Schumann

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Robert Schumann’s Advice to Young Musicians – revisited by Steven Isserlis
Robert Schumann’s Advice to Young Musicians was originally written in 1848 to accompany his famous, and still very popular, Album for the Young, a suite of piano pieces for children and students. Schumann was a remarkable, forward-looking man, not least
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Minors of the Majors
Robert Schumann:
Introduction and Concert Allegro, Op. 134
“Minors of the Majors” invites you to discover compositions by the great classical composers that for one reason or another have not reached the musical mainstream. Please enjoy, and keep listening!
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Muses and Musings
That American Woman! Robert Schumann and Mary Potts-Perkins
On 14 October 1850, Robert and Clara Schumann played host to Mary Potts and her husband John Perkins in Düsseldorf. The visiting couple had married in New York just months early, and was looking to spend their honeymoon in Europe.
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Minors of the Majors
Robert Schumann: (New Year’s Song), Album for the Young Op. 68, No. 43
“Minors of the Majors” invites you to discover compositions by the great classical composers that for one reason or another have not reached the musical mainstream. Please enjoy, and keep listening! Robert and Clara Schumann had eight children, all born
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Schumann: Violin Concerto
Piano Trio No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 110: III. Rasch From Schumann: Violin Concerto (2015) Released by Harmonia Mundi Schumann: Piano Trio No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 110: III. RaschThis first volume in a trilogy comprising the complete
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Robert Schumann: Paradise and the Peri, Op. 50
When Robert Schumann premiered his secular oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50 (Paradise and the Peri) in December 1843 in Leipzig, the composer was instantly catapulted from provincial to international fame. In the first decade after the composition,
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SCHUMANN, R.: Carnaval / Davidsbündlertänze / Papillons (Giltburg)
Davidsbundlertanze, Op. 6 No. 18. Nicht schnell From SCHUMANN, R.: Carnaval / Davidsbündlertänze / Papillons (Giltburg) (2015) Released by Naxos Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze, Op. 6 – No. 18. Nicht schnellThe three works on this recording are collections of short pieces, strung
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Florestan and Eusebius
Robert Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121
Robert Schumann composed in intense spurts of creative hyperactivity, generally focusing on a single genre. When he locked himself into his Düsseldorf study in October 1851, Clara Schumann excitedly reported in her diary. “Robert is working away on something new.
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