{"id":2365425,"date":"2026-04-09T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2365425"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:59:23","slug":"wpr-music-new-album-of-the-week-schumann-violin-concerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wpr-music-new-album-of-the-week-schumann-violin-concerto\/","title":{"rendered":"WPR Music new album of the week: ‘Schumann Violin Concerto’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When she was just 11 years old, Japanese-born American violinist Midori<\/a> made a stunning debut concert with the New York Philharmonic. Since then, she\u2019s released dozens of recordings, covering the violin repertoire from Bach and Beethoven to Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and beyond. But as she recently observed, one romantic concerto was conspicuously absent from her repertoire: Robert Schumann\u2019s. Her newest album remedies this, and adds chamber works by both members of music\u2019s first power couple: Robert and Clara Schumann.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason why Midori might have overlooked Robert Schumann\u2019s Violin Concerto in D Minor: he wrote it in the autumn of 1853, when his mental and physical health were rapidly declining, and the piece often comes across as challenging and diffident, without the flashy pyrotechnics that romantic concertos were known for. After Robert was institutionalized the following year, Clara Schumann and the work\u2019s dedicatee, violinist Joseph Joachim, decided to keep the concerto to themselves, fearing that it would be judged harshly by critics. Joachim even went so far as to declare that it shouldn\u2019t be published until 1956 \u2013 a hundred years after the composer\u2019s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That idea prevailed until the 1930s, when interest reawakened in the \u201clost\u201d concerto thanks to, of all things, a s\u00e9ance that allegedly made contact with Robert Schumann\u2019s spirit. It was finally premiered in 1937, and has been recorded occasionally since then, with violinists taking care to resolve the many lingering errors in the manuscript. On this new recording, Midori gives Schumann\u2019s concerto a thoughtful reading, joined by the Lucerne Festival Strings under the direction of conductor Daniel Dodds. The performance shines in its more introspective parts, like the intimate second movement:<\/p>\n

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