The four symphonies of Robert Schumann (1810-1856) have endured more than their fair share of criticism, neglect, and mishandling over the years, particularly compared with the hallowed treatment… By ...

Regular patrons of the San Francisco Symphony have known for the past few years that this set was coming, as Michael Tilson Thomas and the orchestra unveiled, one by one, live performances of the ...

A tortured Romantic genius — destined to die young — celebrates the beauty of nature and the majesty of a medieval cathedral. Robert and Clara Schumann arrived in the Rhineland city of Dusseldorf on 2 ...

There are no special T-shirts on sale as swag for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Schumann Focus” festival, the way there have been for Gustavo Dudamel’s Beethoven and Mahler symphony cycles at Walt ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

You had to be at least a bit surprised when the Berlin Philharmonic launched its own record label. The orchestra had already taken a much more daring step with the 2008 launch of its Digital Concert ...

From historically informed accounts to the most unreconstructed modern symphony-orchestra performances, there's no shortage of fine sets of Schumann's four symphonies already on disc. Where Yannick ...

Taking a cue from other renowned orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic has recently launched its own label. The move offers greater autonomy to the orchestra over handling its recordings in an industry ...

This year the three brass SSO fellowships have gone to women(Dukas Ju/flickr.com/CC-BY-NC-2.0) The world was looking very bright indeed for a 30-year-old Robert ...

If you play these two Schumann symphonies in reverse order, beginning with the third (the Rhenish) then your first impression of this disc will be very different. Philippe Herreweghe's account of that ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Changed times: it seems only yesterday that the Berlin Philharmonic was Deutsche Grammophon’s in-house orchestra.