut von Messina Robert Schumann, Composer Swedish Chamber Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, ...

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 ...