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There’s a lovely old-school, almost Ferrier-esque quality to this young Liverpudlian mezzo’s timbre, as evinced by her upcoming Sea Pictures with Vasily Petrenko, and it suits Harty’s pleasantly... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, June 2020 More…

Martin Roscoe and the Coull Quartet take [the Piano Quintet] seriously as chamber music...[and] demonstrate well enough what a coherently and originally argued work the mature Voces Intimae... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Britten's last quartet has been lucky in its recordings… With the Coull there's a sense of searching and effort, which suits the pain of the music more than the complete technical assurance... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

His powers of subtle characterisation and sensitive range of touch are shown in his extremely sensitive portrayal of 'Feburary's Child'...I continue to feel that Bebbington is providing us with... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Karg-Elert produced a virtuoso recasting that needs a Listz to play it. Mark Bebbington gives it his best shot with revealing and often thrilling results. The enterprising coupling is the... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Never for a moment do you hear the smart metropolitan aplomb of an over-seasoned concert pianist. It is as if she is sharing a special love with a small circle of intimate friends. How memorably... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2013 More…

mainly what we have here is Elgar the entertainer, supplying his dance music to order. Barry Collett has been in the forefront of the revival of this repertoire, and the Innovation Chamber Ensemble... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Bebbington's playing is always sensitively nuanced, every phrase expressively shaped and pedalled, without losing sight of each piece's overall thrust and import. Buy with confidence. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Sonatas Nos 1 and 4 benefit from the expressive eloquence of Rachel Brown's flute, and in the opening Andante of the B minor, she and Adrian Butterfield converse with flirtatious suppleness... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…