Composer

One of the most distinctive artists and polymaths of his generation, Sir Stephen Hough combines a distinguished career as a pianist with those of a composer and writer. The first classical performer to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, Hough is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from Northwestern University, the Royal Philharmonic Instrumentalist Award, and first prize at the Naumburg Competition. In 2014, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Hough has performed with most of the major European, Asian, and American orchestras and regularly plays recitals in major halls, concert series, and festivals around the world. His catalogue of over sixty albums has garnered prizes such as the Diapason d’Or de l’Année, Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, several Grammy nominations, and eight Gramophone awards, including the “Gold Disc” Award, which named his complete Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos as the best recording of the past thirty years. As a composer, Hough has written commissions for institutions such as the Cliburn, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Wigmore Hall. Hough holds the International Chair of Piano Studies at Manchester’s Royal Northern College and is a faculty member at the Juilliard School.

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Stephen Hough, piano

Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall

The first half of this program presents works by the husband-and-wife team of Robert  and Clara Schumann presented side-by-side. Clara’s “Three Romances” for violin have  been re-arranged for orchestral accompaniment by yours truly, and will be performed by Sedona Symphony’s own concertmaster, Sarah Schreffler. For Robert Schumann’s  cello concerto, we’ve got the great young cellist Gabriel Martins joining us — who, as  luck would have it, has a strong Sedona connection!

The Romantics

Sedona Performing Arts Center

Welcome to a carnivalesque evening full of lively rhythms and magnificent orchestration! Dvořák's lively Carnival Overture kicks things off, followed by two lively overtures by Johann Strauss. Solo violinist Hanan Santos gives Paganini's virtuoso Carnival of Venice a brilliant climax. The program continues with Berlioz' fiery overture to the Roman Carnival, which captures the festive atmosphere of Rome.

Carnival of sounds with J. Strauss and N. Paganini

University of Salzburg Great Hall of the University

Welcome to a carnivalesque evening full of lively rhythms and magnificent orchestration! The concert begins with Dvořák's sparkling Carnival Overture , followed by two lively overtures by Johann Strauss. Solo violinist Hanan Santos brings Paganini's virtuoso Carnival of Venice to a brilliant climax. The concert continues with Berlioz's fiery Roman Carnival Overture , which captures the festive atmosphere of Rome.

Carnival of Sounds with J. Strauss and N. Paganini

A concert of passion, grace, and orchestral brilliance awaits. Cellist Zlatomir Fung joins the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera again for Tchaikovsky’s elegant “Variations on a Rococo Theme,” showcasing the instrument’s expressive range. The evening begins with selections from Catan’s “Florencia” and concludes with Schumann’s exuberant Symphony No. 3, under the expert direction of Principal Conductor Ari Pelto.

Tchaikovsky & Schumann

Safe Credit Union Performing Arts Center

Frank’s Sandbox Premiere

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Two years ago, we began our concert on the Domplatte, even before Brings came on stage, with a few bars of music that probably every older person in the Rhineland knows: the beginning of Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 3, the so-called Rhenish Symphony . Condensed into just a few bars, this opening was a TV jingle on Hier und Heute for years and stood for our entire state.

Rhenish

Beethoven Hall

Sci-fi meets rococo in Missy Mazzoli’s mind-blowing tone poem Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres), which opens this space-inspired program. The evening’s main number is Thea Musgrave’s oboe concerto Helios, performed by German soloist Juri Vallentin, in which we follow the Greek sun god’s journey across the firmament. Robert Schumann’s more earth-oriented, jubilant First Symphony, also called the “Spring Symphony,” finally brings us back down to earth.

Musgrave and Schumann

Sara cultural center

Norrlandsoperan

Almost exactly nine years ago, the Elbphilharmonie organ was played for the first time in a solo concert. Since then, titular organist Iveta Apkalna, who was also at the console back then, has presented ever-expanding organ repertoire with exciting programs—this time including minimal music by Philip Glass and music by organ favorites Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, and Pēteris Vasks.

Iveta Apkalna, Orgel

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Icelandic music does not appear very often on concert programs. However, in recent years, more and more contemporary Icelandic composers have begun to be performed around the world. Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir is one of them. This is the first time her music has been performed by the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.

