As the house lights dimmed at Ben’s Theater and the audience fell silent, the first luminous notes from the piano brought a ...

Jane Jones introduces the concerto that was saved for posterity by a virtuoso wife! One of the most talked about partnerships in classical music must be that between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, ...

The next woman in our line of female composers is Clara Schumann. She might be the most famous of the early women pioneers in classical music. Nannerl Mozart was not allowed to play in public after a ...

Clara Wieck was a musical prodigy. Her mother Marianne was a singer; her overbearing father, Friedrich, a music teacher. She went on to marry one of the greatest composers in history, Robert Schumann, ...

Robert Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale, op. 52 (with additional movement, Childhood Dreams, composed in the style of Schumann by Paul Chihara) One of the cliché criticisms of Robert Schumann is ...

Visit Scotland, Germany and France with host Scott Yoo. Visit Scotland, Germany and France with host Scott Yoo as he investigates the connection between Robert Schumann’s bipolar disorder and creative ...

Susie Park returns to perform with ProMusica Minnesota in a couple of piano quintets considered among the “Big 3” of the classical repertoire, said ProMusica Executive Director Bethel Balge. And to ...

From the J.S. Bach keyboard works of the Baroque era to Bartók’s note-splitting masterpiece of the 20th century, here are some of the greatest piano concertos ever to have been written. Piano ...

Despite his love of the cello Schumann left little music for it, but there are abundant arrangements of pieces he wrote for other instruments. This disc demonstrates how “at home” Schumann sounds on ...