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, ...
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 ...
Thank goodness Schumann discovered the manuscript of Schubert's "Great" C major symphony in the composer's estate in 1838; otherwise, it would have sunk without trace and we would not have Schumann's ...
Musick for His Majesty's Cornetts and Sackbutts London Symphony Orchestra Matthew Locke, Composer István Kertész, Conductor Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' London Symphony Orchestra István Kertész, Conductor ...
This year the three brass SSO fellowships have gone to women(Dukas Ju/flickr.com/CC-BY-NC-2.0) The world was looking very bright indeed for a 30-year-old Robert ...
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 ...
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, ...