Mark Bebbington

The First Concerto was written when Mathias was only 20 and reveals a fascinatingly wiry, acerbic mindset which the composer largely jettisoned in his later style. With a greater sense of direction,... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2011 More…

Jacobs's compact Concerto No. 1 of 1927 starts us off with a tinkle, a crash, neo-classical fingerwork, and a sprinkling of slightly crunched harmonies...In its first recording, British devotee... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The Concertino's piano part, rather sparer than that of a fully fledged concerto, suits Mark Bebbington's flair for lucid sonority (always beautifully judged) and the quality contribution of... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2009 More…

Mark Bebbington, both with and without the orchestra, plays what there is with passion and conviction…[in the Delius] Bebbington brings in a good dose of bravura and also finds, together with... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Bebbington brings a nice balance of swagger and thoughtfulness to this all-Gershwin programme. He has said he finds a “Mahlerian melancholy” in the second movement of the Concerto in F...and... — The Guardian, 9th July 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

With this delectably performed and well engineered recording he (Bebbington) is well set to enter the mainstream CD market. — Birmingham Post, May 2007 More…

Bebbington is adept at getting to the lyrical heart of a work, and the interpretative gem here is perhaps his intensely sympathetic reading of Gerald Finzi's short Eclogue for piano and strings. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…