This is the first instalment of a new Schumann cycle from Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. It aims high, promising "the possibility of listening to this music in a different way", ...

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 ...

The 250th anniversary of Goethe's birthday fell on Saturday, and the Proms marked it not with one of the celebrated settings of his masterpiece Faust - by Berlioz, Gounod or Busoni - but with Schumann ...

Isabelle Faust’s heartfelt performance of the Violin Concerto was at the centre of an exquisite and convincing all-Schumann programme This was the second concert in John Eliot Gardiner and the London ...

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 ...

Music for the Faust drama? Goethe always proposed Mozart, albeit posthumously, but Schumann – despite nerves about composing music for what be called ‘one of the seminal and most widely acclaimed ...