Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Bravery was a keynote in composer Schumann’s mental health struggles and his amorous relationship with Clara Wieck. His illness and his ...

Imaginary Pictures is the title Kirill Gerstein gives his slightly unexpected pairing of Mussorgsky and Schumann. It's an odd choice for a disc that includes Pictures at an Exhibition – whose ...

Schumann had written brilliant sets of character pieces before, but this one surpasses them in its sheer imaginative reach. Carnaval has the unpredictability and fantasy of a dreamworld, the music ...

In 2007, Pescia was responsible for the second volume of Claves's leisurely progress through Schumann's piano music, with recordings of Papillons, Davidsbündlertänze and Album for the Young. That set ...

Stephen Johnson tries to uncover the mysteries of Schumann's piano suite Carnaval, a work containing many musical puzzles and allusions. Show more Robert Schumann would definitely be a cryptic ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Anthony Tommasini Allan KozinnVivien Schweitzer and Steve Smith As the Schumann bicentennial year winds down, the classical music critics of The ...

Be that as it may, Elisabeth Nielsen gives a forthright, tightly unified and slightly foursquare performance of the Beethoven. The fingerwork is clean but the insistent accentuations of down-beats ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Schumann had always lived close to the edge. The psychiatrist Peter Ostwald has noted that even as a young teen, ...

Robert Schumann would definitely be a cryptic crossword fan if he were alive today. With its subtitle 'Little Scenes on Four Notes', the piano suite Carnaval is full of musical puzzles and allusions, ...