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Martin Helmchen - Schubert: Trout Quintet, Trockne Blumen Variations, Notturno (2009) MCH PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

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Martin Helmchen - Schubert: Trout Quintet, Trockne Blumen Variations, Notturno (2009) MCH PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Martin Helmchen - Schubert: Trout Quintet, Trockne Blumen Variations, Notturno (2009)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 68:40 minutes | Scans included | 3,75 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 1,77 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,41 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Pentatone # PTC 5186 334

Young pianist Martin Helmchen again shows his affinity for Schubert in this magnificent reading of the Trout Quintet. There are currently 90 listings of the Trout Quintet for the unusual combination of piano, string trio, and double bass. What distinguishes this one from most of the other eighty-nine is the coolly accomplished, no-nonsense approach of Helmchen and his mates. This is one of the most smoothly articulated accounts I have ever heard of this well-loved work. In the opening movement, marked Allegro vivace, the blend of the strings is ideal, especially in the pianissimo passages, when they are virtually muted. The tone of Tetzlaff’s violin at this moment is indescribably beautiful.

VA - Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Posted By: delpotro
VA - Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Julian Pregardien, Tanja Tetzlaff, Rachel Roberts, Florian Donderer, Martin Helmchen, Christian Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker - Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 113:09 minutes | 1,91 GB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

Here are two works composed by Schubert at the very end of his short life. Schwanengesang (Swansong) was written in Vienna in the autumn of 1828. He died on 19 November at the age of thirty-one, and Die Taubenpost (Pigeon post), which closes the collection, is said to be his very last composition. The fourteen songs, by turns light-hearted, sombre and melancholy, are settings of poems by Ludwig Rellstab, Heinrich Heine and Johann Gabriel Seidl.

Frank Peter Zimmermann & Martin Helmchen - Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 8 - 10 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Frank Peter Zimmermann & Martin Helmchen - Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 8 - 10 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Frank Peter Zimmermann & Martin Helmchen - Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 8 - 10 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 78:55 minutes | 1,32 GB
Classical | Label: BIS, Official Digital Download

Previous instalments of the Beethoven sonata cycle from Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen have met with wide acclaim. Described as ‘conversations by a perfect instrumental pairing’ in BBC Music Magazine, the discs have received a Choc in Classica and the recommendation of German website klassik.com, respectively. This the third and final volume brings together Beethoven's last three works in the genre, composed between 1801 and 1812. The centre-piece is the ninth sonata, the famed ‘Kreutzer Sonata’.

Frank Peter Zimmermann & Martin Helmchen - Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5-7 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Frank Peter Zimmermann & Martin Helmchen - Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5-7 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Frank Peter Zimmermann & Martin Helmchen - Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5-7 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 68:15 minutes | 1,16 GB
Classical | Label: BIS, Official Digital Download

2020 saw the release of the first instalment in this three-disc traversal of Beethoven’s violin sonatas – a disc which has garnered distinctions such as Choc de Classica and Cum Laude (Luister), with performances that ‘wed classical verve to a profoundly Romantic spirit’ (Gramophone) in ‘recordings that are conversations by a perfect instrumental pairing’ (BBC Music Magazine).

Martin Helmchen, Marc Albrecht - Schumann & Dvorak Piano Concertos (2009) SACD ISO

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Martin Helmchen, Marc Albrecht - Schumann & Dvorak Piano Concertos (2009) SACD ISO

Martin Helmchen, Marc Albrecht - Schumann & Dvorak Piano Concertos (2009)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & DST64 5.1 >1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Booklet included | 70:52 min | 3,38 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: PentaTone

This disc is a direct competitor to Schumann, Dvorak: Piano Concertos - Paolo Giacometti and in even in terms of artists employed they are comparable: both have young and up-coming pianists accompanied by less familiar orchestral/conductor partnerships. In the end, this release is more succesfully artistically, honours split with regard to sonics. Whilst there is little competition for the Dvorak (although what exists is heavyweight), the same cannot be said of the Schumann concerto (even on SACD) and Helmchen has many illustrious names to compete against.

Martin Helmchen, Gordon Nikolic - Mozart: Piano Concertos 15 & 27 (2007) SACD ISO

Posted By: murena
Martin Helmchen, Gordon Nikolic - Mozart: Piano Concertos 15 & 27 (2007) SACD ISO

Martin Helmchen, Gordon Nikolic - Mozart: Piano Concertos 15 & 27 (2007)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 5.1 >1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Booklet included | 55:25 min | 2,9 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: PentaTone

Helmchen has returned to Mozart with these beautiful performance of two of the composer's liveliest concertos, Nos. 15 and 27. Crystalline pianism throughout, with splendid accompaniment from the fine Dutch orchestra and conductor Nikolic. Well-balanced audio, with natural balance between soloist and orchestra are another plus. Another Mozart concerto easily could have been included; playing time is rather brief.