In a journal article, the New Zealand philosopher Denis Dutton claims that Helfgott's piano playing during his comeback in the latter part of the 1990s has "severe technical and aesthetic deficiencies which would be unacceptable in any musician whose reputation had not been inflated beyond recognition".
U jednom članku novozelandski filozof Denis Dutton tvrdi da je Helfgottovo sviranje glasovira tijekom njegovog povratka (u kasnim 90-im godinama prošlog stoljeća) imalo velikih tehničkih i estetskih mana koje ne bi bile prihvatljive za niti jednog glazbenika čija reputacija nije bila napuhana.