Robert Schumann: Symphony #2
As an amateur violinist I was a member of several orchestras that included the Minneapolis Civic Orchestra and the San Jose Symphony. There is no better way to become connected to a wonderful composition than …
Robert Schumann Archive
Yuja Wang Plays Schumann’s “The Smuggler”
The smuggler (Der Kontrabandiste) is a piece from Robert Schumann’s Spanisches Liederspiel op. 74. The transcription for piano solo was done by Carl Tausig, a Polish composer, pianist and arranger considered by some critics to …
Tabea Zimmermann Plays Schumann
Robert Schumann composed his Märchenbilder, (Fairytale Pictures) while Schumann was in residence at Düsseldorf as Director of Music. This masterwork shows the composer in the idiom he knew best: a series of meticulously crafted and highly …
Gautier Capucon and Yuja Wang Perform for You
I had planned for you today a wonderful program of Romantic music by Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Edvard Grieg. In particular the Grieg brings out the folk tunes of Norway as part of the composer’s …
Jansons Conducts Schumann and Schubert
The two orchestral works on this new CD reflect early experiments with the symphonic form by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, who would both later become such important Romantic composers. In his Third Symphony in …