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Robert Helps’ Score links

American Composers Alliance

https://composers.com/collections/robert-helps

— Cortège (for orchestra)
— Two Songs (for voice and piano)
— String Quartet no. 1
— Fantasy (for piano)
— Trio no. 1 (for violin, ‘cello, & piano)
— Nocturne (for string quartet)
— Solo (for piano)
— Fantasy (for violin & piano)
— Postlude (for violin, horn, and piano)
— Quintet (for flute, violin, clarinet, ’cello, & piano)
— Fantasy Fontana (for piano)
— Schilflied (transcription of F. Mendelssohn’s song for piano)
— A Mixture of Time (for guitar and piano)

 

Wise Music Classical (formally knwon as G. Schirmer)

www.wisemusicclassical.com

— Symphony no. 1 (score and parts on rental only)
— New Music for piano (includes Image)
— Piano Concerto no. 2 (score and parts on rental only)
— Music for Left Hand (Catalog number 50235810)
— In Retrospect - Five Pieces for piano (Catalog number 50226870)
— Second Thoughts (for flute)

 

C.F. Peters, Inc.

https://www.edition-peters.com

— Three Etudes (Cat. number P6998)
— Recollections (Cat. number P66167)
— Portrait (Catalog number P6997)
— Concerto no. 1 for piano and orchestra (score and parts on rental only)
— Saccade (Catalog number P66282)
— Quartet for piano (Catalog number P66404)
— The Running Sun (Catalog number P66650)
— Three Hommages (Catalog number P66525)
— Nocturne for piano (Catalog number P66563)
— Gossamer Noons (score and parts on rental only)
— Waltzes by 25 Contemporary Composers [includes Valse Mirage] (Catalog number P66404)
— Eventually the Carousel Begins (Catalog number P67209)
— Shall We Dance (Catalog number P67751)
— Berceuse (“in production”)
— Trio no. 2 (“in production”)
— Piano Quartet (“in production”)
— Symphony no. 2 (score and parts on rental only)

 

In manuscript (pending publication)

— Duo (for ‘cello and piano)
— The Altered Landscape (for organ)
— Love is a Sickness Full of Woes (transcription of J. Ireland’s song for piano)
— Chatting (for two ‘celli)
— Chanson pour Jeanne (transcription of E. Chabrier’s song for piano)
— Testament (transcription of H. Duparc’s song for piano)
— Two Postcards

 

Digital Commons @ University of South Florida
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu

USF Digital Collections, Robert Helps Collection:
an online collection containing some of Robert Helps’ scanned manuscript scores, including juvenilia.

 

Robert Helps’ Recording links

Albany Records
https://www.albanyrecords.com

Works by Lopatnikoff, Helps, Thompson, & Kurka — [Albany Records TROY 591]
— Piano Concerto no. 2 (Alan Feinberg, piano; Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller)

Works by Robert Helps, John Adams, Todd Brief, & Roger Sessions [Albany Records TROY 038-2]
— Hommage à Fauré (Christopher O’Reilly, piano)

New Waltzes for piano [Albany Records TROY689]
— Valse Mirage (Eric Moe, piano)

Tribute to Andrew Imbrie in Celebration of His Eightieth Birthday [Albany Records TROY 766]
— Two Postcards (Mack McCray, piano)

Music By My Friends [Albany Records TROY 695–96]
— Hommage à Fauré (Bennnett Lerner, piano)

Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 1 [Albany Records TROY 925]
— Trois Hommages, Nocturne, Music for Left Hand, Fantasy Fontana, In Retrospect, Valse Mirage, Shall We Dance, Radiance, Transcriptions, Two Postcards (Naomi Niskala, piano)

Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 2 [Albany Records TROY 958]
— Fantasy, Three Etudes, Image, Recollections, Portrait, Solo, Starscape, Quartet (Naomi Niskala, piano)

Orchestral Works [Albany Records TROY 1079]
— Symphony no 1, Symphony no 2, Gossamer Noons, Quintet
(USFSO, W. Wiedrich, J. Curtis, Soprano)

 

Argo (Decca Classics out of print)
https://www.arkivmusic.com

The American Romantic [ARGO 430 330-2]
— Nocturne (Alan Feinberg, piano)
— Three Hommages (Alan Feinberg, piano)
— Schilflied (Alan Feinberg, piano)

 

Bacchanal Bay

Time Grown Old (New Music for Organ) [Bacchanal Bay BB2201]
— The Altered Landscape (Hilton Kean Jones, organ)

 

Centaur Records
http://www.centaurrecords.com

Piano Trios by Robert Helps, Eric Moe, Tamar Diesendruck, & Augusta Read Thomas (Centaur CRC 2410)
— Trio no. 2 (Lions Gate Trio)

