Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto

Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

It’s our final visit to the Schumann House in Leipzig - all week, we’ve been featuring works composed in Leipzig by the many composers who lived and visited there in the early years of Robert and Clara Schumann's marriage in the 1840s. They all visited the Schumann house (which still exists today as a school and museum). Today, we’ve more music by Niels Gade, plus Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto and parts of Felix Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor
Zee Zee (piano)
Suzhou Symphony Orchestra
Zhongshan Xu (conductor)

Nicolò Paganini
Caprice No 17 in E flat major
Liviu Prunaru (violin)

Nicolò Paganini
Caprice No 23 in E flat major
Liviu Prunaru (violin)

Niels Gade
Hamlet Overture
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martijn Dendievel (conductor)

Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream:
Overture
Scherzo
Nocturne
Intermezzo
Wedding March
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Minasi (conductor)

Franz Liszt
Dante Sonata
(Book 2 - Italy, Years of Pilgrimage)
Lukas Sternath (piano)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in E flat for violin, viola and cello, K563
Tim Crawford (violin)
Timothy Ridout (viola)
Tim Posner (piano)

Robert Schumann
Overture, Scherzo and Finale
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Michele Spotti (conductor)