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This recording is an exploration of Robert Helps’s ‘subtle sound world’ (ClassicsToday.com on Naxos 8559199), and his shared history with Spectrum Concerts Berlin. Highly regarded as a ‘musician’s musician’, Helps is featured as both composer and pianist. Postlude is suffused with an atmosphere of reminiscence, and the flow of ‘endless melody’ in the Piano Quartet is comparable to Scriabin. Associations with the Second Viennese School are heard in the poetic Quintet and the virtuoso Fantasy, while the two Piano Trios mark the stylistic boundaries of his career. Helps’s Shall We Dance for piano (CD 2, Track 12) was among his last recordings.
Robert Helps: Postlude
Postlude
Robert Helps: Fantasy
Fantasy
Robert Helps: Piano Quartet
I. Prelude
II. Intermezzo
III. Scherzo
IV. Postlude
V. Coda - The Players Gossip
Robert Helps: Duo
Duo
Robert Helps: Quintet
I. Moving
II. Relentlessly (without inflection)
III. Dolce e legato
Robert Helps: Piano Trio No. 1
I. Mesto
II. Molto marcato - Molto allegro
III. Maestoso
Robert Helps: Piano Trio No. 2
I. Duets: Allegro
II. Horizons: Austere, but intense
III. Toccata frustrata
Robert Helps: 6 Lieder, Op. 71: No. 4. Schilflied (arr. R. Helps for piano)
6 Lieder, Op. 71: No. 4. Schilflied (arr. R. Helps for piano)
Robert Helps: Love is a Sickness Full of Woes (arr. R. Helps for piano)
Love is a Sickness Full of Woes (arr. R. Helps for piano)
Francis Poulenc: Intermezzo in A flat major, FP 118
Intermezzo in A flat major, FP 118
Leopold Godowsky: 53 Studies on the Chopin etudes
No. 45 in E major (1st version on Chopin's Nouvelle Etude No. 2)
No. 12 in G flat major (6th version on Chopin's Op. 10, No. 5)
Robert Helps: Shall We Dance
Shall We Dance
John Ireland: The Darkened Valley
The Darkened Valley
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Postlude