Mark Bebbington
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Poulenc: Piano Concerto & Concert champêtre
RecommendedMark Bebbington (piano), Jonathan Davies (bassoon), John Roberts (oboe), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Latham-Koenig
[Oboe Sonata] their expressive yet understated performance is the highlight of an attractive, well played, and beautifully recorded disc. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Building a Library, June 2023, Also Recommended (Piano Concerto in C sharp minor)
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Mark Bebbington's 85th-birthday tribute to the late Sir Malcolm Arnold starts with his first substantial piano composition, the Piano Sonata in B minor from 1942. After a concise opening movement,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on the Old 104th, The Lark Ascending
Mark Bebbington (piano), Duncan Riddell, Abigail Fenna, Richard Harwood, Benjamin Cunningham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of London Choir, Hilary Davan Wetton
Its dramatic juxtapositions of Lisztian piano cadenzas with VW’s setting for choir and orchestra of Thomas Ravenscroft’s 17th-century psalm tune are stirringly captured on this new recording,... —
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Special offer. Mark Bebbington plays Bax & Ireland
Mark Bebbington (piano)
Orchestra of the Swan, David Curtis
The Concertino's piano part, rather sparer than that of a fully fledged concerto, suits Mark Bebbington's flair for lucid sonority (always beautifully judged) and the quality contribution of... —
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[Bebbington] plays with tremendous authority, supported by a vivid recording with a appropriately wide dynamic range…Whatever his passions, private or public, Bax does what all worthwhile composers... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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A Bad Night in Los Angeles
Piano Music of Robert Matthew-Walker
Mark Bebbington (piano), Rebeca Omordia (piano)
Mark Bebbington is a capable, expressive pianist with nimble fingers, a wide dynamic range, and a good ear for Matthew-Walker’s approach to sonority. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2023
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The main work here is the grim and haunted Sonata (1921-24), Bridge's painful and profound response to the Great War. This is an epic performance, making the most of the work's mingled violence... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, Instrumental Choice
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Special offer. Joubert - Chamber and Instrumental Music
Patricia Rozario, Anna Joubert, Mark Bebbington & John McCabe
Brodsky Quartet
Pride of place foes to Joubert's 1977 Second Quartet, an impressive piece played with great conviction by the Brodsky Quartet, in the best recording of the set. —
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[Bebbington] has a rewarding slant on the eleven waltzes, composed between 1954 and 1955...There’s no other performance [of the Carwithen] with which to compare Bebbington’s but there’s every... —
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Bebbington is now an established exponent of forgotten piano music and this rerelease of his 2003 efforts to draw attention to the works of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is a delight, particularly... —