Sound Vessels. Duos by Robert Helps, Richard Wernick, Elliott Carter & Augusta Read Thomas (Centaur CRC 2765)
— Duo (Scott Kluksdahl, ‘cello; Noreen Cassidy–Polera, piano)

 

Composers Recordings, Inc.
https://www.newworldrecords.org

American Masters series: Robert Helps [CRI CD 717]
— Symphony no. 1 (Columbia Symphony orchestra, Z. Rozsnyai)
— Three Etudes (David del Tredici, piano)
— Recollections (William Masselos, piano)
— Trois Hommages (Robert Helps, piano)
— Gossamer Noons (Bethany Beardslee, soprano; American Composer’s Orchestra)

Spectrum: New Chamber & Solo Music by David del Tredici, Robert Helps, Jad Radzynski, & Tison Street [CRI 649]
— Nocturne for string quartet (Spectrum Ensemble Berlin)
— Three Hommages (Robert Helps, piano)

Gay American Composers [CRI 721]
— Hommage à Fauré, Hommage à Rachmaninoff (Robert Helps, piano)

American Contemporary [CRI SD 383]
— Saccade (Genevieve Chinn & Alan Brings, piano)

Solo Flights [CRI 864]
— In Retrospect & Godowsky Study no. 45 (Robert Helps, piano)

New Music for the Piano (reprint) [CRI CD 874]
— Image (Robert Helps, piano)

But Yesterday is not Today – The American Art Song 1927-1972 [New World Records 80243-2]
— The Running Sun (Bethany Beardslee, soprano; Robert Helps, piano)

Roger Sessions: Piano Works [New World Records NWCR800]
— Piano Sonatas, 1-3 & From my Diary, I-IV (Robert Helps, piano)

 

GM Recordings
https://www.gmrecordings.com

Premieres and Commissions [GM Recordings, B00006H697]
— Shall We Dance (Russell Sherman)

Stories, Airs & Verse [GM Recordings, GM2029]
— French Art Songs of Debussy and Ravel (Bethany Beardslee, soprano, Robert Helps, piano)

 

Music & Arts Program
https://musicandarts.com

Contemporary American Piano Trios vol. 2 [Music & Arts CD-933]
— Piano Trio no. 1 (Francesco Trio)

 

Naxos American Classics
https://www.naxos.com

Robert Helps: Shall We Dance (and other works) [Naxos 8.559199]
— Shall We Dance (Robert Helps, piano)
— Piano Quartet (Spectrum Concerts Berlin)
— Postlude (Spectrum Concerts Berlin)
— Nocturne for string quartet (Spectrum Concerts Berlin)


Robert Helps: Chamber Music with Piano [Naxos 8.559696-97]
— Piano Trios / Piano Quartet / Quintet / Duo (Helps in Berlin, Helps, Atos Trio, Spectrum Concerts Berlin)
— Helps plays Mendelssohn, Ireland, Poulenc, Godowsky and Helps (live in Berlin)

 

Phoenix USA
https://www.phoenixcd.com

American Masters (Elliot Carter, Del Tredici, Helps, Persichetti) [PHCD141]
— Portrait (George Bennette, piano)

 

Video Artists International (VAI Audio)
https://www.vaimusic.com

Incantations – Twentieth Century Works for solo flute
— Second Thoughts (Robert Stallman, flute)

 

Americus Records
https://www.roberto-poli.com

— Shall We Dance (Roberto Poli)

 

Gega Records
https://naxosdirect.com

Naked Tango
— Recollections, Eventually the Carousel Begins, & Radiance (Svetovar Ivanov)

 

Koch international Classics
https://www.discogs.com

Insomnimania
— Two Postcards: Friday night in Greenwich Village (Jenny Lin)

 

Danacord
https://www.danacord.dk

Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum - Vol. 22 from the 2010 Festival
— Hommage à Fauré (Jenny Lin)

 

Bridge Records
https://bridgerecords.com

Close Connections
— Shall We Dance (Garrick Ohlsson)

 

Warner Classics
https://www.warnerclassics.com

— Second Thoughts for flute (Emmanuel Pahud)

 

Other Labels, LP’s, & out of print Recordings

Aca Digital
https://acadigitalrecording.com

Portrait [Aca CD 20008]
— Portrait (David Watkins, piano)

 

Desto Records

Robert Helps: Music for Piano [Desto DC-7122] (LP)
— Three Etudes (David del Tredici, piano) – reissued on CRI 717
— Recollections (William Masselos, piano) – reissued on CRI 717
— Quartet (Robert Helps, piano)

 

Electra Nonesuch

The Waltz Project [Nonesuch D-79011] (LP & cassette)
— Valse Mirage (John Cobb, piano)
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