"This was real chamber music playing, with no sense of soloists coming together on an ad hoc basis," wrote The Guardian when Leif Ove Andenes performed Schumann piano trios in London. His... more

Clara Schumann the composer often worked in her husband' shadow, many of her songs being mistaken for his, although those best loved by the public flowed from her pen.

Chamber music occupies the largest part of Camillo Schumann' extensive compositional output, his admiration of Brahms, Liszt and Rachmaninov evident at every turn.

4 CDS: This set offers a broad selection of Schumann's piano masterpieces, with all of thequintessentially romatic collections of miniatures such as Papillons, Carnaval, Davidsbundlertanze,... more

Schumann was twenty-eight years old when he composed in 1838 a cycle of eight pieces for piano, the Novelletten (Novelettes) op.21. This impressive, highly virtuosic set was dedicated to the pianist... more