New Horizons

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…

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…

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…

No Russian nationalism here, rather the influences of Chopin, Schumann, Brahms and, occasionally, a dash of Mendelssohn...This is meaty, attractive and expertly crafted music...In every way,... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2011 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…