Composer

Vaulted to worldwide prominence as the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Yunchan Lim returns to Symphony Hall for Robert Schumann’s lyrical, introspective Piano Concerto, written for his wife Clara, one of the most admired pianists of the 19th century. Inspired throughout his life by literary sources, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote his Manfred — actually a four-movement symphony — based on Lord Byron’s Gothic verse play of the same name about a nihilistic nobleman wandering the Alps in search of meaning.

Tchaikovsky Manfred and Schumann Piano Concerto with Yunchan Lim

Boston Symphony Orchestra

EPSG:4326

Sir Simon Rattle | Mahler 2

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Gasteig HP8

Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang has, for many years, been one of the world’s most sought-after soloists – known for her unique interpretations and dazzling virtuosity. She made her Konserthuset Stockholm debut in 2009 with the Oslo Philharmonic, and her first appearance with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra came in 2014. Since then, she has returned to the Konserthuset stage on several occasions.

Schumann and Brahms

Konserthuset Stockholm

Vilde Frang is a Norwegian star violinist who is now visiting Örebro for the first time. Her exquisite playing fits like a glove for Schumann's heartfelt violin concerto, which brilliantly contrasts with Brahms's first, fateful, symphony. He had struggled with the symphonic form for many years before finally releasing this monumental work that has since become a cornerstone of the symphonic repertoire. It took him 14 years to complete and premiered in 1876. The reviews were mixed and it is only later that it has been recognized as the masterpiece it is. We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the concerto is approximately 80 minutes long.

The Fateful One

Örebro Concert Hall

In 2022 Jonathan was both a prize-winner at the Young Classical Artists Trust and Concert Artists Guild joint International Auditions held at Wigmore Hall, and also nominated as a 2022 Classic FM ‘Rising Star’. Clara Schumann’s songs express contrasting themes of love and longing; intimacy and loss; lightness and darkness. The lyrical melodies translate beautifully to the expressive tones of the clarinet.

Jonathan Leibovitz & Joseph Havlat

Leeds Conservatoire

A musical journey full of memories: The overture from The Magic Flute opens festively and energetically, followed by the passionate first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor – with Chiaya Kakutani at the piano. The famous Adagio from Mozart's C major Concerto touches with its timeless beauty and inner peace. The Nutcracker Suite evokes childhood and Christmas, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel bridges the gap to the world of fairy tales, before the rousing potpourri from the musical Im weißen Rössl (The White Horse Inn) sets a cheerful mood. Susanne Hoch, with Leonhard Kreutzmann conducting the program with heart and sensitivity.

Concert For People With Dementia, Relatives And Everyone

Small Meistersinger Hall

The musical talent that runs in the Kanneh-Mason family is already the stuff of legend, and this recital by cellist Sheku and pianist Isata shows off the siblings’ extraordinary musicianship in an era-spanning program. Memorable works by two brilliant but historically unsung women composers — Nadia Boulanger and Rebecca Clarke — feature prominently alongside the colorful First Cello Sonata of Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann’s strikingly original Five Pieces in Folk Style.

The Kanneh-Masons in Recital

Severance Music Center

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

Community Church of Vero Beach

Gastkonzert Wernigerode

Konzerthaus Liebfrauen Wernigerode

Professor of Piano John Ellis will perform a recital including Novelettes by Poulenc, Ballade no. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 by Chopin, Prélude, Choral et Fugue by Franck, and Fantasy in C, Op. 17 by Schumann.

John Ellis, piano

Earl V. Moore Building

Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists. Winner of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, and the Avery Fisher Prize, Denk was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Denk returns frequently to Carnegie Hall and in recent seasons has appeared with the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra, as well as on tour with Academy St. Martin in the Fields, and at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms.

Jeremy Denk, Piano

The Town Hall

The Orchester der Oper Zürich starts the concert season under a new, old name. After thirteen years as Philharmonia Zurich, the orchestra will return to its original moniker. The Philharmonic Concerts will once again alternate between the Opernhaus and the Tonhalle Zürich.

Bezuidenhout & Minasi

Zurich Opera House

Düsseldorf, autumn 1853: Music director Robert Schumann had just completed a violin concerto for the young Joseph Joachim when the next child prodigy came knocking at his door: Johannes Brahms. Soulful days full of music followed – until Schumann was committed to a sanatorium in early 1854 after a suicide attempt. The artistic friendship between Joachim and Brahms endured a lifetime, despite occasional bouts of trouble.