Schumann & Sibelius

Louis de Geer konsert & kongress

Prepare to be captivated by the extraordinary talent of internationally acclaimed pianist Seong-Jin Cho. Celebrated for his profound artistry and technical mastery, Cho brings a rare depth of emotion and brilliance to every note.

Seong-Jin Cho, piano

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Emmanuel Pahud & Éric Le Sage: Recital

Mozarteum Foundation

A favorite of LA Phil and worldwide audiences, Korean star pianist Seong-Jin Cho is back again with a colorful program of pieces that span nearly 200 years.

Seong-Jin Cho

Walt Disney Concert Hall

The explorative Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes gives a recital focused on Central European music by Kurtág, Janáček, Bartók, and Liszt—all radically inventive composers of their eras. Works by Robert Schumann frame the program, including his dizzying piano cycle Carnaval. Andsnes was named one of Classic FM’s 25 best pianists of all time and called “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power, and insight” by The New York Times.

Leif Ove Andsnes

Stanford University

We put our heart and soul into this concert. Sweeping melodies, intense emotions, and symphonic brilliance abound in this program of Romantic greats.

Schubert’s overture, originally composed for Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus, has since become a concert hall favorite, captivating audiences with its elegance and charm.

Hopelessly Romantic

California Theatre

BBC New Generation Artist and 2025 Terence Judd-Hallé Award winner, Julius Asal joins players from the orchestra for a programme built around Schumann’s Piano Quintet. The first ever piece for this combination of instruments, the outer movements are full of exuberance and extroversion, and frame a hauntingly beautiful funeral march.

Chamber Series: Julius Asal

Hallé St Peter's

Frizza/Colli

San Carlo Theatre

The Hallé – Chamber Series: Julius Asal

Isn't it fortunate for us that Schumann didn't have one with opera? How many lieder, expressions of his sensitivity and poetic affinities, were thus born in place of the conventions of theater? Le Paradis et la Péri, a miracle of Schumannian atypicality, is a secular oratorio, even if the term seems ill-suited to express the dazzling visions of angels, elves, and paradise lost that inspire this hour and forty minutes of music. Dreamlike music and a dreamlike set led by the future musical director of the National, Philippe Jordan.

Paradise and the Peri / Philippe Jordan

Cité de la Musique

The Washington Chorus joins Gianandrea Noseda and the NSO for three choral masterpieces by Brahms. Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) and Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) grapple with fate’s inescapable hand—one offering celestial consolation, the other a foreboding omen. Nänie, named for the Roman goddess, is a powerful requiem set to the poem by Friedrich von Schiller. These mesmeric works choral set the stage for a visceral finale: Schumann’s Symphony No. 2.

Songs of Destiny & Fate

Kennedy Center

An evening that invokes the spirit of Romanticism: the overture to »Der Freischütz« introduces a key work from the era, whose magic spell was cast early in the Dresden career of Carl Maria von Weber. Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor combines poetic expression with formal clarity. First performed in Dresden in December 1845, the work sees the piano and orchestra enter into a lively dialogue. The programme concludes with Mendelssohn’s »Scottish« symphony, an atmospheric piece permeated by a sense of vastness, melancholy and hymn-like power. Drawing inspiration from a visit to Edinburgh’s Holyrood Palace in 1829, the young composer did not complete the symphony until twelve years later.

Special concert with Myung-Whun Chung

Palace of Culture

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields joins its Music Director, virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell for a programme featuring Brahms’ magnificent Violin Concerto, showcasing some of Brahms’ richest writing, and Schumann’s vibrant, energetic and joyful ‘Spring’ Symphony No. 1 – both directed by Joshua from the violin.

The programme will also include Kevin Puts’ extraordinary Earth – a contribution to Joshua’s Elements project, consisting of five new commissions shaped around water, air, fire, space and earth. Shaped around a four-note ostinato and lyrical phrases that are traded between the violin and orchestra, Puts’ work is an example of the stability and endurance of this element, as well as acting as a reverent tribute to planet Earth.

Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Joshua Bell

Cadogan Hall 

Some photos on Giorgi Gigashvili's Instagram profile suggest he's more likely to be in a Berlin techno club than on a classical concert stage. For the Georgian pianist, born in 2000, these worlds aren't so contradictory after all – he's playing sonatas by Scarlatti one moment, singing and accompanying folk songs from his homeland the next, and experimenting with electronic music shortly after. And with success: Prizes at prestigious piano competitions, a place among Georgia's Forbes magazine's most influential "30 under 30," and a nomination as a "Rising Star" by the European Concert Hall Organization all mark his young career.

Giorgi Gigashvili, Klavier

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields join Music Director Joshua Bell for a concert at London’s Cadogan Hall as the finale to their tour across Europe with a programme including Kevin Puts’ extraordinary Earth – a contribution to Joshua’s ‘Elements’ project, consisting of five new commissions shaped around water, air, fire, space and earth. Shaped around a four-note ostinato and the lyrical phrases that are traded between the violin and orchestra, Puts’ work is an example of the stability and endurance of this element, as well as acting as a reverent tribute to the planet Earth.

ASMF & Joshua Bell LONDON

Canadian piano superstar, Meagan Milatz joins us to blow the roof off of the Winspear with Robert Schumann’s incredible piano quintet. This perennial favourite is virtuosic, joyful and thrilling for performer and audience alike. The first half of this concert includes Clara Schumann’s Soirées Musicales and the riveting sixth string quartet of Béla Bartok.

Meet the Schumanns

Winspear Centre

American mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey makes her Cal Performances debut with an inviting program of lieder, cabaret songs, and popular favorites sung in English, French, and German. Hankey made a big splash in the opera world when she appeared in a last-minute cast change as Octavian in the Metropolitan Opera’s Der Rosenkavalier in 2023, where the New York Times praised her “mighty yet smooth sound…tireless energy and dramatic skill.”

Samantha Hankey, mezzo-soprano* Myra Huang, piano

University of California, Berkeley

The Minguet Quartet's programs are not just chamber music of the highest caliber, but always also an invitation to the audience to engage in dialogue and participation. The four musicians have already committed themselves to this with their ensemble's name: their namesake is the Spanish writer and music educator Pablo Minguet, who strove in his writings to provide access to the fine arts for all. The fourth chamber concert also features works from different eras in dialogue with each other: the concert begins in a truly classical style with one of the last quartets by Joseph Haydn, the inventor of the string quartet; at the end, we hear Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2, nothing less than a milestone in New Music – the transition to atonality. Tradition and modernity also converge in the works of the Romantics Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann, as they are performed in the transcription by Aribert Reimann, one of the most distinguished composers of the second half of the 20th century, who died in 2024. The quartet also enters into dialogue with soprano Sarah Maria Sun, who is also known for her profound program ideas and as a specialist in contemporary music: she has already sung more than 400 world premieres.

Dialogues

CityPalais

Austrian cellist Valerie Fritz loves the extraordinary, the unusual. Even at the beginning of her studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg, she knew that a classical career with the standard repertoire was out of the question for her. Her self-confidence has already taken the young artist far: she has been nominated by the Elbphilharmonie, among others, and is a "Rising Star" in the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO) season. With accordionist Goran Stevanovich, she explores the spatial, acoustic, and interpersonal aspects of the concert setting with music from Bach to the present day.

Valerie Fritz, Violoncello

Kick off the evening with Schumann’s electrifying Overture, Scherzo, and Finale —its fiery energy and playful twists set the perfect laid‑back yet thrilling tone. Then, feel the chemistry as Amy Schwartz Moretti (violin) and Edward Aaron (cello) team up in Brahms’s sumptuous Double Concerto. Folk‑tinged melodies and lush, intertwining lines make this a heartfelt, toe‑tapping highlight.

Beethoven and Blue Jeans 2026

University of South Carolina

Daniel Vnukowski with the Odin Quartet

Knox United Church Toronto

Each season, the Czech Chamber Music Society introduces its audience to the brightest rising stars—winners of prestigious competitions held over the past year. Who will take the spotlight this time remains to be seen; the coming months will reveal all.

Czech Chamber Music Society • Concert of competition winners

Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

Helaine Liebman London, soprano

Yefim Bronfman returns to the NY Phil with Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto, one of the most impassioned statements of the Romantic period. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, which borrows from Ukrainian folk tunes, dances its way to a joyous finale. Chen Yi’s Landscape Impression, inspired by millennium-old Chinese poetry, opens this concert conducted by Xian Zhang.

