Composer

Friendship and common bonds of artistic curiosity and empathy unite the outstandingly fine players of Trio Zadig. The Paris-based ensemble, who recently received a coveted five-star review from Diapason magazine for its Mendelssohn Legacy album, opens with an impassioned miniature by Lili Boulanger before traversing two mighty four-movement works from the 1840s, Robert Schumann’s intensely romantic Piano Trio No. 1 and Felix Mendelssohn’s dramatic Piano Trio in C minor.

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Trio Zadig

Wigmore Hall

The globally recognized pianist Jonathan Biss was praised by The New Yorker for his “impeccable taste and a formidable technique.” A multi-faceted artist, he is equally celebrated for his performance career, his pedagogical contributions, and his eloquent and insightful musical scholarship.

Jonathan Biss, piano

Tippet Rise Art Center

“An artist of extraordinary magnetism” (Daily Telegraph), Yorkshire pianist Sarah Beth Briggs has enjoyed a distinguished career both on stage and in the recording studio. She returns to the Playhouse for an afternoon of glittering piano favourites.

Piano Classics

Sheffield Theatres

Once again four critics of the German Record Critics’ Award (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, PdSK), moderated by Olaf Wilhelmer, will speak about a central work of music history: Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D minor.

Quartett der Kritiker

Berliner Philharmonie

“I have been hearing drums and trumpets in my head for days”, Robert Schumann wrote to his friend Felix Mendelssohn in 1845. Here Schumann was describing not only his emotional state, but also the musical ideas leading him towards the composition of his Symphony No. 2. The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle combines this impressive multi-layered work with Schumann’s Violin Concerto which was never performed during the composer’s lifetime. Performing on historical instruments, the ensemble and soloist Isabelle Faust approach Schumann’s emotionally complex tonal world, laying bare the roots of this brilliant composer of the Romantic period.

Freiburger Barockorchester

Berliner Philharmoniker

“I had hoped I wouldn’t fall in love with another orchestra, but in fact I did,” sighs Sir Simon Rattle. And who is the mysterious new love? The Freiburger Barockorchester. Their Schumann evening in Lucerne reveals exactly what this newfound happiness sounds like. The orchestra plays with clarity and lightness, in shimmering colors yet firmly grounded. The program opens with the highly romantic overture to Schumann’s only opera, Genoveva. Isabelle Faust — whose violin sound is so human and communicative, and whose phrasing is unmatched in its delicacy — then performs the Violin Concerto. Schumann wrote it shortly before his mental collapse, and it did not receive its world premiere until 81 years after his death. “It’s music that moves you deeply,” Faust says. The same is certainly true of the Second Symphony, which many consider Schumann’s finest. Its unearthly beautiful slow movement has something of a prayer of thanksgiving about it: Schumann continually unfolds an enthralling melody, letting it rise and expand until it seems to glow — ten minutes of eternity.

Freiburger Barockorchester | Sir Simon Rattle | Isabelle Faust

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

The jury was unanimous: the 2025 Music Prize of the German Economy goes to the young baritone Jonas Müller! Born in Lower Bavaria in 1999, Müller could celebrate not only the € 15,000 award but also his debut concert at Lucerne Festival. He impressed with an intelligent program that, as the jury noted, was “marked by authenticity and seriousness.” He follows the same principle in his Lucerne recital. Under the theme “Somewhere in the World,” he sings of longing for faraway places and for home, of dreams of love and of solitude — with settings by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler and Hanns Eisler. From Eisler, he performs six songs from the Hollywood Songbook: his contribution to this summer’s theme, “American Dreams.” Jonas Müller has already won numerous prizes, including as a duo with his piano partner Anna Gebhardt. Since the fall of 2025, the student of Christian Gerhaher has been a member of the Opera Studio of Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut as Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praised him for “vocal elegance and a fine touch of comedy.”

Jonas Müller | Anna Gebhardt

Lukaskirche Lucerne

The American Chamber Music Society is deeply invested in inspiring and connecting with our local community. As one of the most intimate classical music experiences in Chicago, it is our honor to enrich our culture by performing repertoire ranging from centuries ago to the present, providing a variety of educational opportunities and offering tickets at a discounted price. There is nothing like sitting a few feet away from the best musicians in the world, especially when many of them are from your home town. I am confident the diverse and innovative programming of our events will leave you moved, exhilarated, and eager to return.

