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, ...

I want to pick up a strand that emerged here two weeks ago in another context and develop it a wee bit, because it concerns an extraordinary story in classical music. It relates to a new recording of ...

The renowned Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer appears Oct. 12 and 14 with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra to perform Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto, a piece of music haunted by a bizarre history of ...

Received wisdom has it that Schumann’s late works fall off creatively, mirroring the composer’s failing mental health. These period instrument performances think differently. I’ve never heard quite ...

The Gonzaga Symphony Orchestra and guest violinist Midori were reviewed Thursday night at Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox. Kevin Hekmatpanah, music professor at Gonzaga University and director of ...

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Conductor Klaus Mäkelä, right, and pianist Yunchan Lim during a concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 18, 2025.

In today’s large concert-halls a pianist playing on a period instrument is liable to be reduced to a faint tinkling in the distance. On disc it is another matter: Alexander Melnikov shows how ...

The composer Robert Schumann suffered increasingly from mental illness, until his institutionalized death at 46. Speculation as to causes ranges from a brain tumor to poisonous effects of a mercury ...

This is the second instalment of a period-instruments series pairing Schumann’s concertos and piano trios. Alexander Melnikov plays an 1837 Erard in the Piano Concerto, an 1847 Streicher in the Trio ...