Piano Music by Robert Helps
Nocturne (1973) [piano solo]
Single movement work of grand conception: haunting ostinati vie with rhapsodic figures and unsettled harmonies for control of the piece. “Of jagged dreams” writes Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe.Nocturne was recorded by Grammy-nominated pianist Alan Feinberg on his CD entitled “The American Romantic.”
Duration: 10 minutes
Spanish Symbolist painter J. Nestor.
(Decadence as struggle… Nocturne by Helps?)