The renowned Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer appears Oct. 12 and 14 with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra to perform Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto, a piece of music haunted by a bizarre history of ...

I want to pick up a strand that emerged here two weeks ago in another context and develop it a wee bit, because it concerns an extraordinary story in classical music. It relates to a new recording of ...

The Gonzaga Symphony Orchestra and guest violinist Midori were reviewed Thursday night at Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox. Kevin Hekmatpanah, music professor at Gonzaga University and director of ...

Robert Schumann had enjoyed great success as a composer, but by 1853 he was chronically depressed, attempted suicide, and was subsequently placed in a mental asylum, where he died three years later at ...

Her daughter calls her, in a recent documentary, a goddess. And the audience at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday night was not about to disagree when Martha Argerich walked on stage to play ...

Received wisdom has it that Schumann’s late works fall off creatively, mirroring the composer’s failing mental health. These period instrument performances think differently. I’ve never heard quite ...

There cannot be many more bizarre stories than the one about the only violin concerto that Robert Schumann ever wrote. An exceptional tunesmith, he began composing for the piano, branched into song ...

In today’s large concert-halls a pianist playing on a period instrument is liable to be reduced to a faint tinkling in the distance. On disc it is another matter: Alexander Melnikov shows how ...

The composer Robert Schumann suffered increasingly from mental illness, until his institutionalized death at 46. Speculation as to causes ranges from a brain tumor to poisonous effects of a mercury ...

This is the second instalment of a period-instruments series pairing Schumann’s concertos and piano trios. Alexander Melnikov plays an 1837 Erard in the Piano Concerto, an 1847 Streicher in the Trio ...