Browse: Building a Library, Schumann (composer)

The Zehetmair Quartet's coupling focuses the music's alternating wildness and fragility with altogether unique perception. Theirs is an agitated, combustible and loving view of Schumann, a credible... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Gerhaher twins the Eichendorff Liederkreis with Schumann's four settings of poems by Hans Christian Andersen - and reveals, in minutely sensitive, sometimes harrowing performances their emotional... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

With an almost ideal balance between piano and strings, the variety of articulation in their playing brings a marvellous textural variety to the full-blooded writing in the outer movements of... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Lewis has a natural empathy for Schumann, revelling in the first movement's impulsive changes of mood and projecting wonderfully calm inner reflection at the outset of the third. He emphasises... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Supreme artistry. — Pianist Magazine More…

Hamelin scampers and thunders by turns but not once does he upstage the string-players. That this disc simply gets better and better on repeated listening is ample recommendation. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2009 More…

if you want the living definition of virtuoso pedalling, listen to Andras Schiff in the 'Aria' movement of Schumann's F sharp minor Sonata...It's the most impressive realisation of Schumann's... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…