Robert Schumann

The Philadelphians In Concert on WRTI 90.1: Yannick Conducts Weber, Schumann, and Beethoven

By • Mar 23, 2020
Benjamin Ealovega

On Friday, March 27th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert re-broadcast from 2019 brings pianist Jonathan Biss to the stage, for a performance of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, a work that transports the piano concerto into the realm of symphonic music. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.

Classical Album of the Week: Pianist Lara Downes Honors Clara Schumann's Life and Work

By • Mar 9, 2020

March 9, 2020. In For Love of You, pianist Lara Downes pays homage to the 19th-century pianist and composer Clara Wieck Schumann, playing solo piano works created by both Clara and Robert Schumann during a forbidden love affair before they eventually married.  

My Experience Playing Schumann with Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Was Magical!

By • May 16, 2019

Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor is one of my all-time favorite pieces. It’s passionate, lyrical, intimate, and joyous. The opening melody alone, which Robert based on his wife Clara’s name, is “from another world,” as André Watts once said.

Classical Album of the Week: Romantic Works for Cello and Piano

By • Aug 13, 2018

August 13, 2018.  On their new album, Israeli-American cellist Inbal Segev and Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen combine their artistry in three ultra-Romantic works. Released this summer, Chopin, Schumann and Grieg features their interpretation of sonatas by Chopin and Grieg, and Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Op. 73.

Classical Album of the Week: Two Live Performances by Pianist Alfred Brendel

By Jack Moore • Aug 1, 2018

August 1, 2018.  It’s not new by any stretch, but it is new to us.  Alfred Brendel Live in Vienna is actually quite a find for lovers of this great pianist. Brendel has been making recordings for half a century, and yet there is still much we haven’t heard. 

Listen: Pianist Henry Kramer LIVE from the WRTI Performance Studio

By • Mar 8, 2018
Kaupo Kikkas

Listen to a live performance, recorded on Friday, March 9, featuring the young American pianist Henry Kramer performing works by Robert Schumann and Maurice Ravel. A Maine native, Henry’s playing has been lauded as “triumphant” and “thrilling” by The New York Times. 

A Sumptuous Slow Movement with a Mysterious Past Now Soars Solo

By Susan Lewis • Jun 12, 2017

Symphonies and concertos are composed to be performed in their entirety, but sometimes individual movements take on lives of their own. WRTI’s Susan Lewis considers the slow movement of Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto with violinist Joshua Bell.

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on WRTI: Farewell to Vienna, Sept. 11 at 1 PM

By • Sep 6, 2016

Three richly orchestrated works on this Sunday’s Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert re-broadcast complete the series of concerts from last January celebrating the music of Vienna.

Robert and Clara: Their Forbidden Love Kept Alive with Music

By • Feb 12, 2016

When the young Robert Schumann fell in love with his piano teacher’s daughter, Clara, her father was not pleased and tried to keep them apart. How did they keep their passion alive? WRTI’s Susan Lewis has more.  


American Audiences Missing Out On Many Great Performers

By Jim Cotter • Sep 1, 2014

Over the past decade or so, it has become increasingly difficult for overseas musicians without well-established reputations in the U.S. to get permission to travel here for work. However, as WRTI's Jim Cotter reports, when a powerhouse such as The Philadelphia Orchestra wants a particular soloist, they usually get their man, or woman.

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