Browse: 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... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Helmchen really brings out the different approaches Beethoven took in these concertos. A sturdy, reliable recording of two great works. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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 Sonata... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It can easily be tempting for performers to emphasise the lyrical character of the first movement of the Spring Sonata at the expense of its more dramatic side. That’s not a charge which can... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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 surprise... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2018 More…

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,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The generous interplay between the three soloists – Helmchen and violinist Antje Weithaas alongside Hecker – is a joy, finely judged, sensitive and exuberant in turn, and full of refreshing clarity. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…