Yefim Bronfman Plays Schumann

David Geffen Hall

Particularly outstanding talents from the MUK (Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna) are gathered once again for this concert before they finally cross the threshold into professional life: MUK graduates will showcase their skills this evening and captivate the audience at the Musikverein with a top-class and diverse program. The soloists  will present demanding programs that reflect their own musical identities—the current state of a new generation of vibrant, constantly evolving personalities launching their careers from Vienna: with considerable skill, energy, creative ideas, and idealism!

Send Off! — MUK.graduates in concert

Musikverein Wien

The »Cameristi della Scala« orchestra from the world-famous La Scala in Milan will perform in the Great Hall this evening. In addition to the great symphonies of Mozart and Beethoven, Schumann’s cello concerto will also be performed with the renowned cellist Natalie Clein – a varied programme to kick off the year!

Chamber Musicians of La Scala

Czech Philharmonic’s Artist-in-Residence, Evgeny Kissin, will also appear at the Rudolfinum’s Suk Hall as a soloist. The world-renowned piano virtuoso will perform a selection of Chopin’s intimate Mazurkas, alongside Schumann’s richly layered Kreisleriana—a cycle dedicated to Chopin himself. Adding a distinctive touch to the programme is a sonata by 20th-century Russian composer Nikolai Myaskovsky.

Czech Chamber Music Society • Evgeny Kissin

Rudolfinum

Voices of Revolution

Woodstock Playhouse

The program opens with Mozart's Trio in E major KV 542 , a luminous work where classical elegance converses with an unsuspected depth, notably in the andante grazioso with its captivating melodies. Then, the Slavic soul is revealed with Dvořák's "Dumky" Trio , an iconic piece blending melancholy and folkloric energy. Its six contrasting movements, inspired by dumky (Slavic ballads), oscillate between pain and joy, carried by passionate dialogues between the instruments. The finale returns to Schumann and his Trio in G minor opus 110 , a romantic masterpiece where youthful ardor and introspection echo each other. The feverishly soaring Allegro and the vehement finale rub shoulders with moments of rare delicacy, revealing the composer's tormented sensitivity. An invitation to discover the magic of instrumental dialogue where each note breathes under the fingers of these exceptional artists.

Trio harmony

Opéra Berlioz

Experience an evening of wondrous beauty as Andreas Delfs leads the RPO in a program of lyricism and grandeur. The incomparable Yefim Bronfman brings passion and poetry to Schumann’s Piano Concerto, while soprano Jasmine Habersham lends her radiant voice to a Lowell Liebermann world premiere (Voices of Today commission). Habersham is also featured in Mahler’s luminous Symphony No. 4, a work of celestial serenity and childlike wonder. Don’t miss this spellbinding night of symphonic storytelling!

Romance & Revelation

Eastman Theatre

RPO: Romance & Revelation

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields join Music Director Joshua Bell for a tour of Europe with a programme including Kevin Puts’ extraordinary Earth – a contribution to Joshua’s ‘Elements’ project, consisting of five new commissions shaped around water, air, fire, space and earth. Shaped around a four-note ostinato and the lyrical phrases that are traded between the violin and orchestra, Puts’ work is an example of the stability and endurance of this element, as well as acting as a reverent tribute to the planet Earth.

ASMF & Joshua Bell Europe

HCC Hannover Congress Centrum

Alte Oper

Museum Ludwig

Beethoven Hall (Beethovensaal)

Wiener Konzerthaus

Now that's what you call a well-rehearsed team! Joshua Bell has been Music Director of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields since 2011 and sees himself as primus inter pares. When necessary, the star violinist also leads the traditional orchestra as soloist in the violin concerto. This is not a given when Johannes Brahms's Violin Concerto is on the podium. The demanding work usually requires a conductor alongside the soloist – just like Robert Schumann's romantic First Symphony. But Joshua Bell and his Academy love the direct contact: "This orchestra knows me so well that they can interpret all my gestures. They know what I mean when I raise my eyebrows or bend my knees." Moreover, the highly virtuosic Brahms Concerto is considered a sonic symbol of the indissoluble bond between soloist and orchestra: it is the first violin concerto in music history of a symphonic nature.