AMERICAN CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY with REED TETZLOFF, piano

Maverick Concert Hall

For our one-and-only Thursday evening concert of the summer, violinist Chad Hoopes returns to play one of Mozart’s most remarkable chamber music works—the String Quintet in C Major, K. 515, which includes an additional viola (an instrument Mozart loved to play and to write for)—and pianist Juho Pohjonen plays Schumann’s highly Romantic Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, written in 1842, the composer’s much-celebrated “year of chamber music.” Plus, violinist John Storgårds and cellist Anssi Karttunen play stunning solo works written for them by influential contemporary composers Kaija Saariaho and Bent Sørensen.

Mozart & Schumann

Lensic Performing Arts Center

A rare meeting of two legends: Daniel Barenboim and Yo-Yo Ma have shaped musical history over the past half-century. But there is more that binds them. Both regard music as the most powerful path to mutual understanding and have long been committed to intercultural dialogue. With his Silk Road Project, Yo-Yo Ma built a bridge from Asia to the West and continues to transcend boundaries between genres and cultures in his latest projects in order to foster social cohesion. Since 1999 Barenboim has kept the vision of reconciliation alive through the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, made up largely of Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab musicians — a vision that resonates all the more in our conflict-ridden time.

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Yo-Yo Ma

One of the world’s leading concert pianists, Angela Hewitt appears in recital and as soloist with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Asia. Her interpretations of the music of J.S. Bach have established her as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters of our time.

ANGELA HEWITT, piano

Dreams of Childhood: The Musical Reflections of a New Father

Lincoln City Cultural Center

High Festival Level

Imperial Baths

Pianist Haochen Zhang, who won the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at the age of 19 and has been described as “an artist of rare talent” by Gramophone, gives a solo recital featuring two emotional piano sonatas: Schumann’s first, a deeply personal work that the composer dedicated to his future wife, Clara Wieck, and Beethoven’s next-to-last, which the French composer Vincent d’Indy described as “an exertion of will to banish suffering.”

Haochen Zhang Piano Recital

New Mexico Museum of Art

The relationships between Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms were intimate and complicated – and they shaped the trajectory of classical music forever. In an exploration of friendship and inspiration, Brahms’ fiery Hungarian Rhapsodies are followed by Clara Schumann’s tender Piano Concerto with Robert Schumann’s soaring Symphony No. 2 capping off this trio of musical genius.

Brahms & The Schumanns

Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts

Light and dark battle it out in Schumann’s Second Symphony, composed during a time of great personal crisis but still bubbling with humor and good spirits. Conductor Kazuki Yamada pairs this with Stravinsky’s stunningly imaginative settings of biblical Psalms, sung by the Blossom Festival Chorus. Inspired by Aboriginal myths, Takemitsu’s Dreamtime opens the program on a reflective note perfect for a summer evening.

Schumann’s Second Symphony

Blossom Music Center

We are very grateful to Rustem Hayroudinoff for stepping in to perform this recital in place of Richard Goode, who has had to withdraw due to personal reasons.

Rustem Hayroudinoff

Wadham College

The Heath Quartet, formed at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2002, has enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with Wigmore Hall and built a devoted following thanks to performances that make creative sparks fly. Its latest programme takes wing with Britten’s 3 Divertimenti, conceived in 1936 as part of Go play, boy, play, a projected suite of character portraits depicting old school chums, and flourishes in two contrasting quartets by Mozart and Robert Schumann.

Heath Quartet

The Perelada Festival welcomes the return of Bryn Terfel, one of the great voices of our time, in a recital that is presented as a living synthesis of his artistic journey. With a career that extends over almost four decades, the Welsh bass-baritone has built an interpretative universe that embraces from Mozart to Wagner, from the Romantic Lied to the traditional song, always with the same expressive conviction and deep respect for the musical material.

Bryn Terfel

Església del Carme

Strahinja Mitrović made history in 2024 when he became the first double bassist to win the Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s illustrious Gold Medal since its inception 109 years earlier, following in the footsteps of, among others, Jacqueline Du Pré, Sir Bryn Terfel and Maxim Rysanov. The Serbian musician, whose artistry was lauded with a five-star review by The Arts Desk and acclaimed for its ‘stunning originality’, also won the Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize, enabling him to make his Wigmore solo debut this evening.

