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Clara Schumann. Portrait by Granger [who also painted Beethoven] It's a source of surprise and delight that the single biggest anni...

Very excited to be heading tomorrow to Great Malvern to do a pre-concert talk about the Schumann Violin Concerto with conductor Ken Woods – ...

Schumann Street: love, loss, recovery Photo: Spitalfields Music If you're heading east in London this weekend, don't miss a wh...

Serendipity! The London Philharmonic is playing the Schumann Violin Concerto at the Royal Festival Hall on 8 November (soloist: Patricia Kop...

It's Schumann's birthday. Here is Steven Isserlis, one of today's greatest Schumannians, in his Cello Concerto. The composer f...

Back on stage!  The one problem with recitals by Jonas Kaufmann is the absolute scrum at the ladies' loos. The Barbican's facil...

Steven Isserlis is one of those infuriating musicians who writes as well as he plays. His latest book is just out and it is a revisiting of ...

Darguerrotype of Schumann c1850. (source: Wikipedia) Today is the 160th anniversary of Robert Schumann's death. This is the house...

Radio silence here attributable to book. It's going back to the editor on Tuesday, but I am going to Vienna tomorrow and the two things ...

You may have wondered why I've been posting clips of late Schumann and asking you to have a special listen. Now I can reveal all... ...

This is the Geistervariationen - literally, 'Ghost Variations' - by Robert Schumann, written at the end of his compositional life ...

Yesterday I interviewed a wonderful composer. I love interviewing composers. You can't get closer to the source of the art we love than...