In our daily series Armchair Arts, a Telegraph critic offers expert analysis. Today, Ivan Hewett looks at a sensual Romantic masterpiece Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an ...

A decade separates Schumann's Papillons from the five pieces that make up his "carnival jest from Vienna" (Faschingsschwank aus Wien), the 10 years in which he composed most of his piano masterpieces.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Bravery was a keynote in composer Schumann’s mental health struggles and his amorous relationship with Clara Wieck. His illness and his ...

Imaginary Pictures is the title Kirill Gerstein gives his slightly unexpected pairing of Mussorgsky and Schumann. It's an odd choice for a disc that includes Pictures at an Exhibition – whose ...

In 2007, Pescia was responsible for the second volume of Claves's leisurely progress through Schumann's piano music, with recordings of Papillons, Davidsbündlertänze and Album for the Young. That set ...

Schumann Carnaval, Etudes Symphonique Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) (Warner Classics 2564 63426-2) £12.99 Recorded live in the perfect acoustic of the Konzerthaus, Vienna, these two contrasting ...

Though appearing on disc for the first time, these are not brand new Schumann recordings by Hamelin; the performance of Carnaval dates from 1999, the other works from three years later. Bringing them ...

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Stephen Johnson tries to uncover the mysteries of Schumann's piano suite Carnaval, a work containing many musical puzzles and allusions. Show more Robert Schumann would definitely be a cryptic ...

Be that as it may, Elisabeth Nielsen gives a forthright, tightly unified and slightly foursquare performance of the Beethoven. The fingerwork is clean but the insistent accentuations of down-beats ...

Robert Schumann would definitely be a cryptic crossword fan if he were alive today. With its subtitle 'Little Scenes on Four Notes', the piano suite Carnaval is full of musical puzzles and allusions, ...