🤩🎶👏 Enjoy Schumann's soulful Cello Concerto now on BBC iPlayer with our dream team - cellist Steven Isserlis, conductor Chloé van Soeterstède and musicians of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 🎧 | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

🤩🎶👏 Enjoy Schumann's soulful Cello Concerto now on BBC iPlayer with our dream team - cellist Steven Isserlis, conductor Chloé van Soeterstède and musicians of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 🎧 | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

About Schumann & markings... Returning to Schumann for two performances in June, I am again amazed by the rich and dense texture and most imaginative storytelling of the opening page of his concerto. In the 20th century, the concerto was often performed in a very slow tempo, labelling it melancholic, pensive, doubting. If you take the markings halfway seriously though, the tempo of 130 suggests something entirely different. His original tempo marking of 150, which was later corrected to 130 afte

One of the Romantic era’s great cello works - Schumann’s Cello Concerto. ✨🎶 Here's an extract from our performance at the Royal Festival Hall in 2021, performed by Steven Isserlis and Simone Young - with today marking the anniversary of the composer's death in 1856. 🎶 Love Schumann? Hear this masterpiece live in our 80th Birthday Season with Kian Soltani in Leicester and London. 🎟️ Book now: https://philharmonia.co.uk/whats-on/ #Schumann #CelloConcerto #KianSoltani #Philharmonia80 #ClassicalM