In our daily series Armchair Arts, a Telegraph critic offers expert analysis. Today, Ivan Hewett looks at a sensual Romantic masterpiece Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an ...

Schumann Carnaval, Etudes Symphonique Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) (Warner Classics 2564 63426-2) £12.99 Recorded live in the perfect acoustic of the Konzerthaus, Vienna, these two contrasting ...

The latest release from the British pianist Daniel Grimwood explores music by Robert and Clara Schumann and Liszt, using an exquisite 1856 piano from Érard’s London factory. Now in the collection of ...

A decade separates Schumann's Papillons from the five pieces that make up his "carnival jest from Vienna" (Faschingsschwank aus Wien), the 10 years in which he composed most of his piano masterpieces.

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 ...

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Bravery was a keynote in composer Schumann’s mental health struggles and his amorous relationship with Clara Wieck. His illness and his identity were two sides of the same coin and had enormous ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It is these three pianists—Fanny Davies (1861-1934), Ilona Eibenschütz (1873-1967), and Adelina de Lara ...

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 ...

How many symphonies did Schumann compose? And how much of his music was orchestral? Discover Schumann's compositions grouped by musical category, and listen to some of his most famous music. Schumann ...

Two centuries after her birth, this tribute to Schumann is a muscular argument for her music, which is influenced more by Chopin than her husband Robert Clara Schumann was almost as precocious a ...