Schumann was one of the prime figures in musical romanticism, and his songs set words of poets similarly concerned with ...

Robert Schumann wrote his Waldszenen in 1848 and ... in recent recordings made at the BBC studios, including a sublime song by Nadia Boulanger. CPE Bach: Sonata In G Major Wq.

Robert was his fifth child and ... The great Piano Concerto was composed here, the Second Symphony, more songs, but from the late 1840s it was clear that Schumann was becoming increasingly unstable.

Schumann’s sole completed piano concerto remains among his best-loved works. Jed Distler listens to a selection of the prominent pianists who have contributed to the concerto’s substantial discography ...