Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov begin their project to record all of Schumann’s concertos and piano trios using gut strings and a piano of Schumann’s time (a Streicher of ...

Did you watch President Obama’s first inauguration? If so, you probably remember a very cold but affecting musical performance featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and a young ...

Brahms and his friendship with Clara Schumann have been the subject of much recent attention, leaving Robert Schumann sidelined, so the Gould Piano Trio’s weekend of his chamber music helped to ...

Though all have flourishing solo careers, violinist Isabelle Faust, pianist Alexander Melnikov and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras are an established piano trio in all but name. In fact, they combine with ...

This is the second instalment of a period-instruments series pairing Schumann’s concertos and piano trios. Alexander Melnikov plays an 1837 Erard in the Piano Concerto, an 1847 Streicher in the Trio ...

Recording schemes that might seem inspired in theory sometimes come unstuck in practice. The idea of Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov recording Schumann’s three piano trios ...

Although the Horszowski are mostly attentive to textual detail, there are one or two passages where they miss something important. Where, say, are the hairpin crescendo-decrescendos in the Trio of Op ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor Alexander Melnikov, Piano Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Robert Schumann, Composer Piano Trio No. 2 Isabelle Faust, Violin Robert Schumann, ...

Received wisdom has it that Schumann’s late works fall off creatively, mirroring the composer’s failing mental health. These period instrument performances think differently. I’ve never heard quite ...