Robert Schumann archive
Listen Schumann's Piano Quintet In E-flat, In Concert WGBH
June 8, 2010 РAndr̩ Laplante and string quartet Quatuor Claudel-Canimex celebrate the composer's bicentennial. WGBH
Listen Robert Schumann's Childhood Dreams
June 8, 2010 – The composer's intimate "Träumerei" stakes everything on one moment of epiphany, beautifully set up.
Listen Joyce Yang: Inside The Psyche Of Schumann APM
June 8, 2010 – The young pianist explores the warring sides of Schumann's mind with this studio performance. APM
Listen Robert Schumann: A Romantic Hero
June 8, 2010 – Commentator Miles Hoffman takes the measure of the composer's music 200 years after his birth.
Read The Life And Music Of Robert Schumann
June 7, 2010 – Learn about the passionately creative but troubled life of Schumann and hear some of his best music.
Listen Remembering Pianist Earl Wild
January 27, 2010 – The acclaimed American pianist and composer died Saturday after an eight-decade career. He was 94.
Listen WGBH
July 30, 2009 – The young Israeli pianist digs deep into the tangled mind and music of Robert Schumann at WGBH. WGBH
Read Cliburn Competition Awards Two Gold Medals
June 7, 2009 – Hear the Gold Medalists at the Cliburn Competition, held every four years in Fort Worth, Texas.
Listen Robert Schumann: Music Amid The Madness
June 21, 2008 – Conductor Marin Alsop muses on her fascination with music by the mentally unstable Robert Schumann.
Listen Robert Schumann Reconsidered at Carnegie Hall WNYC
June 17, 2008 – The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays two revamped works by Schumann in concert. WNYC
Listen Piano Pathways: Daniel Pollack, 50 Years Later
January 12, 2008 – The pianist talks about playing at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and his subsequent career.
Listen Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Concert
February 9, 2007 – The French pianist presents his nuanced and atmospheric interpretations of Ravel and Schumann.
Listen Guiding the N.Y. Philharmonic's 'Inner Voice'
January 15, 2007 – Cynthia Phelps says violas play a "subtle but exciting" role in the texture and feel of the music.
Listen Lang Lang in Studio 4-A
June 1, 2006 – From Schumann's piano suite called "Scenes from Childhood," Lang Lang plays "Dreaming."