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Helmut Deutsch

Helmut Deutsch

Born: 24th December 1945, Vienna

Nationality: Austrian

Born in Vienna in 1945, Helmut Deutsch is widely recognised as one of the finest lieder pianist working today. He studied and later taught piano, composition and musicology in his native city, winning the Vienna Composition Prize; his first long-term lieder relationship was with the soprano Irmgard Seefried, since which he has worked with many of the world’s finest singers including Matthias Goerne, Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Hermann Prey, Mauro Peter, Dietrich Henschel, Angelika Kirchschlager and Hans Hotter.

His discography includes Winterreise, Die schìöne Müllerin and a Gramophone Award-winning album of Strauss Lieder with his former student Kaufmann on Harmonia Mundi (‘Deutsch elicits wonderfully rich sonorities in the accompaniment of these settings – Opera Today), Liszt songs with Damrau on Erato (‘his insights into the atmosphere and psychology of these works are as compelling as Damrau's’ – Classic FM), and Brahms’s Liebeslieder-Waltzer) with Barbara Bonney, Anne Sofie von Otter, Kurt Streit, Olaf Bär and Bengt Forsberg.

Find out more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Deutsch

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  • Christian Immler on Be Still My Heart

    16th Mar 2026by Katherine Cooper

    In the run-up to the release of Raphaël Pichon's recording of the St John Passion (on which he sings the bass arias and Pilatus), the German singer discusses a recent passion-project of his own - a beguiling recital of songs by Wilhelm Grosz and Robert Gund with pianist Helmut Deutsch on Alpha Classics.

    Classical Interview

  • Jonas Kaufmann's Doppelgänger

    5th Sep 2025by Katherine Cooper

    The German tenor and his regular recital-partner Helmut Deutsch are on peak form in these 2020 accounts of Schumann's Dichterliebe and Kerner-Lieder, supplemented by a glimpse of a very young Kaufmann in the former cycle (and, in the case of the physical product, a DVD of Claus Guth's extraordinary staging of Schubert's Schwanengesang).

    Classical Recording of the Week
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