There's a good reason for spreading the standard orchestral repertoire out across several seasons, and it has to do with more than just placating music critics. It also helps protect performers from ...

With the truly great composers – and I count Schumann among them – there is that abiding sense of music being created in the playing of it. It is, in effect, like a stream of consciousness in which we ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christoph von Dohnányi, the Philharmonia's honorary conductor for life, is often at his best in Richard Strauss, and his performance of Ein Heldenleben, part of the orchestra's series to mark the ...

Martin Helmchen was born in Berlin in 1982. He received his first piano lessons at the age of six. From 1993 until graduating from school in 2000 he was a student of Galina Iwanzowa at the Hanns ...

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 ...

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 ...