We're spending this hour exploring the music of three intimate friends, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms. To open the hour, two short pieces by Clara Wieck Schumann: The Athena ...

A few weeks ago, in an online poll by BBC Music Magazine, Clara Schumann was voted the greatest composer of all time, beating out, among others, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and her husband, Robert. How ...