Bebbington brings out the opalescent harmonies and wayward phrases of these pieces to perfection, and deftly charaterises the various songsters in The Hedgerow. Perhaps the expressive high-points of the disc are the desolate Winter Pastoral of 1925 and the enigmatic A Dedication of the following year...performed here with rapt attentiveness and beauty of tone that reveals the expressive impact of these works.

Best of all are the early works: Berceuse (1901), Bridge's first piano miniature, and Thre Pieces (1901-02), have an immediate appeal to which Bebbington appends affection and the same lustrous tone-colouring common to all 22 separate titles...Those with a penchant for the piano's left-hand-alone repertoire will be drawn to Three Improvisations

even within such a collection of miniatures and occasional pieces, which ranges right across Bridge's composing career, there is still enough to show what a remarkable and, in the context of early-20th-century British music, unique figure he was...Bebbington plays [Gargoyle] and other radical pieces, such as the mysterious A Dedication, with the same poise and clarity he brings to the more obviously Edwardian salon music here.

These piano pieces show an astonishing range of influences, from Chopin to expressionist Schoenberg to Debussy to English pastoralism, sometimes within the space of one piece. To make it all cohere requires a firm structural grasp, which Bebbington certainly has, but he catches the sensuousness of the music too.