It is our loss that the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Schumann should pass so little noticed. That may be because his music lacks the “show” and easy charm of his Romantic contemporaries.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Schumann wrote only two works for violin and orchestra, the third here being his arrangement for violin of the Cello ...

Carolin Widmann (violin), Dénes Várjon (piano) ECM New Series 476 6744 *****:The first of Schumann's three violin sonatas gets the lion's share of attention while the third hardly gets any at all.

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 ...

Yehudi Menuhin saw Schumann’s D minor Violin Concerto of 1853 as a missing link between Beethoven and Brahms. The reason it had been missing was that the great Hungarian virtuoso Joseph Joachim, whose ...

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 ...

Classical music meets Halloween and the paranormal Thursday night when the National Symphony Orchestra plays the Schumann Violin Concerto, a work buried for nearly a century and recovered — or so the ...

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 ...

Alas, the rigour it brings to the big tuttis in the first movement make them sound more like interpolations in some 18th-century drama rather than a 19th-century concerto, although the orchestra does ...

There cannot be many more bizarre stories than the one about the only violin concerto that Robert Schumann ever wrote. An exceptional tunesmith, he began composing for the piano, branched into song ...