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Robert Helps’ Repertoire
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If one were to construct a sort of
“top ten”
for the master (based on frequency of performance in the last twenty years of his life, excluding his own music), it might read as follows:
1 - Schubert:
Sonata
in A major D. 959
2 - Chopin:
Sonata
in b-flat minor op. 35
,
Etudes
op. 10 & op. 25
3 - Roger Sessions:
Second
Sonata
,
From my Diary
4 - Fauré:
Nocturnes
4 & 12,
Barcarolles
1 & 9
5 - Ravel:
Valses nobles et sentimentales
,
Ondine
,
Histoires naturelles
6 - Messiaen:
Quatuor
pour la fin du temps
7 - John Ireland:
The Darkened Valley
,
April
,
Chelsea Reach
8 - Debussy:
Proses lyriques
,
Ariettes oubliées
,
Sonate
pour violoncelle et piano,
En blanc et noir
9 - Schoenberg:
Pierrot lunaire
op. 21
, and
Book of the Hanging Gardens
op. 15
10 - Arnold Bax:
Piano
Sonatas
1 & 3
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If one were to construct a sort of “top ten” for the master (based on frequency of performance in the last twenty years of his life, excluding his own music), it might read as follows:
