Family Ties: The Schumanns & The Mendelssohns

And when you hear their music played together it evokes a whole, wonderfully vivid world of love, friendship and imagination without limits. The distinguished Ukrainian conductor Natalia Ponomarchuk follows Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn from their childhood home in Berlin to the moors and mists of 19th-century Scotland. Pianist Alexander Melnikov then explores the relationship between Clara and Robert Schumann – a husband and wife united in their devotion to the piano, to art and to each other.