Discovering Masterpieces – Schumann

Discovering Masterpieces – Schumann

Watch the series ‘Discovering Masterpieces’: Your audio-visual concert guide to the great masterpieces of classical music. The series brings you 20 half-hour documentaries on 20 classical masterpieces: acclaimed experts, famous soloists and outstanding conductors take you on a journey back to the time and place of composition. In today’s documentary, Robert Schumann’s ‘Concerto for Piano and Orchestra’ is discussed. This famous piano concerto is not a traditional virtuoso showpiece but a cooperative venture between the soloist and the orchestra, transporting the piano concerto into the realm of symphonic music. The German musicologist Wulf Konold explains the special features of the composition using concert footage of the Argentinean piano virtuoso Martha Argerich with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under the baton of Riccardo Chailly.