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Morning	10am Town Walk	Meet 10am outside the Temple Church
Afternoon	12 noon Lunchtime concert	Laura & Rosemary Robinson, viola and piano
Evening	7.30pm Temple Church	Orchestral Concert

 

Monday 26 July
St Peter's Church
7.30pm

The Festival Orchestra

     Sinfonia in Eb, Op, 9 no. 2             J. C. Bach              
Piano Concerto in Eb, K. 595             Mozart             Symphony no. 78 in C minor                 Haydn             Piano Concerto in A, K. 414                 Mozart      

soloist: Mark Bebbington, piano

The critical plaudits which have greeted Mark Bebbington's performances and recordings have singled him out as a young British pianist of the rarest refinement and maturity. Increasingly recognised as a champion of British music, Mark has recorded extensively for SOMM “New Horizons” label to unanimous critical acclaim.

His most recent CD, released in November 2009, is a premiere recording of Bax's Piano Concertino coupled with Ireland's Piano Concerto and Legend with the Orchestra of the Swan and David Curtis. An earlier 2009 disc, four British Piano Concertos with the CBSO and Howard Williams, has attracted high critical acclaim.

In addition to concerto recordings for SOMM label, Mark continues his John Ireland and Frank Bridge solo piano series; four consecutive discs have each earned him 5***** in BBC Music Magazine and International Piano summed up his achievement in October 2009:-

”Bebbington's revivals of British piano music are second to none; he could well be dubbed the concert pianists' Richard Hickox. Bebbington has almost single-handedly demonstrated that 20th-century British piano scores have an exciting role to play in the concert hall and recording studio.”

All these CDs are initial releases in an ongoing series recorded at Birmingham's Symphony Hall, where Mark has the distinction of becoming the first solo artist to record.