Schumann Archive

Several years ago, in 2017, I created my first post about pianist Elena Fischer-Dieskau. You can read that first post here: https://myclassicalnotes.com/2017/10/introducing-elena-fischer-dieskau-pianist/ Today I am writing again about Ms. Fischer-Dieskau, because her new CD has …

Korean-born pianist Yeol Eum Son has succeeded not only in the institutional worlds of competition prizes and concert bookings, but also in the populist arena of YouTube, where her performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. …

Robert Schumann wrote his Fantasy pieces Op. 73 originally for clarinet and piano. However, the first edition of Schumann’s Fantasy Pieces Op. 73 published in July 1849 contained not only a clarinet part but also …

Violist Amihai Grosz works with artists such as Yefim Bronfman, Emmanuel Pahud, Mitsuko Uchida, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin and others. After 10 years of professional work, 2010 marked the start of something new for Amihai …

The Piano Concerto in A-Minor by Robert Schumann was premiered in Dresden Germany on December 4, 1845. The work was written for—and premiered by—Clara Wieck Schumann, his wife, who was considered to be one of the …