No matter the genre — be it classical, jazz or rock — musicians of merit play cadenzas. When the cadenzas being played are unpublished ones written by Clara Schumann in 1855 and discovered tucked away ...

The Sinfonia da Camera, conducted by Ian Hobson, opened its 2025-26 season on Oct. 18. The music offered was by Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann, including Schumann’s Piano Concerto written for his ...

With a performance at Richardson Auditorium under its belt, Sinfonia has grown from a backup to the Princeton University Orchestra to a full-fledged orchestra of its own. After performing for years in ...

Thomas Zehetmair's effectiveness in his three roles - as soloist, conductor, and leader of the eponymous quartet - are spotlighted in this pair of releases. Zehetmair's performance of the Brahms ...

The concert saw the start of their Brahms and Schumann symphonic cycle with their chief conductor, Thomas Zehetmair. Zehetmair is himself a compelling figure. Angular and jerky, and looking like he's ...

The Northern Sinfonia under the baton of Thomas Zehetmair last night opened its new season at The Sage Gateshead with the first instalment of The Romantic Symphony. The series will take in the ...

Wexford Sinfonia are coming over all romantic these days! For the talented troop of Wexford musicians are working on Schumann's piano concerto in A minor, along with a Weber overture for their summer ...

His eyes are closed, his head lowered in a pose of deep concentration — that is how we encounter Israeli-born cellist Gavriel Lipkind on the covers of his two recently released CDs. Even before we ...

Northern Sinfonia audiences knew they were getting someone special when the Austrian violinist and conductor, Thomas Zehetmair, was appointed as the orchestra's music director last year. If ...

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