Joshua Bell / Academy of St Martin in the Fields

After the director Herbert Fritsch captivated audiences with an extravagant symphony concert in 2024, this guest concept is now becoming a favourite tradition at the Komische Oper Berlin. This time, the spotlight falls on the charismatic actor Ulrich Matthes, who steps in as concert curator. Under the theme of ‘boldly stepping forth’, he launches the new year with a dazzling programme while offering personal insights into his favourite musical works. Here, the bright optimism of Mozart’s ‘Linz Symphony’ (1st movement) meets the reverent Adagio from Schumann’s Second Symphony. The jazz-infused energy of Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F major meets with Bernstein’s playful Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. And after his 2014 performance as a narrator at a symphony concert with the Komische Oper—who knows? This time, Ulrich Matthes just might take the leap into song...

Matthes in charge

Schiller Theater

Schubert’s 200-year-old Trout Quintet sounds new thanks to the energy and passion of the Fellows of your New World Symphony. Clarinetist Jon Manasse explores the "little miracles of self-reference" in Anna Clyne’s Strange Loops and the dreamy fairy tales of Robert Schumann’s trio. 

Schubert, Clyne & Schumann

New World Center

Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä leads Beethoven’s buoyant Seventh Symphony — always a thrill to hear live — alongside two contemporary works inspired by Beethoven. Yunchan Lim, the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn Competition, presents the enchanting, heartfelt Piano Concerto of Robert Schumann — a composer with the soul of a poet.

Klaus Mäkelä & Yunchan Lim

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Vienna University of Technology Orchestra, conducted by Črt Lasbaher, presents this benefit concert in support of Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Aid Vienna, Lower Austria, and Lower Burgenland. The concert is under the patronage of Burgtheater actor Michael Maertens, whose sister Miriam Maertens suffers from cystic fibrosis (CF).

BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE CYSTIC FIBROSIS AID VIENNA, LOWER AUSTRIA and NORTH BURGENLAND

Das MuTh

The last chamber music concert of 2025 will be full of folk rhythms, especially at the very end, thanks to Nikolai Kapustin’s lively Trio, Op. 86, which includes a jazzy flute part. The concert will also include works by Clara and Robert Schumann, to whom the entire 32nd season of the Chamber Music Series is dedicated.

Schumann. Hummel. Kapustin

The Professed House, Prague

Join an intimate musical dialogue between three chamber music masterpieces and the legendary pianist Richard Goode. Schumann’s Violin Sonata offers a reflective, intimate interplay of voices, then Mozart responds with a flurry of sparkle and humor. Beethoven’s septet offers a rich tapestry of contrasting timbres, each instrument contributing to a uniquely engaging dialogue. These works celebrate the art of musical conversation—an evening of thoughtful interplay, nuanced expression, and enduring connection.

Harmonic Conversations: Richard Goode Plays Mozart

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

"For the past few days, I've been pounding and trumpeting a lot inside me; I don't know what will come of it ," wrote Robert Schumann to his friend Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, announcing the first ideas for his new Symphony in C major. With the completion of the work, the Saxon Romantic composer had simultaneously overcome a severe depressive phase and was soon able to devote himself to his operatic project Genoveva . However, only the overture survived the repertoire. Ambitious and progressive, it is considered the best of the opera and surprises with its fresh gesture.

4th Philharmonic Concert / Borderline Experience

Volkstheater Rostock

Alexandra Flint – DMA Recital

Hamel Music Center

Endearing
What the Czech composer Dvořák did for the music of his homeland, the British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor achieved for the music of other peoples, including his own African ancestors: He reconciled it with the Romantic mainstream. His cantata "Hiawatha's Wedding-feast" achieved cult status in England; the unpretentious, endearing Christmas Overture incorporates popular songs such as "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "Good King Wenceslas."

2. Congress Park Symphony 2025/2026

Congress Park Hanau

Described by the Guardian as 'a top-ranking virtuoso', Volodos opens this performance with Schubert’s Sonata in A major D959, written during the last months of the composer’s life. He follows this with Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze, whose theme is based on a mazurka by Clara Wieck – the composer whom he would eventually marry. Lastly, Volodos will perform his own arrangement of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No 13.

