Interview with Martin Helmchen - Montreal Classical Spree 2025 - Rafael Payare OSM

Описание: The German pianist Martin Helmchen will give two concerts on the same day during the 2025 Classical Spree in Montreal : one in the morning at 11:00. and the other in the early evening at 18:30. The first is dedicated to chamber music and will be performed with his partner, cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, the other in concert format, with Rafael Payare and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. At 11:00. in the Cinquième Salle of the Place des Arts, it will be a ‘’Dialogue through the seasons’’, with four works of remarkable expressive writing, Dvořák's The Calm of the Forest, Fauré's Papillon, three excerpts from Schubert's Winterreise, and the Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 by the modern Schnittke, described by Helmchen as dark as a rainy autumn day, a rarely heard work, recently recorded by the same duo (remarkable album on Alpha classics) and a musical universe of visceral and powerful expressiveness. At 18:30, Helmchen will meet Rafael Payare for the first time in the performance of Mozart's magnificent Piano Concerto No. 24, K. 491, whose Adagio certainly gives its title to the concert itself, Love Metaphors. I discussed with Martin Helmchen, winner of the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in 2001, the works on the program and his time in Montreal, among others under the direction of Rafael Payare.