Clara Schumann’s Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann is more than just a dazzling set of piano variations—it’s a love letter in music. She took a theme from Robert’s Bunte Blätter and transformed ...

Perhaps surmising that Schumann was an unstable character, Friedrich Wieck violently opposed the relationship between Robert and Clara, and his actions over the following seven years won him a place ...

Clarinettist Julian Bliss and pianist James Baillieu team up for a second time to perform the music of Clara and Robert ...

At intermission, after the Schumann, musician friends expressed great enthusiasm for Grimaud’s performance. The virtuosity ...

Robert Schumann on a litograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1839 Others still speak of a special understanding between the two, although we do not know what Chopin thought about Schumann's music. Schumann ...

After intermission, came a previously unannounced addition, Clara Schumann’s Three Romances, Op. 22. Stepping away from the chasing and competing in the sonatas, her fresh voice added a calm ...

At this time, the work of German poets, such as Goethe, were often set to music. Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms all composed lieder. Common poetic themes are love, longing and ...