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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…

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…

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…

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…

Both singer and pianist refined the art of simplicity...A more subtle virtue is the Partridges’ sensitivity to Schubert’s art of the unexpected. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023 More…

Vukotic’s excellent sense of togetherness with Firsova shines in many of the responses in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella-derived Suite Italienne and the neat end of Schnittke’s Musica nostalgica. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…