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 ...

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 ...

Schubert's 'Great' Symphony No 9 and Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor.

Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 – by ...

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 ...

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, ...

The first issue in Thomas Dausgard's Schumann cycle with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, containing the Second and Fourth Symphonies, was widely admired, and hearing their version of the First, it's ...

Better late than never. Strangely for someone who loves Beethoven and Schubert, Claudio Abbado has never recorded Schumann's symphonies. But now, to celebrate his 80th birthday, Abbado gives us the ...

The mid-19th century is still referred to as one of marking time for the symphony – when composers fought shy of the challenges posed by Beethoven, until Brahms rounded off the long genesis of his ...

At this point Rebecca Zabinski is used to being asked “Why Schumann?” Robert Schumann was not an especially popular composer neither during his lifetime nor, with a few notable exceptions ...