Martin Helmchen returned to Orchestra Hall on Sunday afternoon for a solo piano recital marked by many of the same qualities noted at his local debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra two years ago.

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As if to avoid shining too much limelight on the individual – hard in a concerto, by its show-off nature, but no doubt advisable in Soviet years – Shostakovich gives piano and orchestra well-balanced ...

The world isn’t short of brilliant concert pianists — it’s sometimes hard to turn around without knocking one over — but Martin Helmchen stands out even in that remarkable crowd. Still in his early ...

When the solo piano makes its first entrance in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, it does so on a figure familiar to every childhood piano-lesson veteran: an ascending C minor scale in both hands, one ...

Czechmate: Martin Helmchen, the restrained soloist for an evening of Middle European music Anyone heading to Glyndebourne this summer for the new production of The Cunning Little Vixen got a sneak ...

Occasional untidiness robbed Beethoven’s Ninth of vitality, but Schumann’s piano concerto with Martin Helmchen was bright and luminous Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and especially the main theme of its ...

Part of the BBC Proms.Award-winning German pianist Martin Helmchen makes his Proms debut as soloist in Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto, a vast work full of mercurial mood swings and technical demands.

Poor Schumann was already in decline by the time he wrote the first two in 1851, though you wouldn't necessarily know it; the white-heat melodic and rhythmic inspiration of the earlier works has given ...

The 1860 Bechstein pianoforte featured in the present recording is apparently a model identical to one of Franz Liszt’s preferred instruments. While its sonorities sound musty in relation to ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 Martin Helmchen, Piano Berlin German Symphony Orchestra Andrew Manze, Conductor Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra Martin Helmchen, Piano ...

This intriguing programme moves backwards and forwards from Bach via the Romantic period of Robert Schumann (whose Novelettes provide regular points of return) and his wife Clara, as well as Chopin ...