Schumann Complete Lieder, Volume 4

Graham Johnson | London Schubert Chorale | Oliver Widmer | Stella Doufexis | Stephen Layton

This, the fourth offering of Hyperion Schumann, deserves to be celebrated on various counts: its expert programme-making, the extreme sensitivity...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/2000

Schumann: Piano Works

Michel Dalberto

Though Dalberto has competition in the two bigger works in the Blumenstuck the CD field is all his own. Like...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1988

Schumann Symphonies Nos 1 and 4

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Armin Jordan | New Philharmonia Orchestra | Otto Klemperer | Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Suisse Romande Orchestra

An enjoyable, but ultimately undistinctive cycle from Jordan; Klemperer at both his inspired best and his infuriating worst; and the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1990

Schumann Fantasie; Kreisleriana

Hideyo Harada

Hideyo Harada is a prize-winning pianist trained in Japan, Germany and Russia who offers a Schumann recital showing the composer...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2010

Schumann Orchestral Works

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | James Levine

This is one of those discs where it is impossible to consider performance and recorded sound as separate entities. Levine's...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1993

Schumann/Schnittke Cello Concertos

Kurt Masur | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Natalia Gutman

Natalia Gutman is a Russian-born cellist, and pupil of Rostropovich, whose solo recordings—the two Shostakovich concertos for RCA (1/91) and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1992

Schumann Cello Concerto etc

Martha Argerich | Mischa Maisky | Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

In 1985 Mischa Maisky teamed up with Bernstein in the Schumann Cello Concerto. The result was a big-scale reading which...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Schubert Piano Sonatas

Clifford Curzon | Daniel Barenboim

Few English artists enjoyed a more long-lasting, reciprocal love affair with the Salzburg Festival than Clifford Curzon who, at the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1996

Schumann Piano Works

Maria João Pires

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SCHUMANN Symphonies 1 & 3

Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen | Paavo Järvi

A telling litmus test for performances of the Rhenish is the gently flowing, song-like third movement (marked simply Nicht schnell),...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2012