Strahinja Mitrović double bass; Chloé Dumoulin piano

Formed by alumni of the National Repertory Orchestra, this quartet brings together musicians whose shared roots at the NRO have evolved into dynamic professional careers. In this program, they draw from American narratives that play a critical role in the ongoing evolution of our nation’s history and musical character. Through works that reflect migration, identity, tradition, and transformation, the ensemble creates a throughline between past and present.

Chamber Concert

Riverwalk Center

Born in France, to a French father and Korean mother, the foundations of Irène Duval’s perceptive artistry were set during her studies at the Conservatoire de Paris and Kronberg Academy. In high demand as a chamber music partner, she’s joined this morning by Canadian pianist Connie Shih for a recital that encompasses the dynamic energy of Beethoven’s Fourth Violin Sonata and Robert Schumann’s dramatic Violin Sonata in D minor.

Irène Duval violin; Connie Shih piano

The veteran Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder is certain about the qualities that propelled Ariel Lanyi to the finals of the Leeds and Rubinstein International Piano Competitions. ‘His playing is precise, nuanced, and virtuosic, but he is no superficial virtuoso,’ he notes. ‘What sets him apart is his ability to delve deeply into the music and to establish a connection with it.’ Lanyi’s thoughtfully-crafted programme concludes with the character studies and atmospheric impressions of Debussy’s second book of Préludes.

Ariel Lanyi piano

A bold American portrait, live — Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, conducted by Gemma New with narration by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin, also featuring Jasmine Arielle Barnes’ American Lament performed by mezzo-soprano and Lehrer Vocal Institute Co-Director Sasha Cooke

Academy Chamber Orchestra: Copland, Barnes & Schumann

Lobero Theatre

Three icons of Romanticism, an emotional intermezzo, a world-famous violin concerto and the sounds of the Rhein will make up the program of the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Montpellier. The first notes of the concert will be played in a commemoration: Brahms’s lament seeking calm will be performed in the orchestration and in memory of Victor Aviat, principal oboist of the orchestra, who passed away in May. The Mendelssohn concerto in the middle, comprising a challenging opening movement, a lyrical aria and a finale evoking A Midsummer Night’s Dream will feature the soloist Renaud Capuçon, a returning guest artist for the BFO. The former concertmaster of Claudio Abbado will use his 1737 Guarnieri violin to share the deep and nuanced tones of the piece, while displaying the virtuosity which makes him a favorite of audiences and critics. The program will conclude with a Schumann symphony inspired by pleasant experiences and calling to mind a peaceful riverside excursion.

Tour: Montpellier Capuçon, Fischer

Le Corum

Admired for the strength and conviction of his individual interpretations and phenomenal technical command at the keyboard, George Xiaoyuan Fu has been hailed by The Arts Desk as ‘one of the most exciting young pianists of our time, no question’. The American musician, a seasoned composer as well as performer, presents a programme that reflects the breadth of his artistry and profound feeling for the piano’s tonal colours and textural nuances.

George Xiaoyuan Fu piano

Music from Salem brings together musicians of international reputation to prepare and perform chamber music in the peace and beauty of rural Washington County, New York, and environs. Chamber music is classical music written for a small group of performers, and includes a range of styles, from the 18th century to today. Music from Salem also leads educational workshops and conducts violin, viola, and cello seminars for emerging young artists.

Music From Salem July Summer Concert

Hubbard Hall - Center for the Arts and Education

Renowned for the intense focus of his music making and what the Guardian calls ‘the gentle, unshowy authority of his stage manner’, Konstantin Lifschitz combines the best of the great Russian tradition with tremendous poetic refinement. He begins with the Romantic music of Robert Schumann, before plunging into the headlong drama of Liszt’s First Mephisto Waltz and the striking contrasts of Brahms’s late Fantasien, which recall the fluctuating moods of Schumann’s youthful Kreisleriana.

Konstantin Lifschitz piano

CMS’s summer tradition returns for its 11th year. Get the summer’s hottest ticket, featuring favorite chamber music works in the cool atmosphere of Alice Tully Hall. Stay after the performance and get to know the artists in the lobby with a complimentary glass of wine. 

Summer Evenings I 2026

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Romanian composer Tiberiu Olah’s Sonata for clarinet solo distils the energy and mystery of primeval folk music into a short work of immense character. Julian Bliss sets it in company with the lyricism of the second of the two Clarinet sonatas Brahms composed in his final years. In the programme’s second half, he and James Baillieu explore the melancholy moods of Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke Op. 73 and restless contrasts of Brahms’s Clarinet Sonata in F minor.

