Joyous Appreciation Schumann's Piano Quartet and Piano Quintet - heard by ROBERT ANDERSON ''... all the requisite drive and poise.''

The last months of 1842 were inordinately busy in the Schumann household. It was Schumann's chamber music year, and towards the end of it he had many a sleepless night because of the abundance of music teeming through his brain. His wife Clara reported that the last week of September had passed quietly, which only meant that Robert could work with the greater concentration...

ROBERT SCHUMANN

ALEXANDER MELNIKOV

HARMONIA MUNDI

PIANO MUSIC

CHAMBER MUSIC