Arcadi Volodos in Recital

Barbican Centre

The "Babylon Suite" by Munich composer Jörg Widmann sets the entire concert hall vibrating. The work is an orchestral excerpt from his opera "Babylon," which premiered in 2012 and advocates for a heterogeneous society. The "fascinating simultaneity" of cultures, according to Widmann, is reflected in the richly staffed orchestra with its effervescent energy and electrifying tension. The composer himself conducts this concert, as this all-rounder of the classical music scene works equally as a composer, clarinetist, and conductor. He is particularly passionate about the works of Robert Schumann. Therefore, he also performs his Second Symphony, in which fiery verve blends with whispering elegance.

Sounds of Life - Schumann's Second

In both song cycles performed by Petr Nekoranec and Ahmad Hedar, the subject is always a young man who embarks on a path paved with uncertainties out of love.

The heart has its reasons

Lille Opera

The British press once described him as an "incomparable keyboard poet": Arcadi Volodos has been considered one of the world's finest pianists since his sensational New York debut in 1996. His repertoire encompasses the most important works of piano literature, from Beethoven to Prokofiev, but he also devotes himself to less frequently performed pieces by Mompou, Lecuona, and de Falla. Recitals by this piano giant are events that audiences eagerly anticipate.

Piano recital Arcadi Volodos

Blaibach Concert Hall

Artists in Residence Lucas & Arthur Jussen will be performing chamber music, presenting captivating works for two pianos or pianists. The program ranges from the vibrant and moving Schubert movements to the rhythmic fire of Béla Bartók and the Romanticism of Robert Schumann. Bartók impressively showcased the secret affinity between the sound of two pianos and percussion in his famous sonata. For piano four-hands, however, the early Romantic Schubert left behind more than any other great composer: among other things, the most monumental sonata movement for piano four-hands we know: a stormily beginning, almost grim Allegro, which later inspired the publisher to title it "Life's Storms." Yet here, too, the heavens open – with one of those harmonic turns with which the late Schubert repeatedly transports his listeners to another world. The same is true of his single Adagio Trio movement, in which time seems to stand still.

Life's storms

Hessischer Rundfunk

Concert 3

La Jolla Woman's Club

Royal Orchestral Society

Royal Academy of Music

Mozart's piano trios are true gems of the Viennese Classical period: Light, elegant, and with a touch of humor, they showcase the brilliant side of the composer. His music radiates lightness, without ever being superficial - a delight for all who love classical music or want to discover it anew. Clara Schumann brings her own unique voice to the concert with her piano trio. Her music is poetic, passionate, and deeply moving - a glimpse into the emotional world of one of the most outstanding female musicians of the 19th century. Finally, Mendelssohn Bartholdy brings energy and drama to the room. His piano trio sparkles with melodious liveliness. It's no wonder that this work is among the most beloved in chamber music.

Mozart, Schumann, Mendelssohn

Delight in an experience rich with elegance and virtuosic beauty! Bach’s graceful Third Orchestral Suite, Schumann’s heartfelt Piano Concerto featuring world-renowned pianist Yefim Bronfman, and Mozart’s joyful and exuberant “Jupiter” Symphony combine for a timeless and radiant musical experience full of warmth and connection.

Masterworks III: Schumann Piano Concerto

Adler Theatre

Moline High School

Written in just two weeks, this lyrical work reaches straight to the heart. The cello sings, sighs, and soars, in this intimate conversation with the orchestra.

Natalie Clein plays Schumann

Smith Square Hall

Prepare for an extraordinary musical experience as two of the world’s most celebrated musicians, Hilary Hahn and Lang Lang, join forces for a one-night-only recital. A captivating journey through a curated program of classical masterworks, this exclusive event showcases the unparalleled virtuosity and artistry of these musical titans.

Hilary Hahn and Lang Lang

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Join the Duke Symphony Orchestra for an evening of profound emotional depth and stirring musical beauty in "The Exaltation of Tragedy"-a program that explores the majesty, sorrow, and transcendence born from the human condition through powerful orchestral works.