Julian Bliss clarinet; James Baillieu piano

Kindred spirits Matthew Barley and Mishka Rushdie Momen share a refreshing attitude to thinking about and performing music, always ready to reject tired conventions yet alive to the essential spirit that unites the best of past and present. Their programme revels in the cello’s singing line, present in Barley’s elegant transcriptions of Lieder by Robert Schumann and the lyrical warmth and expressive gravity of Brahms’s First Cello Sonata.

Matthew Barley cello; Mishka Rushdie Momen piano

The Budapest Festival Orchestra takes a musical trip to the banks and into the depths of the Rhine when offering Schumann’s symphony, inspired by charming experiences and a Wagner scene. The former commemorates a peaceful riverside excursion to the Rhine, and the latter is one of the most famous scenes from the monumental opera tetralogy, The Ring of the Nibelung. The concert will feature two outstanding singers in the roles of Brünhilde and Wotan in one of the most dramatic father-daughter scenes in operatic literature. Swedish soprano Ingela Brimberg, who is very much at home in the Wagnerian repertoire, has sung the title role in numerous productions from Stockholm to Madrid to Bordeaux.

Tour: Alhambra, Granada

Patio of the Palace of Charles V

A chamber group of Leonidas Kavakos, Kirill Gerstein and members of The Apollon Ensemble unite for a richly-textured programme featuring Beethoven’s elegant String Trio, Dvořák’s spirited Terzetto and Elgar’s deeply expressive Piano Quintet.

Leonidas Kavakos violin; Kirill Gerstein piano; The Apollon Ensemble

"The Fantastic" is the theme of this season's chamber concerts in the Apollosaal, based on the season's first opera premiere, Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann . Musicians of the Staatskapelle Berlin have developed programs that approach this idea and concept, which play a key role in music, in a variety of ways. Ranging from the Baroque to the present day, with a special focus on the Romantic period, "The Fantastic" will be explored with a variety of chamber music works in diverse ensembles.

Chamber Concert IX

Berlin State Opera

German-born Rolf Schulte, whom The New Yorker has called “one of the most distinguished violinists of our day,” started playing the violin at age five under his father’s tutelage. He later studied with Kurt Schäffer at the Robert Schumann Institute in Düsseldorf, attended Yehudi Menuhin’s summer course in Gstaad, Switzerland, and studied with Franco Gulli at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena before moving to the United States to study with Ivan Galamian at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. At age 16, he made his orchestral debut with the Philharmonia Hungarica in Cologne, playing Mendelssohn’s Concerto. Under the auspices of Young Concert Artists he gave his New York debut at Town Hall to great acclaim.

Rolf Schulte, violin; James Winn, piano

The Chapel Restoration

The relationship between Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms is one of the most fascinating triangular relationships in music history. It was characterized by deep friendship, profound artistic admiration, and emotional intimacy that—one might hope—always remained within the bounds of social conventions. Robert Schumann, the visionary composer and music writer, and Clara Schumann, the exceptional pianist and passionate interpreter of his works, had a marriage marked by intense musical collaboration, but also by Robert's recurring mental health crises. When the twenty-year-old Johannes Brahms entered the couple's lives in 1853—young, brimming with creative energy, and possessing a talent that Robert celebrated with ecstatic enthusiasm as opening up "new paths" in music—a particularly close bond developed between the three of them. Robert treated the young Brahms with fatherly affection, nurtured his talent, and recognized his extraordinary genius, while Clara saw him as a kindred spirit and intellectual companion. Whether a love ever developed between her and Brahms that transcended the boundaries of friendship remains uncertain—a shadowy, fascinating mystery that continues to surround music history.

ROBERT & CLARA SCHUMANN VS. JOHANNES BRAHMS – The Shadow of Love

Landestheater Eisenach

Stadthalle Gotha

Oops, something's happening! Was Marie dreaming, or did that just come from the giggling and clattering of the toy box in her bedroom? Marie carefully lifts the lid and can't stop marveling... A playful, hands-on concert for children aged 3 and up, with music from Robert Schumann's famous Kinderszenen and Claude Debussy's Children 's Corner , among others .

