Editing Robert Schumann (section)

==Recordings==
All of Schumann's major works and most of the minor ones have been recorded.<ref name=march1>March ''et al'', pp. 1133–1150</ref><ref>Kapp, pp. 242 and 247</ref> From the 1920s his music has had a prominent place in the catalogues. In the 1920s [[Hans Pfitzner]] recorded the symphonies, and other early recordings were conducted by [[Georges Enescu]] and Toscanini.<ref>[https://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/login "Robert Schumann"], Naxos Music Library. Retrieved 17 May 2024 {{subscription required}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520173541/https://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/login |date=20 May 2024 }}</ref>  Large-scale performances with modern symphony orchestras have been recorded under conductors including [[Herbert von Karajan]], [[Wolfgang Sawallisch]] and [[Rafael Kubelík]],<ref name=m1138>March ''et al'', pp. 1138–1139</ref> and from the mid-1990s smaller ensembles such as the [[Orchestre des Champs-Élysées]] with [[Philippe Herreweghe]] and the [[Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique]] with [[John Eliot Gardiner]] have recorded [[Historically informed performance|historically informed]] readings of Schumann's orchestral music.<ref name=m1138/><ref>"Robert Schumann: Complete Symphonies", Harmonia Mundi, 2007 {{oclc|1005955733}}</ref>

The songs featured in the recorded repertoire from the early days of the gramophone, with performances by singers such as [[Elisabeth Schumann]] (no relation to the composer),<ref>Gammond, p. 191</ref> [[Friedrich Schorr]], [[Alexander Kipnis]] and [[Richard Tauber]], followed in a later generation by [[Elisabeth Schwarzkopf]] and [[Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau]].<ref>Sackville-West and Shawe-Taylor, pp. 688–689; and March ''et al'', p. 1148</ref> Although in 1955 the authors of ''The Record Guide'' expressed regret that so few of Schumann's songs were available on record,<ref>Sackville-West and Shawe-Taylor, p. 687</ref> by the early twenty-first century every song was on disc. A complete set was published in 2010 with the songs in chronological order of composition; the pianist [[Graham Johnson (musician)|Graham Johnson]] partnered a range of singers including [[Ian Bostridge]], [[Simon Keenlyside]], [[Felicity Lott]], [[Christopher Maltman]], [[Ann Murray]] and [[Christine Schäfer]].<ref name=gj>Johnson, pp. 5–24</ref> Pianists for other recordings of Schumann {{lang|de|Lieder}} have included Gerald Moore, [[Dalton Baldwin]], [[Erik Werba]], [[Jörg Demus]], [[Geoffrey Parsons (pianist)|Geoffrey Parsons]], and more recently [[Roger Vignoles]], [[Irwin Gage]] and [[Ulrich Eisenlohr]].<ref>March ''et al'', pp. 1147–1149; and [https://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/login "Robert Schumann"], Naxos Music Library. Retrieved 17 May 2024 {{subscription required}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520051042/https://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/login |date=20 May 2024 }}</ref>

Schumann's solo piano music has remained core repertoire for pianists; there have been numerous recordings of major works played by performers from [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]], [[Alfred Cortot]], [[Myra Hess]] and [[Walter Gieseking]] to [[Alfred Brendel]], [[Vladimir Ashkenazy]], [[Martha Argerich]], [[Stephen Hough]], [[Arcadi Volodos]] and [[Lang Lang]].<ref>March ''et al'', pp. 1144–1147; and [https://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/login "Robert Schumann"], Naxos Music Library. Retrieved 17 May 2024 {{subscription required}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520051042/https://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/login |date=20 May 2024 }}</ref> The chamber works are also well represented in the recording catalogues. In 2023 ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]'' magazine singled out among recent issues recordings of the Piano Quintet by [[Leif Ove Andsnes]] and the [[Artemis Quartet]], String Quartets 1 and 3 by the [[Thomas Zehetmair|Zehetmair Quartet]] and the Piano Trios by Andsnes, [[Christian Tetzlaff]] and [[Tanja Tetzlaff]].<ref>[https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/robert-schumann-the-gramophone-award-winning-recordings "Robert Schumann: 12 Gramophone Award-winning Recordings"], ''Gramophone'', 15 May 2023 {{registration required}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240517100712/https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/robert-schumann-the-gramophone-award-winning-recordings |date=17 May 2024 }}</ref>

Schumann's only opera, ''Genoveva'', has been recorded. A 1996 complete set conducted by Harnoncourt with [[Ruth Ziesak]] in the title role followed earlier recordings under [[Gerd Albrecht]] and [[Kurt Masur]].<ref>[https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/schumann-genoveva "Schumann Genoveva"], ''Gramophone'', January 1998 {{registration required}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240517100712/https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/schumann-genoveva |date=17 May 2024 }}</ref> Recordings of {{lang|de|Das Paradies und die Peri}} include sets conducted by Gardiner<ref name="march"/> and Rattle.<ref name=lso/> Among the recordings of {{lang|de|Szenen aus Goethes Faust}} is one conducted by [[Benjamin Britten]] in 1972, with Fischer-Dieskau as Faust and [[Elizabeth Harwood]] as Gretchen.<ref>Stuart, Philip. [http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/discography/decca.html ''Decca Classical, 1929–2009''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150604115151/http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/discography/decca.html |date=4 June 2015 }}, AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music. Retrieved 30 May 2024</ref>