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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)
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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)
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This recording is an exploration of Robert Helps’s ‘subtle sound world’ (ClassicsToday.com on Naxos 8.559199), 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.
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Disc
1
Helps, Robert
Postlude
Fantasy
Piano Quartet
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II. Intermezzo
00:02:22
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7.
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V. Coda - The Players Gossip
00:02:01
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Duo
Quintet
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10.
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II. Relentlessly (without inflection)
00:02:24
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11.
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III. Dolce e legato
00:05:37
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Disc
2
Helps, Robert
Piano Trio No. 1
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2.
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II. Molto marcato - Molto allegro
00:04:18
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3.
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III. Maestoso
00:04:41
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Piano Trio No. 2
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4.
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I. Duets: Allegro
00:03:06
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5.
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II. Horizons: Austere, but intense
00:06:47
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6.
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III. Toccata frustrata
00:02:30
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Mendelssohn, Felix
Helps, Robert, arranger(s)
6 Lieder, Op. 71: No. 4. Schilflied (arr. R. Helps for piano)
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7.
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6 Lieder, Op. 71: No. 4. Schilflied (arr. R. Helps for piano)
00:03:53
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Ireland, John
Helps, Robert, arranger(s)
Love is a Sickness Full of Woes (arr. R. Helps for piano)
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8.
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Love is a Sickness Full of Woes (arr. R. Helps for piano)
00:02:59
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Poulenc, Francis
Intermezzo in A-Flat Major, FP 118
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9.
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Intermezzo in A - Flat Major, FP 118
00:04:18
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Godowsky, Leopold
53 Studies on the Chopin etudes (excerpts)
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10.
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No. 45 in E Major (1st version on Chopin's Nouvelle Etude No. 2)
00:05:52
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11.
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No. 12 in G - Flat Major (6th version on Chopin's Op. 10, No. 5)
00:03:06
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Helps, Robert
Shall We Dance
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12.
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Shall We Dance
00:11:20
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Ireland, John
The Darkened Valley
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13.
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The Darkened Valley
00:03:46
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Total Playing Time:
01:57:50
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Composer(s):
Godowsky, Leopold; Helps, Robert; Ireland, John; Mendelssohn, Felix; Poulenc, Francis
Arranger(s):
Helps, Robert
Ensemble(s):
ATOS Trio; Spectrum Concerts Berlin
Artist(s):
Dodge, Frank S.; Hehn, Annette von; Helps, Robert; Hoppe, Thomas; Niskala, Naomi
Label: Naxos Series: American Classics Genre: Chamber Music; Instrumental Period: 20th Century; Romantic
Catalogue No:
8.559696-97
Barcode:
636943969625
Physical Release: 09/2011
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