4th Symphony Concert

Theater Nordhausen

House of Art

Superstar violinist Joshua Bell, whose “exquisite technique” (Orlando Sentinel) is matched by a “vaulted singing tone” (South Florida Classical Review), returns to the Knight Concert Hall with his exceptional Academy of St Martin in the Fields, “an ensemble of first-rate musicians, technically superb and generously expressive” (Dallas Morning News). They will perform two glorious masterworks of the Romantic repertory: Schumann's buoyant Symphony No. 1 and Saint-Saëns’ elegant and brilliant Violin Concerto No. 3.

Academy of St Martin in the Fields With Joshua Bell

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Rising Stars, and Great Romantics: what could be better? Two top winners from the LSO's annual Rising Stars young artist competition join the Orchestra in favorite movements from the concerto repertoire -- with their bookends being two of the great Second Symphonies of the early Romantic Era: the Austrian Franz Schubert, and the German genius Robert Schumann, who both left the world too soon.....while their symphonies have lasted forever.

Classical Magic

Viterbo University

Celebrate Spring with a concert that blooms full of beauty and elegance. Acclaimed violinist Chee-Yun returns to the WSO for a third time to perform Mendelssohn’s beloved Violin Concerto in E minor. Brahms’ spirited Hungarian Dances open the program with lively energy, and the night concludes with Schumann’s radiant ‘Spring’ Symphony, a joyful celebration of renewal and hope.

Spring Symphony

The Palace Theatre Greensburg

Just after conducting him in Rachmaninoff, Klaus Mäkelä reunites with Yunchan Lim to plunge, accompanied by soloists from the Orchestre de Paris, into the feverish adventure of Schumann's Quintet.

Schumann

Cité de la Musique

Experience a stirring program of transformation and artistry, led by the distinguished guest conductor Dinis Sousa. LACO Composer-in-Residence Huang Ruo makes his LACO debut with The Tipping Point, exploring the beauty and fragility of nature, while the great Isabelle Faust lends her masterful touch to Schumann’s deeply moving Violin Concerto. Mendelssohn’s joyous Symphony No. 4, “Italian” offers a radiantly joyous close to this stirring musical journey.

Turning Points: Faust + Sousa + Mendelssohn

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

One California Plaza

Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša leads selections from Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, a satirical slice-of-life opera set in a Bohemian village and filled with soaring tunes and folkloric color. Leif Ove Andsnes, whose Beethoven “is big, forthright, passionate” (The Guardian), scales the composer’s stormy Third Piano Concerto. Robert Schumann’s Spring Symphony captures the season’s restless vitality.

Jakub Hrůša & Leif Ove Andsnes

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Superstar Hilary Hahn and Grammy-nominated NSO newcomer Seth Parker Woods come together for the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s Double Concerto, a work that expands the dialogue between violin, cello, and orchestra. Warmth and complexity unfold in Brahms’ Symphony No. 3, blending bravado with introspection.

Hahn & Woods play Carlos Simon Brahms’ Third

Kennedy Center

Ten years ago, pianist Isata and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason arrived on the international classical music scene by way of Britain’s Got Talent: they made a splash as the eldest and third siblings in a remarkable family of musicians. As their stars rose, the young artists lived up to the hype, earning acclaim from critics and rapturous applause from audiences for recitals, orchestral appearances, and chart-topping recordings.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello & Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

New England Conservatory of Music

Groton Hill Music Center

World class cellist Mischa Maisky joins Christoph Eschenbach as he returns to the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra for an evening of captivating Romantic works. Mendelssohn’s Ruy Blas Overture sets a dramatic tone, followed by Tchaikovsky’s Nocturne for Cello and Orchestra, where Maisky’s emotive playing brings the lyrical beauty to the forefront. Bruch’s Kol Nidrei showcases the cello’s rich, mournful voice, before Respighi’s Adagio con variazione offers a moment of reflective tranquillity. The concert culminates with Schumann’s Symphony No. 2, a powerful work full of warmth and energy.

Maisky and Eschenbach

University of Oxford

Chamber Orchestra – Jane Glover, guest conductor

Musical Arts Center

Seong-Jin Cho

San Carlo Theatre

Tarmo Peltokoski, the Finnish "talent of the century" (Tagesspiegel) on the baton, has been a close collaborator with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen since his phenomenally successful debut in June 2021. This season, Hamburg audiences will once again experience how Peltokoski's energetic presence spurs the Kammerphilharmonie's musicians to crackling peak performances. The evening's soloist is another exceptional young talent, Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich.

The German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen

Trio Confero was founded in 2018 by clarinetist Maksim Shtrykov as a logical continuation of his quest to bring to the larger audience, the superb yet seldom performed chamber music repertoire for clarinet. The journey began in 2012 when, together with his partner Japanese pianist Misuzu Tanaka, they formed the Shtrykov-Tanaka Duo and began touring in the United States garnering an impressive record of instant re-engagements. With the addition of cellist Julia Kang to the Duo, Trio Confero is comprised of three exceptionally talented musicians who are prizewinners of many international competitions and graduates of the world’s most prestigious music academies.

Trio Confero

United Methodist Church Ridgecrest

With their “polished sonority and well-balanced, tightly synchronized ensemble” (Chicago Classical Review), the young Isidore Quartet has swiftly soared to prominence, winning the 2022 Banff Competition and a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Now, they present a new work written for them by foremost American composer and Grammy-winning jazz pianist Billy Childs. Jeremy Denk, “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs” (The New York Times) joins them for Schumann’s expansive Piano Quintet.

Isidore String Quartet Jeremy Denk, piano

Johns Hopkins University

Tangazo is a dreamy, sensuous example of Piazzolla’s signature tango nuevo style. Robert Schumann’s first symphony is buoyant and optimistic, containing some of the most joyous music the composer ever wrote. Arthur Gottschalk’s 50th anniversary commission is a rhapsody in the vein of Gershwin and Milhaud, written for alumnus Milton Rubén Laufer.

Springtime Rhapsody

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

Join Benjamin Grosvenor for a fascinating program of fantasies and sonatas spanning the 19th century. Beethoven’s dreamlike Moonlight Sonata is followed by Robert Schumann’s mighty C Major Fantasy, dedicated to fellow virtuoso Liszt. Scriabin’s luminous Sonata No. 2 — inspired by the sea, with its gentle, moonlit waves and stormy climax — leads to Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, a masterpiece of shimmering colors and breathtaking virtuosity.

Benjamin Grosvenor

Concert 6

La Jolla Woman's Club

Maestra Tania Miller and the SSO will shake off your winter blues for at least this one March night.

Spring Fever

TCU Place

Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony is not just a masterpiece of Romanticism, but also an early example of the "Nordic style" – a sound ideal that also permeated the music of Sibelius, Grieg, and Brahms. In keeping with this, artists from the north will be presenting today’s concert: Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich, who began his university training in Karlsruhe at the age of eleven, Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

Romantic Scotland

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Romantic masterpieces take center stage with Music Director Laureate Louis Langrée. Inaugural Nina Simone Piano Concerto Competition winner Clayton Stephenson opens the program with Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 — a lush, expansive dialogue between soloist and orchestra that flows with both grandeur and intimacy. Then, Schumann's Symphony No. 4 bursts onto the stage with energy and romantic fervor, weaving a metaphorical journey of human struggle, introspection and ultimate triumph.

Brahms & Schumann

Cincinnati Music Hall

Two world-renowned musical acts, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and violin virtuoso Joshua Bell, join forces in an unforgettable performance.

Academy of St Martin in the Fields

The Music Center at Strathmore

Conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla is joined by violinist Vilde Frang for Elgar’s Violin Concerto, a work featuring passionate expression from the soloist and a rich orchestral palette. György Kurtág’s Brefs messages is performed on the composer’s centennial, and spring arrives with Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 — with brass fanfares and pastoral interludes that lead to an ecstatic ending.

Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts Elgar & Schumann

David Geffen Hall

The horn held a high status in the Romantic era. It was the instrument whose distinctive sound symbolized nature, the forest, and freedom. The German Hornsound ensemble will perform a full horn quartet in this school concert, playing Robert Schumann's Konzertstück for four horns and orchestra. The forest also plays a central role in the Romantic opera "Der Freischütz," whose overture will be heard in this concert.

In The Forest, There Are The Horns

BASF-Feierabendhaus

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields are thrilled to be returning to Carnegie Hall with Joshua Bell in the year of the 15th anniversary of his Music Directorship with a programme featuring Brahms’ magnificent Violin Concerto in D major and Schumann’s vibrant, energetic and joyful ‘Spring’ Symphony No. 1.

ASMF & Joshua Bell – Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Schumann and Brahms had an enormous impact on each other's lives and work, and here they appear together in two sumptuous works that exude love for what brought them together: music as music, without explanations.

Bleuse, Brahms & Schumann

Odense Concert Hall

Welcome the orchestra’s many colours and irresistible melodies in this 19th-century journey with conductor Thomas Dausgaard and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. We hear symphonies by Robert Schumann and Johan Svendsen.

Schumann Symphony No. 2

Göteborgs Symfoniker

Guest Concert

"Passage and Pulse" offers a rich exploration of movement, memory, and musical form. Anchored by Saint-Saëns’s dramatic Piano Concerto No. 2 and Schumann’s radiant Symphony No. 2, the program traces expressive arcs that are both intimate and grand. Additional works to be announced.

ASU Symphony Orchestra "Passage and Pulse"

Library of Music

"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 IV

Berlin State Opera

»Schumann’s music opens up a whole world of new musical forms for us, touching strings that his great predecessors have not yet touched.« This is how none other than Piotr Tchaikovsky enthused about his German colleague. In fact, Schumann – alongside Mozart and Mendelssohn – was a great role model for the creator of ‘Pathétique’, »Swan Lake« and co. In the music of the older Romantic composer, Tchaikovsky found »the echo of mysterious processes of our soul life that move the heart of today’s man.« So there are plenty of reasons to juxtapose selected works by the two »brothers in spirit«. In the Elbphilharmonie, the NDR Vokalensemble under Kaspars Putniņš, currently chief conductor of the Swedish and Latvian Radio Choirs, and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under star conductor Paavo Järvi will explore this affinity.

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / NDR Vocal Ensemble / Philip Mayers / Paavo Järvi

Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields return to Davies Symphony Hall for a program featuring Johannes Brahms’s Violin Concerto and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, Spring.

Joshua Bell & Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Davies Symphony Hall

Praised for her lustrous tone and deft, dancing energy in a wide range of repertoire, New Zealand-born, US-raised violinist Geneva Lewis has been garnering attention on the international recital circuit since winning both the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Geneva Lewis, violin Evren Ozel, piano

University of California, Berkeley

Learn to ‘listen differently’ as the Philharmonia’s Featured Artist Víkingur Ólafsson celebrates the 100th birthday of György Kurtág. 

Ólafsson’s meticulous and deeply personal performances and recordings have encouraged his many fans to listen anew to music ranging from the 17th century to the present day. And the music of Hungarian composer György Kurtág, the concentrated essence of an era-defining career spanning seven decades, addresses the phenomenon of sound and the act of listening itself.  

In this 45-minute concert, explore a web of composers from across the centuries paying tribute to those who came before them.  

Víkingur Ólafsson celebrates Kurtág at 100

Southbank Centre

After instructing the Spokane Symphony Conducting Workshop last year, we’re delighted to welcome back Johannes Schlaefli. His program explores music’s most famous love triangle. Clara Schumann was 19 when she composed her piano concerto but stopped writing after her husband Robert’s death to support her eight children. The nature of her passionate relationship with the younger Johannes Brahms remains an enduring mystery.

Masterworks 6: Love Triangle

Martin Woldson Theater

Featuring the performance of the Young Artist Competition Winner and the Brahms Symphony #2. Program also includes Shostakovich Festival Overture and the Concertstuck for 4 Horns, Op 86 by Schumann.

Bright Horizons

Performing Arts Center of Rapid City

Peter Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony fascinates with its stirring musical language. The symphony also recounts an eventful artistic life, for the Russian composer's biography was a rollercoaster of emotions. Premiered in Moscow in 1878, the symphony soon conquered the entire world. Just nine years later, Johannes Brahms composed his rousing "Double Concerto" for violin, cello, and orchestra. The work once celebrated its premiere in Cologne. The demanding solo parts are performed by the South Korean violinist Seohyun Kim and the award-winning German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott.

String splendor - Tchaikovsky & Brahms

Museum Ludwig

Join us on a symphonic river cruise through Robert Schumann's homeland, along the sparkling Rhine. Symphony No. 3, the Rhine Symphony, is a declaration of love for the idyllic landscapes where he experienced one of his happiest periods. Schumann master Andrew Manze leads us through this sunny time in Schumann's life. Robert and Clara Schumann were united not only in life, but also in their creations. Clara Schumann's Three Romances, here orchestrated by Benjamin Murashkin, allow us to hear her music with new fervor. The work contains both heartfelt intimacy and melancholy – music that speaks directly to the heart.

Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

Växjö Konserthus

Two Brahms masterworks appear in the 2025-26 Season. Joshua Bell and Academy of St Martin in the Fields perform Brahms’ Violin Concerto (1878), and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs his Symphony No. 4 which premiered seven years later. Brahms openly paid homage to Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, echoing several key aspects such as the interplay between timpani and violin. For the premiere, Brahms even programmed Beethoven’s to precede his own, further emphasizing the relationship. What makes Brahms’ unique are the cadenzas, which are considered some of the finest in all the violin repertoire.

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts

Fritz specialises in both contemporary and classical music, applying experiments with electronics and gut strings to a broad repertoire. For this performance in LSO St Luke’s, the programme explores the complex tension between doubt and faith, from Schumann’s Five Pieces in Folk Style, through a movement from Messiaen’s startling Quatour pour le fin du temps, to more contemporary works, such as Mikołaj Majkusiak’s Rhythms of Doubt, and a brand new ECHO commission by Jennifer Walshe.

ECHO Rising Stars: Valerie Fritz

LSO St Luke's

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Music Director Joshua Bell return to the USA for a major tour with multiple programmes including Brahms’ magnificent Violin Concerto in D major and Saint-Saëns’  Violin Concerto No.3 in B minor with Bell taking centre stage, then leading Schumann’s vibrant, energetic and joyful  ‘Spring’ Symphony No. 1 and Dvorak’s Symphony No.8 in G major from the violin.

ASMF & Joshua Bell USA

Soka University of America

University of Iowa

California State University, Northridge

College of the Desert

Temple Theatre

University of California, Davis

Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

The Community Church of Vero Beach

Marc-André Hamelin, a pianist celebrated for his astonishing technique and profound musicality, explores the music of two restless visionaries: Ives, whose Concord Sonata salutes Transcendentalist thinkers from Emerson to Thoreau, and Scriabin, represented by his turbulent and soul-searching Third Piano Sonata. Robert Schumann’s mercurial Fantasy Pieces span humor, joy and brooding intensity.

Marc-André Hamelin

Daniel Lebhardt first appeared in our Series in his early twenties, having won awards and released his first album on Decca. He’s now enjoying a busy international career, and his recital demonstrates the progression of three great composers. The second of Beethoven’s Op. 31 sonatas, the Tempest, is full of anger and despair, perhaps reflecting Beethoven’s increasing deafness, and is one of his most moving pieces. Schumann’s Dawn Songs were his last coherent piano pieces written before his fatal breakdown, described by Clara as unsettling, yet touching and beautiful. Also written in the final years of his life, Brahm’s four pieces are melancholic, yet shot through with warmth and playfulness, increasing in spirit, and ending in defiance.

Sunday Piano Series: Daniel Lebhardt

Royal Concert Hall Nottingham

Seven times this season, members of the Mainz Philharmonic State Orchestra and guests will perform Sunday matinees in the foyer of the Grand Hall. Here, various ensembles cultivate the rich genre of chamber music and present works of their own choosing – from great classics to rare chamber music works.

Sunday matinee in February

Staatstheater Mainz

Experience the exceptional artistry of SCO Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev in his other great musical passion: chamber music. As well as an effervescent conductor, Maxim is an accomplished keyboard soloist: join him and his friends and colleagues from the Orchestra in two very different but equally heartfelt works by Robert Schumann, written within just weeks of each other.

Maxim and Friends

The Queen's Hall

Robert Schumann’s joyous First Symphony, written after his marriage to Clara Wieck, captures the optimism of spring. Philippe Herreweghe, a devoted admirer of Schumann’s music, brings this vitality to life. Contrasting in mood is Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24, performed by French pianist Bertrand Chamayou. This introspective masterpiece, where the orchestra becomes an equal partner in the musical drama, deeply influenced Beethoven’s own work. With these historic highlights, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra treats its Brussels audience to an evening of timeless brilliance.

Philippe Herreweghe and Bertrand Chamayou

BOZAR

Pianist Jeremy Denk’s programming evokes a sense of “poetic logic” (Boston Classical Review) that has captivated PCMS audiences for decades. For this season’s appearance, Denk illuminates works by nine female composers from past and present.

Jeremy Denk, piano

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

His Fourth Symphony sees Beethoven at his sunniest, brimming with good humor and geniality, and inspired by the quick wit of his mentor, Joseph Haydn. Robert Schumann insisted that his Cello Concerto was “jolly,” but its maelstrom of internal drama, tension and longing reveals otherwise. Acclaimed cellist Jan Vogler returns to Seattle to perform the work with Music Director Xian Zhang. Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s intriguing Primal Message was inspired by a 1974 interstellar radio message sent to the Hercules Globular Cluster. This intergalactic greeting carried information about humanity, Earth and our place in the universe, intended for any being that might have ears to hear it.

