Robert Schumann
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Martin Kettle
25, Nov, 2020 @1:36 PM
Stille Liebe: Lieder by Robert Schumann review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
Hasselhorn’s rich, dark baritone captures Schumann’s extraordinary extremes of light and darkness and Middleton is a discerning accompanist
Andrew Clements
17, Sep, 2020 @2:00 PM
Allan Clayton / James Baillieu review – his voice soared through top notes gloriously
The repertoire choices might have felt safe, but tenor Clayton and pianist Baillieu showed that safe doesn’t have to mean comfortable
Erica Jeal
19, Jun, 2020 @4:54 PM
Schumann: Myrthen review – warm and poetic songs for a wedding | Andrew Clements' classical album of the week
Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber and Camilla Tilling deliver bright and varied recordings of songs the composer wrote for his wife
Andrew Clements
24, Oct, 2019 @2:00 PM
Zauberland review – after horrors, a feeling of 'so what' remains
Crimp, Foccroulle, Mitchell and Schumann combine their considerable forces to tell a shocking story, inspired by the Syrian conflict, that fails to have the impact it should
Andrew Clements
16, Oct, 2019 @4:00 PM
Clara Schumann was the Beyoncé of her day | Isata Kanneh-Mason
I’ve spent the last year getting to know this neglected composer. I’ve visited her home, and now, on the 200th anniversary of her birth, I will be playing her music on her own piano
Isata Kanneh-Mason
12, Sep, 2019 @3:19 PM
Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
Two centuries after her birth, this tribute to Schumann is a muscular argument for her music, which is influenced more by Chopin than her husband Robert
Andrew Clements
11, Jul, 2019 @2:00 PM
Schumann: The Symphonies review – bombast and revelation | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
The Staatskapelle’s sumptuous playing is hard to fault, but conductor Thielemann is too overblown at times
Andrew Clements
18, Apr, 2019 @2:00 PM
Schumann: Frage CD review – Gerhaher launches epic project with verve
Schumann brings out the best in baritone Christian Gerhaher on this striking recording with pianist Gerold Huber
Andrew Clements
29, Nov, 2018 @3:00 PM
Bertrand Chamayou review – a formidable Lisztian
The most demanding of the composer’s keyboard works was a bold second-half choice, but Chamayou was up to it
Andrew Clements
05, Apr, 2018 @10:06 AM
LSO/Gardiner/Faust review – alert to Schumann's volatility and rigour
Isabelle Faust’s heartfelt performance of the Violin Concerto was at the centre of an exquisite and convincing all-Schumann programme
Tim Ashley
19, Mar, 2018 @2:03 PM
Schumann Street review – rap, banjo, soul-folk, viol and saw transform Dichterliebe
This captivating and quirkily brilliant Schumann song crawl takes its audience to private parlours and kitchens in the Huguenot houses of east London
Erica Jeal
10, Dec, 2017 @2:50 PM
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