Enjoy a little bit of Schumann's Cello Concerto with my Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Edgar Moreau from our season opener last fall ! Looking forward to performing it again with Edgar and The Philadelphia Orchestra at the end of the month ✨ | Nathalie Stutzmann

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

115K views · 4.3K reactions |  Let’s take a moment to imagine what it would be like to be the audience of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées watching virtuoso cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the Orchestre National de France, and the legendary maestro Leonard Bernstein interpreting Schumann's Cello Concerto! How would you describe it?  https://bit.ly/3sBD1Tj | medici.tv | Facebook