3. Seat Cushion Concert: The Toy Box

Opernfoyer

Roman Borisov was First Prize-winner at both the Krainev Youth Competition 2019 and the Kissinger KlavierOlymp 2022. Now a seasoned concert performer living in Berlin, the young pianist presents a Wigmore Hall programme which includes a selection of Preludes from the 'ultramodernist' American composer and musicologist Ruth Crawford Seeger.

Roman Borisov

Beloved, do not let me be discouraged takes its title from a line in a poem by the 16th-century Turkish writer Fuzuli, in which he relates the legend of the ill-fated lovers Layli and Magnun, the eastern counterparts to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Brooklyn Rider sets Colin Jacobsen’s ecstatic score in company with a new quartet by Gabriela Lena Frank, named by the Washington Post as one of the most significant women composers in history, and Robert Schumann’s poetic First String Quartet.

Brooklyn Rider

Jazz meets classical as pianist Makoto Ozone joins conductor Jun Märkl for Rachmaninoff’s spirited Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Ozone’s own O’Berek, and Schumann’s “Spring” Symphony complete a concert that features vivacity and charm.

Season Finale: Makoto Ozone plays Rachmaninoff

Hilbert Circle Theatre

Join the ISO for Into the Music, a free series featuring a lively discussion followed by a performance—with full orchestra—of the highlighted classical work. Maestro Jun Märkl will co-host an on-stage discussion joined by Ryan Ahlwardt, who serves as co-host of Indy Now on FOX59.

Into The Music: Schumann

The power of this symphony never relents, from those iconic opening moments to the bright light of the finale. The end of the third movement is electric, strings hovering in suspense before erupting into one of the most triumphant transitions in classical music, from tension to pure release.

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Sydney Opera House

Archduke Rudolph of Austria was the pianist for the premiere of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto—and he also happened to be one of the composer’s most important patrons. To make him shine, Beethoven brought in two of the best players of the day. We’ve got our own trio of all-stars on tap for this program, which includes Schumann’s reflection of life in the Rhineland.

Beethoven Triple Concerto

Orchestra Room

We join RNCM student conductors and International Artist Diploma musicians for an afternoon of extraordinary music making in the BBC Philharmonic Studio.

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and RNCM: International Artist Diploma Performance 1

MediaCityUK

You know the opening. But the real thrill of Beethoven’s Fifth comes from the unrelenting momentum that follows. The transition from the third movement’s suspended hush into the finale is unforgettable.

For Schools: Open Rehearsal with Anja Bihlmaier

Four remarkable artists with a passion for chamber music have come together to form an exciting new piano-and-strings quartet, destined to become an audience favorite.  For decades, violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson, together with their piano trio partner the late Joseph Kalichstein, were hailed as “chamber music royalty” (Washington Post), a distinction that equally applies to their ESPRESSIVO! partners—the stellar violist Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, a founding member of the Dover Quartet, and the award-winning pianist Anna Polonsky, one of chamber music’s most sought-after collaborators.  Their program includes favorites by Beethoven and Schumann and a reprise of Richard Danielpour’s Book of Hours, co-commissioned by the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle and premiered on our series at Olin Auditorium in 2007.

Espressivo!

Fisher Center at Bard

For his return to the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, American conductor Ryan Bancroft has put together a program that, with works from Sweden, Germany, and Great Britain, essentially maps out his personal professional landscape. The concert begins with a young piece from Bancroft's current musical home of Sweden: The leader of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducts a work by former NDR Composer in Residence Anders Hillborg. This all-rounder of new music wrote his sonically irresistible "Sound Atlas" on commission from the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, among others. After the triumphant premiere in 2019, the Financial Times wrote: "If Stanley Kubrick were to return for a remake of '2001' and needed a soundtrack, Hillborg would be his man."

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Ryan Bancroft

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Season Finale: Strauss’ Metamorphosen with Gábor Takács-Nagy

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Between the fatum that attaches itself to Shakespeare's tragic lovers and the Taste of Metal, presented for the first time to French listeners, Schumann's Concerto slips its worried murmur into both light and shadow.

Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä

Philharmonie de Paris

Oliver Zhang, trumpet

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Josephine Mascarenhas, saxophone

In his 2023 CSO subscription debut, Conrad Tao gave a “dazzling, staggering” performance of Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F, wrote the Chicago Tribune, in which Tao “carried his melodies masterfully.” As part of the CSO’s monthlong focus on American music, the Illinois native returns with a selection of Gershwin song arrangements interspersed with works by Debussy, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Schoenberg and Robert Schumann.

