<p>Works by Schumann performed by Miriam Fried, violin and Jonathan Biss, piano on January 15, 2017.</p> <ul> <li>Schumann, Robert: Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 121</li> <li>Schumann, Robert: Gesange der Fruhe, Op. 133</li> </ul> <p>For many years, musicologists and music-lovers have tried to understand what it was that led to Robert Schumann’s troubling symptoms and ultimate death at age 46 in a psychiatric hospital. And for years, writers dismissed many of his later works as the incoherent products of a mind in decline.</p> <p>But, more recently, many have come to appreciate Schumann’s later works—two of which we’ll hear on this podcast: his second violin sonata, in D minor, and “Gesänge der Frühe,” or “Songs of Dawn,” a five-movement work for piano—and one of the last pieces Schumann published before admitting himself to the psychiatric hospital where he ultimately died.</p> <p>On this recording, we’ll heard pianist Jonathan Biss in both works. In the sonata, he is joined by violinist Miriam Fried.</p>