Articles + Reviews By Helen O'Brien

Helen is a 'non-performing' musician and plays piano, harpsichord and fortepiano. After that ambiguous sentence, her other great love is writing. She is current editor of 'Music and the Teacher', and loves writing about music.

Sutherland Trio – Songs of the Night

by Helen O'Brien | Sep 28, 2013 | Ambassador thoughts

There was much to admire and little to fault in this performance by the Sutherland Trio. Opening the program was a piano trio version of Lili Boulanger’s D’un soir triste, a substantial single movement work that forms a diptych along with D’un matin de printemps. The...

Ironwood’s Old Masters, New Sounds

by Helen O'Brien | Sep 3, 2013 | Ambassador thoughts

The recital opened with an elucidating lecture on the rationale for the performance style of this Brahm’s Piano Quartet and was well received by the attentive audience. I’ve always considered the term ‘Historically Informed Performance’ rather awkward; its opposite...

Articles + Reviews By Helen O'Brien

Sutherland Trio – Songs of the Night

Ironwood’s Old Masters, New Sounds

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