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 ...

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For his much-anticipated TSO début, the Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival presents a meaty programme of excellent pieces, from Schumann’s urgent ...

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Schumann's Symphony No. 4 in D minor was first completed in 1841 and then heavily revised in 1851. The composer's widow, Clara, later claimed that the first version had just been a sketch which was ...

But those concerts also guaranteed that the ones a year later would be the most vital tonic imaginable for grey, damp early February. And so it proved with the joybursts of the Third (“Rhenish”) and, ...

Schumann is a composer whose symphonies don’t always sound happy in their skin. Or, at least, not in their orchestration, which has been much criticised over the years for its instrumental doublings ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Changed times: it seems only yesterday that the Berlin Philharmonic was Deutsche Grammophon’s in-house orchestra.

Seattle Symphony A premiere by Sebastian Currier, plus Grieg and Schumann. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle, WA 98101 $20 and up Thursday, April 23, 2015, 7:30pm Simone Dinnerstein Seattle ...

On Saturday 6 October, works by Beethoven and Schumann will be performed by the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hisham Gabr On Saturday, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra will perform Beethoven's ...