Schumann’s Year of Song in 1840 was inspired by his courtship and marriage to Clara, a happiness that is transparent in the Leider and in the glorious piano quartet that he wrote for her in 1842.

Schumann, Lieder

Jennifer Johnson Cano, soprano
Gloria Chien, piano

Schumann, Piano Quartet in E-flat

Gloria Chien, piano
Soovin Kim, violin
Misha Amory, viola
Zlatomir Fung, cello