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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,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 16th Oct 2006
Catalogue No: SOMMCD062
Label: Somm
Series: New Horizons
Length: 76 minutes

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Arnold: Piano Sonata in B Minor

Work length12:04

$3.00

$3.60

Mark Bebbington (piano)
Recorded: 23-24 August 2005
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Englandm United Kingdom

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length5:38

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II. Andante con moto

Track length2:53

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III. Alla marcia

Track length3:33

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Arnold: 2 Pieces

Work length6:07

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Mark Bebbington (piano)
Recorded: 23-24 August 2005
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Englandm United Kingdom

No. 1. Prelude: Andante lamentoso

Track length3:30

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No. 2. Romance: Andante con molto espressivo

Track length2:37

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Arnold: Variations on a Ukrainian Folksong Op. 9

Work length14:52

$11.00

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Mark Bebbington (piano)
Recorded: 23-24 August 2005
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Englandm United Kingdom

Theme: Andante con molto espressione

Track length0:48

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Variation 1: Molto agitato

Track length1:04

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Variation 2: Allegro vivace

Track length1:00

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Variation 3: Piu mosso

Track length1:02

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Variation 4: Allegretto

Track length1:09

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Variation 5: Interlude: Andante

Track length0:44

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Variation 6: Vivace

Track length0:45

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Variation 7: Allegretto semplice

Track length0:47

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Variation 8: Presto

Track length1:46

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Variation 9: Andantino cantabile

Track length2:02

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Variation 10: Con fuoco

Track length3:45

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Lambert, C: Piano Sonata

Work length23:31

$5.00

$6.00

Mark Bebbington (piano)
Recorded: 23-24 August 2005
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Englandm United Kingdom

I. Allegro molto marcato

Track length6:21

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II. Nocturne: Andante - Presto e leggiero - Andante - Presto

Track length8:15

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III. Finale: Lugubre - Presto

Track length8:55

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Lambert, C: Elegy

Work length5:09

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Mark Bebbington (piano)
Recorded: 23-24 August 2005
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Englandm United Kingdom

Lambert, C: Piano Suite in 3 Movements

Work length11:49

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$3.60

Mark Bebbington (piano)
Recorded: 23-24 August 2005
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Englandm United Kingdom

I. Andante

Track length5:16

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II. Prestissimo

Track length3:15

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III. Moderato

Track length3:18

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Lambert, C: Elegiac Blues

Work length3:05

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Mark Bebbington (piano)
Recorded: 23-24 August 2005
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Englandm United Kingdom

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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, a wistful Andante con moto leads without a break into the Alla marcia finale, whose element of ironic burlesque suggests an acquaintance with Prokofiev and Shostakovich. The Piano Pieces, completed the following year, already possess that bittersweet tang characteristic of the composer.
However, the meatiest Arnold offering here is the absorbing 1944 Variations on a UkrainianFolksong. Bebbington is a splendidly intrepidly communicative and an unruffled advocate.
He also benefits from a superbly rounded, firmly focused sound-picture.
Bebbington proves equally at home in the music of Constant Lambert. His interpretation of the magnificent 1929 Sonata that bridges the gap between The Rio Grande (1927) and the Piano Concerto (1930-31) has all the stylish aplomb, improvisatory freedom and infectious swagger one could wish for, yet with a touch more introspection and poignancy in the bluesy slow movement than either Ian Brown or John McCabe locate. The finale hurtles menacingly towards its grim apotheosis, after which the skies darken further still for the inconsolable Elegy that Lambert wrote in 1938. The three movement Suite from 1925 is full of daring, ear-tickling invention (sample the hallucinatory opening Andante) and a striking achievement for someone barely out of their teens. The sweetly touching Elegiac Blues of 1927 (written within days of the news of the early death of singer Florence Mills) rounds off another high-class collection from this intelligent and tasteful performer.

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