Duke Symphony Orchestra: "The Exaltation of Tragedy"

The much-cited inner turmoil of the Romantic artist—where could it find more genuine musical expression than in the works of Robert Schumann and Peter Tchaikovsky? Both were soul mates: When Tchaikovsky found in Schumann's music the "echo of the mysterious processes of our soul life," he was also describing a characteristic of his own work.

3rd Philharmonic Concert

Konzerthaus Dortmund

Once upon a time… Love Story. Love… a passionate and oh-so-human impulse. The common thread of our destinies. The one for which we live and die, the true driving force of all existence. For centuries, no subject has so inflamed minds as love. The Ensemble Émeraude, formed within the OPRL, explores its various aspects through works by German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Russian composers. The concert is passionately presented by Stéphane Dado, art and music historian and OPRL Project Manager.

Love Story

Philharmonic Hall of Liege

The soundscapes of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra's chamber concerts are as diverse as the characters of the musicians who perform in them. The demands in the orchestra pit are often characterized by the size and diversity of the voices. Chamber music, on the other hand, reduces this dimension to smaller ensembles and allows for intimate musical interaction. As in a dialog, different opinions come together, new ideas emerge and develop during the performance, opening up a creative space for spontaneous development.

Special Chamber Concert

Guest performance

Dvorana Union

Musikverein

Forum am Schlosspark

Gasteig HP8

Meistersingerhalle

In this concert, you can expect pure romance! Robert Schumann's Second Symphony practically glows with energy, emotion, and vitality. Written during a time of personal crises, the music tells of inner struggle, but also of triumph and hope. The finale in particular is a true fireworks display, making Schumann's genius and unwavering will to live impressively palpable. On the other hand, Frédéric Chopin's First Piano Concerto transports its listeners to a world full of elegance and passion. With virtuosic runs and enchanting melodies, Chopin demonstrates why he was celebrated as one of the greatest pianists and composers of his time. As the icing on the cake, an overture by Fanny Hensel, the sister of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who was equally as talented as her brilliant brother, will be performed.

Schumann and Chopin

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Antonín Dvořák found himself living in New York - a new world where new people arrived every day, the streets buzzed with life and the air was filled with promise. The Bohemian composer absorbed this energy and poured it into his final symphony: Symphony No. 9, better known as 'From the New World'. New influences, new styles, new ideas - the composer wove them together with his Bohemian folk roots, creating a work that transcends time and place.

Dvořák's Symphony No. 9

Amare

Isabelle Faust, one of the most impressive violinists of our time, sums it up: "It's always about conveying the magic of music in the moment." The current "Artist in Residence" of the WDR Symphony Orchestra presents Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Violin Concerto in this concert. The work has everything that makes the hearts of music fans beat faster: warming lyricism, breathtaking virtuosity, and intoxicating sonic splendor. Robert Schumann was a close friend of Mendelssohn. Isabelle Faust also interprets his exciting violin fantasy, before Schubert's mysterious "Unfinished" concludes the concert, conducted by the British conductor Andrew Manze.

Longing - Isabelle Faust & Mendelssohn

The renowned Fauré Quartet expands its sound palette with the Finnish double bass player Janne Saksala, soloist and principal double bass of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 2008. Together they will present a programme that brings together the highlights of Romantic chamber music. The focus is on Franz Schubert’s immortal »Forellenquintett«, whose effervescent liveliness and catchy melodies take on a new depth in the interpretation of this exceptional ensemble. This masterpiece is complemented by Schubert’s rarely performed »Adagio« and »Rondo Concertant« as well as Robert Schumann’s passionate piano quartet, a masterpiece of the genre that reflects the entire emotional world of Romanticism.

Fauré Quartet / Janne Saksala

Fauré Quartett / Janne Saksala

Jun Lee – DMA Recital

What connects all three compositions? The rebellious spirit, the premonition of new times, their courage!

Composer

Robert Schumann

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Sep 26, 2025 - Jun 5, 2026

Opera Workshop · Staatsoper Hamburg

Oct 23, 2025 - Feb 5, 2026

The Knights at Carnegie Hall · The Knights

Past events

Feb 2, 2026

Stephen Hough, piano · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Feb 1, 2026

The Romantics · Sedona Symphony

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