Conrad Tao

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Sunmin Shin, piano

At the beginning of June, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt), with its solo clarinetist Tomaž Močilnik and the young French-British conductor Stephanie Childress, will open the Weilburg Castle Concerts. The program presented will perfectly suit the summer festival, featuring the late, intimately warm Clarinet Concerto by the Viennese Classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the 3rd Symphony by the German Romantic composer Robert Schumann, imbued with the spirit of the Rhineland.

Weilburg Castle Concerts

Schloss Weilburg

Tian Tang, piano

This semi-staged concert is based on our preconceptions of mental illness, with each piece having a connection to the psychology of the mind – centred around Peter Maxwell Davies’ harrowing depiction of the ‘madness’ of King George III.

Maxwell Davies was a key member of the Manchester School of Composers, who reshaped the landscape of British music in the late 20th century. 8 Songs for a Mad King is a melodrama with a libretto based on the real-life observations of King George III, presenting an extravagant and disturbing portrayal of his condition. 

Vocalising weirdly as he bemoans his fate, trying to teach his instrumentalist-birds to sing – our musicians becoming projections from within his own mind.

Manchester Camerata: 8 Songs for a Mad King

The Stoller Hall

Jonathan Biss Plays Schumann’s Piano Concerto

Shepherd of The Valley Lutheran Church

A concert like a tender confession. It begins with a lament and ends with a departure. In between, sound spaces unfold that offer protection while daring to be open. Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" resonates with painful beauty. Lisa Streich composed "Mantel" as a piece about coverings: about what they conceal and what shines through them. A fragile texture emerges that protects and conceals. But what lies beneath? In Caroline Shaw's "Entr'acte," we hear more than a harmless interlude: full of lightness and wit, it surprises with unexpected twists. And then: spring. Schumann's First Symphony allows hope to blossom with every note. Those who allow themselves to be carried by Schumann's momentum sense that even departure requires vulnerability. And how radically vibrant a new beginning can sound!

Spring Coat

Aula am Wilhelmsplatz

Jamie Park, double bass

This electrifying Australian group, founded in 2007 by brothers Daniel Kowalik (violin) and Karol Kowalik (cello), and friends Thomas Chawner (viola) and David Dalseno (violin), is one of the most exciting string quartets of its generation. Known for their engaging performances, they inspire reviews like this one from the Canberra CityNews: “incredible passion, fire and intensity. The audience erupted in thunderous applause and cheers. It was an electric and enthralling evening of the finest music making.” They are joined by award-winning pianist Olga Kern in what promises to be an evening you won’t want to miss!

Orava Quartet & Olga Kern, piano

Clay & Jay Barr Education Center

Music Arts Center

What does a river sound like? How does music march? And who plays what in the orchestra? In this concert for grades 3 and 4, students embark on a musical journey of discovery together with solo bassoonist Theo Plath and the hr Symphony Orchestra. The centerpiece is Robert Schumann's "Rhenish Symphony"—a work that is like a musical travel diary full of impressions. Inspired by his move to the Rhineland, Schumann incorporated images of nature, experiences, and moods—sometimes festive, sometimes dreamy. The instruments are introduced piece by piece, their roles in the orchestra explained—and, of course, experienced live. An interactive excursion right into the world of classical music: vivid, engaging, and full of listening fun for young ears!

Schumann's Orchestral Excursion

Hessischer Rundfunk

Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

A program perfectly suited to the "Quick & Classy" taste. Featuring the late, intimately warm Clarinet Concerto by the Viennese Classical composer Mozart and the Third Symphony by the German Romantic composer Schumann, brimming with the vibrant life of the Rhineland. Schumann's blissful mood gave rise to captivating symphonic soundscapes, a musical reflection of the new impressions he received after moving to the Rhine. These soundscapes will be brought to life by the young French-British conductor Stephanie Childress and the hr-Sinfonieorchester, just as hr-Solo Clarinetist Tomaž Močilnik will bring Mozart's soulful atmosphere and musical nuances to life. What touches the heart is joy for one.

