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HELPS, R.: Chamber Music with Piano - Piano Trios / Piano Quartet / Quintet / Duo (Helps in Berlin) (Helps, Atos Trio, Spectrum Concerts Berlin)

ROBERT HELPS

Postlude

8:43

Solo: Bernhard Krug Soloist

Chamber: Spectrum Concerts Berlin

Fantasy

6:57

Solo: Annette von Hehn Soloist

Piano Quartet

I. Prelude

5:32

Solo: Ronald Carbone Soloist

Chamber: Spectrum Concerts Berlin

II. Intermezzo

2:22

Solo: Ronald Carbone Soloist

Chamber: Spectrum Concerts Berlin

III. Scherzo

3:19

Solo: Ronald Carbone Soloist

Chamber: Spectrum Concerts Berlin

IV. Postlude

4:38

Solo: Ronald Carbone Soloist

Chamber: Spectrum Concerts Berlin

V. Coda - The Players Gossip

2:01

Solo: Ronald Carbone Soloist

Chamber: Spectrum Concerts Berlin

Duo

8:10

Solo: Frank S. Dodge Soloist

Quintet

I. Moving

5:54

Solo: Frank S. Dodge Soloist

Chamber: Spectrum Concerts Berlin

10.

II. Relentlessly (without inflection)

2:24

Solo: Frank S. Dodge Soloist

Chamber: Spectrum Concerts Berlin

11.

III. Dolce e legato

5:37

Solo: Frank S. Dodge Soloist

Chamber: Spectrum Concerts Berlin

Piano Trio No. 1

I. Mesto

5:37

Solo: Pablo Held Trio Ensemble

Chamber: Pablo Held Trio

II. Molto marcato - Molto allegro

4:18

Solo: Pablo Held Trio Ensemble

Chamber: Pablo Held Trio

III. Maestoso

4:41

Solo: Pablo Held Trio Ensemble

Chamber: Pablo Held Trio

Piano Trio No. 2

I. Duets: Allegro

3:06

Solo: Pablo Held Trio Ensemble

Chamber: Pablo Held Trio

II. Horizons: Austere, but intense

6:47

Solo: Pablo Held Trio Ensemble

Chamber: Pablo Held Trio

III. Toccata frustrata

2:30

Solo: Pablo Held Trio Ensemble

Chamber: Pablo Held Trio

6 Lieder, Op. 71: No. 4. Schilflied (arr. R. Helps for piano)

3:53

Solo: Robert Helps Soloist

Love is a Sickness Full of Woes (arr. R. Helps for piano)

2:59

Solo: Robert Helps Soloist

FRANCIS POULENC

Intermezzo in A flat major, FP 118

4:18

Solo: Robert Helps Soloist

LEOPOLD GODOWSKY

53 Studies on the Chopin etudes

10.

No. 45 in E major (1st version on Chopin's Nouvelle Etude No. 2)

5:52

Solo: Robert Helps Soloist

11.

No. 12 in G flat major (6th version on Chopin's Op. 10, No. 5)

3:06

Solo: Robert Helps Soloist

ROBERT HELPS

12.

Shall We Dance

11:20

Solo: Robert Helps Soloist

JOHN IRELAND

13.

The Darkened Valley

3:46

Solo: Robert Helps Soloist

[Robert Helps’] music, dissonant with tonal moments, is finely wrought and holds the listener’s interest."

Barry Kilpatrick - American Record Guide - January 2012

Both of Robert Helps’s formidable artistic gifts are represented on this revealing two-disc collection. There’s the composer of piquant and poetic chamber music, and there’s the pianist who gave supple life to his own works, as well as pieces by other composers. These complementary aspects paint a portrait of a bold musician with the facility to transform and illuminate in myriad styles his immersion in the past also can be heard on this collection in shapely and eloquent live performances Helps was no imitator…the music is always suffused with distinctive clarity, vehemence and pensive drama meticulously detailed performances by the ATOS Trio and an array of splendid colleagues."

Donald Rosenberg - Gramophone magazine - April 2012

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