September 2011 release includes chamber music with piano by a "composer's composer".
From Naxos: This recording is an exploration of Robert Helpss subtle sound world (ClassicsToday.com on Naxos),
and his shared history with Spectrum Concerts Berlin. Highly regarded
as a musicians musician, Helps is featured as both composer and
pianist. Postlude is suffused with an atmosphere of reminiscence, and the flow of endless melody in the Piano Quartet is comparable to Scriabin. Associations with the Second Viennese School are heard in the poetic Quintet and the virtuoso Fantasy, while the two Piano Trios mark the stylistic boundaries of his career. Helpss Shall We Dance for piano (CD 2, Track 12) was among his last recordings.
"Robert Helps is not only the pianist's pianist, and the composer's
composer, he is also the pianist's composer and the composer's pianist,
for, since his teen-age performance of music that was deemed
unperformable, he has played incomparably: compositions which other
pianists could not or would not perform. The singular pianistic mastery
which he brought to these performances moulds his own writing for piano,
from which pianists have discovered resources of nuance, rhythmic
subtlety, dynamic control, and sound which endow their own playing with a
new sensitivity and sensibility. His chamber and orchestral
compositions are not pianistic transcriptions, but the fresh realization
of the same awareness in these non-pianistic media. He long has been a
legend in his own time and he deserves it." ---Milton Babbitt (1996)
Robert Helps ACA Composer Page