Xian Conducts Schumann & Beethoven

Benaroya Hall

This musical journey travels from the American prairie to the cafés of Paris, the forests of Finland, and the rivers of Germany—blending local voices with global inspiration. We begin at home with Tim Hinck’s “Prairie Nightscape”, a quietly radiant snapshot of dawn breaking across wide open land. Then it’s off to Milhaud’s Le Bœuf sur le toit, a whirlwind of Brazilian melodies and French playfulness—quirky, jazzy, and irresistibly fun. Darius Milhaud’s playful and whimsical Le Bœuf sur le toit follows, a jazz-infused romp inspired by Brazilian melodies that brims with charm and rhythmic vitality. In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the Chattanooga Youth Symphony joins the CSO onstage for a powerful Side-by-Side performance. Together, they perform Sibelius’ Finlandia, a proud and urgent call for resilience, and Schumann’s “Rhenish” Symphony, an expansive, joyful work inspired by the majesty of the Rhine. With both CSO conductors sharing the podium and generations of musicians sharing the stage, this evening is about exploration, connection, and the enduring power of music—across borders and across time.

Finlandia Side-by-Side

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium

The acclaimed JUPITER QUARTET performs on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at Libby Gardner Concert Hall as part of the Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City’s 60th Anniversary Season.

Jupiter Quartet

University of Utah

Benjamin Appl is one of the most expressive artists of the young generation of singers and has been a household name among Hamburg's song fans since October 2023 at the latest. With full vocal commitment, he sang Robert Schumann's "Dichterliebe" in the Grand Hall of the Elbphilharmonie as a replacement for the ill Matthias Goerne. The verdict was unequivocal: "Breathtaking!" (Hamburger Abendblatt). Now he returns with this cycle and can unfold his "vast range of colors" (Süddeutsche Zeitung) all the more effectively in the intimacy of the Recital Hall. He will be joined by his longtime piano partner and one of the most renowned accompanists, James Baillieu.

Benjamin Appl / Song Recital

Loren Loiacono + Tchaikovsky & Mahler

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

University Philharmonia Orchestra

University of Michigan

The NDR Radiophilharmonie brings music by Schumann and Tchaikovsky to Lübeck: the "Manfred" Overture, the "Manfred" Symphony and Schumann's Cello Concerto, played by Truls Mørk.

Lübeck. Stanislav Kochanovsky & Truls Mørk

Music and Congress Hall Lübeck

In an evening custom built for Valentine’s Day, world renowned pianist Anastaysia Poff, wife of IPO’s esteemed Gibb Music Director Stilian Kirov, takes center stage to lead this romantically tinged program. The performance will include Fanny Mendelssohn’s Overture in C major along with Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto and her husband Richard Schumann’s Symphony No. 4.

VALENTINE’S DAY with IPO

Trinity Christian College

In his music to Egmont, Beethoven magnificently distilled the heroic tale of a Dutch warrior who gave his life to preserve freedom and independence in the face of oppression. "Beethoven has done wonders in matching music to text…,” remarked Egmont playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Gustavo Dudamel leads the LA Phil in a narrated performance of Beethoven’s music for the play. Leading off the evening is the world premiere of Ricardo Lorenz’s Humboldt’s Nature, inspired by the South American travels of Beethoven’s like-minded contemporary, philosopher and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. In between, piano sensation Yunchan Lim, winner of the 2022 Van Cliburn competition, performs Beethoven’s enchanting Second Piano Concerto.

Composer

Robert Schumann

Events

Upcoming events

May 11, 2025 - May 10, 2026

6th Chamber Concert · Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Sep 16, 2025 - Jun 16, 2026

NDR Chamber Concert · Elbphilharmonie

Sep 21, 2025 - May 10, 2026

Chamber Concert / Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra · Elbphilharmonie

Sep 26, 2025 - Jun 5, 2026

Opera Workshop · Staatsoper Hamburg

19 - 21 Mar, 2026

Sir Simon Rattle | Mahler 2 · Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Past events

19 - 22 Mar, 2026

Tchaikovsky Manfred and Schumann Piano Concerto with Yunchan Lim · Boston Symphony Orchestra

19 - 21 Mar, 2026

Sir Simon Rattle | Mahler 2 · Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

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