(4) Doppelchörige Gesänge Robert Schumann, Composer Bo Holten, Conductor Flemish Radio Choir Inge Spinette, Piano (5) Romanzen und Balladen Flemish Radio Choir Robert Schumann, Composer Inge Spinette, ...

In this series, Classical 91.7's music librarian Chris Hathaway reviews new additions to our ever-growing CD library. This month, Chris reviews previously unpublished Cziffra, a stunning new recording ...

Even a top-class cast cannot hide the unevenness of Schumann’s at-times beautiful, strange choral work Though it’s been pretty well represented on disc, with Britten, Abbado and Harnoncourt among the ...

AT almost exactly the same time that Charles Hallé was beginning his new choral group for the cultured ladies (and some gentlemen) of Manchester, Robert Schumann was doing the same in Dresden. He was ...

It seems Das Paradies und die Peri is once again the most familiar of Schumann's choral works, as it was in the 19th century after the composer's death; the one most likely to be heard in concert or ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review | 'Faust' By Anthony Tommasini As a bookish young man born to a literary household, Schumann thought seriously of becoming a writer. In a ...

Apart from the evening-long Scenes from Faust and Paradise and the Peri, Schumann's choral works remain little known; and his late liturgical pieces, composed after he became director of the municipal ...

In which Schumann reinvented his own compositional language and created an alternative way of thinking about the symphony – despite the onset of the syphilis that was eventually to kill him Here's the ...

Even Schumann’s greatest admirers – and I’d count myself among them – would never claim that his choral music is the most significant or rewarding part of his output. But Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, ...