Intensity. There's no more appropriate word to describe Robert Schumann. Everything in his life seemed to be done with nothing less than total commitment, from his unrelenting pursuit of the love of ...

Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello Isabelle Faust, Violin Antoine Tamestit, Viola Jean-Guihen Queyras, Cello Alexander Melnikov, Piano Schumann’s was the first great piano quintet, an ...

Having scarcely ventured into chamber music writing before, Schumann suddenly composed three string quartets, a piano quartet and a piano quintet in one year: 1842. While the piano quartet has great ...

Not so long ago new recordings of Schumann's three string quartets were rare events, but this is at least the third set to appear this year. The discs mark the recording debut of the Gringolts Quartet ...

SCHUMANN'S Piano Quintet is one of the great warhorses of the Romantic repertoire. It is also a masterpiece of 19th-century chamber music and is, notwithstanding its funeral march, a work of enormous ...

The third concert in Music at Sharon, this year's festival in the numinous historic temple of the Children of Peace, north of Toronto, ended with a thrilling performance of Robert Schumann's great ...

Take a look at Schumann’s 78-key piano, a new invention at the time, and then listen to Dr. Richard Kogan, violinist Scott Yoo and more perform Schumann’s piano quintet. How Other Composers Changed ...

Our summer celebration of the many ways music brings together our shared voices—a confluence of history, culture, past, present, and future—concludes with three exultant jewels of the chamber music ...

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 ...

Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello Alexander Melnikov, Piano Robert Schumann, Composer Jerusalem Quartet Quintet for Piano and Strings Alexander Melnikov, Piano Robert Schumann, Composer ...

Early critics called it "tormented" and "unmusical." But opinions have changed a bit since then — it's now considered one of the greatest pieces of chamber music ever written. We'll hear a performance ...

Stephen Johnson visits the Mananan Festival at the Erin Arts Centre on the Isle of Man. There he is joined by The Elias Quartet and pianist, Simon Crawford-Phillips for a detailed breakdown of one of ...