Robert Schumann's life was a roller coaster of success and plight. See how his music mirros his personal life during the Houston Symphony's Schumann Festival: Angels and Demons. Credit: Photo from ...

Known for her fresh interpretations and for performing barefoot, European violin sensation Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Robert Schumann’s brooding, beautiful Violin Concerto. Initially suppressed by ...

In the rear-view mirror, the Houston Symphony’s Schumann Festival turned out to be as much about the orchestra as the composer. Perhaps that’s no great revelation, but it was an inspired choice all ...

The Houston Symphony’s Schumann Festival notwithstanding, it’s a miracle Robert Schumann isn’t better-known already. Hollywood has already given us the 1947 film “Song of Love,” starring Katharine ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. To kick off the Festival, Houston Symphony Associate Principal Viola Joan ...

Robert Schumann thought of his fourth symphony as a symphonic fantasy, not a classical symphony. He wanted all four movements to be performed without pauses to focus on the work as a whole — and to ...

The combination of Michael Tilson Thomas, the San Francisco Symphony and the symphonies of Robert Schumann is shaping up to be a dazzling partnership, marked by robust instrumental playing and canny ...

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s inaugural artist-in-residence, Orli Shaham, will perform Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in concerts at Skyview High School this weekend. The “Messa di Gloria” for ...

In 1853, a few short years before succumbing to madness and a tragic early death, Schumann wrote a violin concerto for the brilliant young virtuoso Joseph Joachim. It was not a success. That actually ...