Rarely beautiful: The pianist Luisa Imorde plays an early work by Clara Schumann.
Looking closely helps. Culture editor looks through inbox. A new recording of Schumann’s piano concerto? Oh no, how many should that be by now? The two thousand seven hundred and ninety-third? But then the error becomes apparent. The piano concerto is by no means the so often recorded one in A minor by Schumann, Robert. But in the same key of Schumann, Clara. A youth work that Clara Schumann, then born Wieck, completed in 1834 as a 15-year-old and premiered a year later in the Leipzig Gewandhaus. The conductor was Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.