Heart & Joy

Yunhoo Jeong, clarinet

7.  Chamber Concert

Theater Lübeck

Chrisjovan Masso, tuba

Chamber Concerto 9 »A three«

Oper Graz

Chamber Concert VIII

Tristen Johnson, cello

Austrian cellist Valerie Fritz combines classical and contemporary music with innovative concert formats. She is a winner of the Berlin Prize for Young Artists, a member of the NAMES ensemble, and this year an ECHO Rising Star. With self-designed programs and in collaboration with contemporary composers, she represents a new, unorthodox generation of musicians.

Sunday Matinee

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

9th Chamber Music Concert in the Vienna State Opera

Vienna State Opera

Frang, Hornung and Kozhukhin

Wiener Konzerthaus

The Ring Without Words is an orchestral suite that distills the most iconic themes from Richard Wagner’s monumental tetralogy, The Ring of the Nibelung. This 70-minute symphonic fresco encapsulates the essence of the 15-hour epic, telling the tale of a magical ring forged by the dwarf Alberich from gold stolen from the Rhine. While the ring grants immense power, it also brings ruin and destruction to those who possess it. Wotan, the king of the gods, attempts to control the ring but fails, leading to the gods’ downfall. Betrayed and manipulated, the hero Siegfried is killed by Hagen, son of Alberich. Brünnhilde, the Valkyrie, daughter of Wotan and wife of Siegfried, returns the ring to the Rhine, marking the end of an era. The Ring Without Words offers an immersive journey through Wagner’s world, highlighting its most memorable moments, including the prelude to Das Rheingold, the Ride of the Valkyries, Siegfried’s death and funeral music, and the apocalyptic conclusion in Twilight of the Gods. In a thrilling season finale, the soaring lyricism of Schumann’s Piano Concerto, performed by pianist Yefim Bronfman, contrasts with the destructive power of gold in Wagner’s epic, creating a stunning clash of opposing powers.

Wagner and the Legend of the Ring

Place des Arts

Iris Wu, violin

William Scarrow, bass-baritone

Philip Kleutgens, saxophone

As one of the most versatile musicians of the younger generation, Franziska Hölscher sets special concert accents with her virtuoso violin playing and her thoughtful programs – in Blaibach with Karl Amadeus Hartmann's moving "Concerto funebre." Her partners from the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra let Mozart's magnificent C major Quintet shine in full string splendor.

Franziska Hölscher & Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

Blaibach Concert Hall

Discover Mahler's mighty First Symphony as the Calgary Phil, conducted by Earl Lee, perform this orchestral epic that takes you from the joys of springtime — through rustic dances to an ironic funeral march — and culminates in victory over worldly despair. Before it, relish the rich, nostalgic poetry of Robert Schumann's eloquent Cello Concerto, featuring distinguished cellist Steven Isserlis.

Mahler's First Symphony

Arts Commons

Joonhyoung (Ben) Kim, piano

Chamber Concert VII

David Hilt, clarinet

Sinhwa Lee, piano

The last but one concert of the Chamber Music Series focuses on the folklore inspired works by the Slovak composer Ilya Zeljenka; as well as Antonín Dvořák, who used the subtitle “Slavonic” in his String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 51. The ninth concert, featuring the Kaprálová Quartet, will also offer Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44, with Petr Jiříkovský at the piano.

Schumann. Zeljenka. Dvořák

The Professed House, Prague

Marie Wurtz, piano

Sam Russ, tuba

Anthony Reznikovsky, piano

Light and darkness intertwine in this evocative chamber music concert. Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet dedicated to his wife Clara, captures the passionate highs and deep lows of his life. Marion von Tilzer gives voice to Vilma Grunwald’s final letter from Auschwitz, its resignation echoed by mezzo-soprano Bella Adamova. Dutch composer Henriëtte Bosmans’ lyrical String Quartet, written before the Second World War upended her life, completes the programme. Subdued, poignant, yet impetuous, this concert invites reflection and stirs the soul.

Composer

Robert Schumann

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 11 - Nov 15, 2026

Members of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra · Teatro alla Scala

Sep 19, 2026

Sherri Lun plays Schumann · Orchestra of St John’s

Sep 19, 2026

Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano · Wigmore Hall

Sep 22, 2026

Little Gems from Geiko Music High School · Royal Academy of Music

22 - 25 Sep, 2026

Daniele Rustioni · Teatro alla Scala

Past events

Sep 13, 2026

Trio Zadig · Wigmore Hall

Sep 13, 2026

Jonathan Biss, piano · Tippet Rise Art Center

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Symphony No. 4 by Schumann

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

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Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

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