Schumann’s Symphonies – A TV essay by Klaus Lindemann featuring Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic performing Robert Schumann’s symphonies

Produced in 1987, the one-hour television special "Schumann's Symphonies - An Essay by Klaus Lindemann on the Schumann Cycle with Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra" explores Schumann's romanticism in the light of the literature and visual arts of the times. The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich - the epitome of German romanticism - provide revealing parallels with Schumann, as well as the works of William Turner, Delacroix, the Nazarene School, Constable, Géricault¿ "With Schumann," says Lindemann, "we stand in the full flowering of Romanticism and gaze from one peak to another." In addition to many new insights on Schumann and his relationship to the visual and literary arts of his day, the program also contains many excerpts from Schumann's four symphonies.