Browse: New Horizons (series)

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…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, 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 debut... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The core of this recital… are sets of lyric pieces both early and late, of which the three Channel Island landscapes of Sarnia… remain one of Ireland's finest imaginative achievements. Bebbington's... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 5 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…

As in previous volumes, his impeccable phrasing, sensitivity to chord-colouring, and expressive identification with the music make this new disc probably the version of these pieces to go for...Bebbington... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…