Symphonies 3 & 4

Album by Robert Schumann & Stavanger Symfoniorkester & Jan Willem de Vriend

Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 are orchestral works by the German composer Robert Schumann, composed in 1850 and 1841 respectively (the Fourth was later revised in 1851). They contrast the Third's broad, ceremonial textures and evocative Rhineland-inspired motifs with the Fourth's more compact classical structures and adventurous Romantic harmony, and together they illustrate Schumann's efforts to reconcile Classical symphonic models with Romantic expressiveness during his mature period.