(1815-56). 1: The Last Years in Dresden (1848-9). Schumann's later music is sometimes overshadowed by the songs and piano music of his earlier years. Yet from the late 1840s, he produced a stream of works in a number of different forms-opera, cantata, symphony, chamber music and religious music - which deserve re-examination. With Donald Macleod.
Overture: Genoveva Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt Soireestucke, Op 73 Robert Plane (clarinet), Sophia Rahman (piano) Requiem for Mignon
Soloists, COE, conductor Claudio Abbado Konzertstucke in F
Robert Montgomery , Gavin Edwards ,
Susan Dent and Robert Maskell (horns),
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Producer Andrew Lyle