Violinist Midori — artistic director of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute program for piano and strings — presents an album of works by Robert and Clara Schumann with pianist Özgür Aydin and the Festival Strings Lucerne under the direction of Daniel Dodds. Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D Minor was composed in 1853 but withheld from publication for more than eighty years after Clara and Joseph Joachim questioned its place within Robert’s legacy. Long clouded by its troubled history and a problematic 1937 premiere, the concerto has only recently gained recognition as a powerful and distinctive late work. The program also includes Robert Schumann’s Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102, and Three Romances, Op. 94 – lyrical miniatures from his remarkably productive year of 1849, alongside Clara Schumann’s Three Romances, Op. 22, dedicated to Joachim and now fully restored to the repertoire after decades of neglect.