These two concertos by Schumann constitute the true quintessence of German Romanticism: this is music characterised from start to finish by a sense of going beyond formal limits and by a spirit of fantasy, with the solo instrument both the partner and the confidant of the orchestra. With the complicity of two exceptional soloists, Christophe Coin and Andreas Staier, Philippe Herreweghe here gives us the opportunity to rediscover two masterpieces played on period instruments.