Martin Helmchen
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5
Martin Helmchen (piano)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Andrew Manze
Helmchen really brings out the different approaches Beethoven took in these concertos. A sturdy, reliable recording of two great works. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Beethoven250 Award
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Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas Vol. 3
Sonatas 8-10
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Martin Helmchen (piano)
Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen are an outstanding team, whose latest release brings their three-disc survey to an uplifting conclusion...Finest of all is the reading of the elusive... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Chamber Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Chamber Music
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Helmchen is drawn to the hybrid capabilities of his instrument, which stimulate fresh insights into how Bach’s Partitas can be played and experienced. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Instrumental
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Helmchen’s commanding pianism and perceptive musicianship hold their own in a competitive catalogue…[he] imbues the music’s question-and-answer trajectory [in Variations 13] with a sense of... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet
RecommendedJulian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen, Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
There is much to enjoy in this highly perfumed Schubert disc…Prégardien’s relatively light tenor makes the most of the intimacy to which these brief masterpieces are well suited…At the piano,... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2021, Nouveauté
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
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Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas
Sonatas 1 - 4
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Martin Helmchen (piano)
How elegantly unforced these works come over today. Zimmermann’s sound is light, flexible, and finely shaded, with Martin Helmchen delivering effortless virtuosity. The opening of the First... —
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Their music-making is uniquely bonded from the start, an easeful gliding into the simple language of the Shostakovich Cello Sonata (Weinberg's melodic uniqueness, too, in his Second Sonata)...All... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th June 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2025, Recording of the Week
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Shostakovich: Piano Concertos and Piano Quintet
Martin Helmchen (piano), Paul Beniston (trumpet), Pieter Schoeman, Vesselin Gellev (violin), Alexander Zemtsov (viola) & Kristina Blaumane (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Helmchen shows himself adept in all aspects of No. 1's quirky humour and satirical modernism, No. 2's playful high spirits and - in the famous Andante - a nostalgic romanticism Rachmaninov might... —
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Special offer. Schubert - Chamber Music
Martin Helmchen (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Aloïs Posch (double bass), Martin Helmchen (piano) & Aldo Baerten (flute), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
This is a marvellous disc, one of the most enjoyable I have heard in a long time. It is distinguished by superb sound, too. There is a great line-up of soloists who seem to have clicked miraculously,... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Chamber Finalist
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Special offer. Schubert - Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Volume 2
RecommendedJulia Fischer (violin/piano) & Martin Helmchen (piano)
They give a magnificent account of this inspired work [the F major Fantasy]...It's a challenging piece...yet Fischer and Helmchen present as fine as any account on disc...They are a marvellous... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th May 2010
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Chamber Finalist
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