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Karl‐Heinz Steffens: Schumann's First Symphony

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Discover the truth in the assertion that behind every great man is a great woman. Without Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, the true scope of their respective husband and brother's gifts are unlikely to have been realised.

Karl‐Heinz Steffens conducts the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic in Schumann's First Symphony, an explosion of pure joy that may be laid at Clara's door in more than one way. Schumann's fiancée, herself a famous musician, prompted the composer's turn to orchestral composition. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's works are often overlooked now, as during her lifetime, in favor of those of her younger brother, but the sample offered here — an exquisitely balanced overture — shows that the classical canon is the poorer for suppressing, and then ignoring her.

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