The great Piano Concerto was composed here, the Second Symphony, more songs, but from the late 1840s it was clear that Schumann was becoming increasingly unstable. In 1850 he accepted the post of ...
Romanze (no 3b), from Rosamunde, D.797; Die Forelle, D.550 (orch. Benjamin Britten); Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118 (orch. Max Reger); Du bist die Ruh’, D.776 (orch ...
On a rare visit to the UK, the Russian pianist's Schumann lingers in the memory long after Daniel Harding conducts Mahler's Seventh Symphony.