One of the most virtuosic pianists of the 19th century, German composer and performer Clara Schumann captured the spirit of her time with the contemplative melodies of the 3 Romances and the adventurous, rumbling cadence of the Piano Trio in G Minor. There's a deep pathos in songs like “Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen” and “Er ist gekommen”, which gesture forward to those that Mahler would write 50 years later. Of course, for such a piano innovator, it all comes back to that instrument: The Piano Concerto in A Minor is as grandly dramatic and playfully lyrical as anything her husband, Robert Schumann, wrote.