"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 ...

David Zinman’s new budget-priced set of the Schumann symphonies goes a step beyond his 1989 recording of these works with the Baltimore Symphony (on Telarc). The new accounts are leaner, generally ...

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, ...

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, ...

This piece is the first symphony Schumann composed. He had attempted to compose symphonies before this work, but they were never completed. The nickname 'Spring' originates from the fact that in the ...

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 ...