Piano Music by Robert Helps

Portrait (1960) [piano solo]

 — Helps acknowledged this work as one of his most accessible, pianistically speaking. The rhapsodic, but organized unfolding of this six-minute movement actually portrays nobody according to the composer. Perhaps it is the portraitist‘s keen glance (Rembrandt, Goya) which Helps is eulogizing…

Portrait is dedicated to Herta and Fritz Redlich

Listen to Portrait
, a live performance by Robert Helps


Listen to Portrait
by Robert Henry (YouTube, live recording, 2013)
Sound clip - Portrait