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Monday 27 July
Temple Church 7.30pm
Mark Bebbington
Piano Recital
Scarlatti: Three Sonatas - F sharp minor, B minor, D major (L.31,33,14)
Schubert: Sonata in B flat major D960
Grieg: Lyric Pieces
Arietta op. 12 no. 1
Butterfly op. 43 no. 1
Lonely Wanderer op. 43 no. 2
Notturno op. 54 no. 2
Liszt/Wagner: 'Spinning Chorus' from ''The Flying Dutchman''
Liszt/Wagner: 'Liebestod' from ''Tristan and Isolde''
Liszt/Donizetti: Reminiscences from ''Lucia di Lammermoor''
Liszt/Verdi: ''Rigoletto'' Concert Paraphrase
The critical acclaim which has greeted Mark Bebbington's recent performances and recordings has 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 recent CD, of piano music by Constant Lambert and Malcolm Arnold, was Editor's Choice in the February 2007 edition of Gramophone. This is the first in an ongoing series of recordings at Birminghams Symphony Hall, where Mark has the distinction of becoming the first solo artist to record. The next CD in the series includes Karg-Elert's transcription of Elgar's First Symphony coupled with Alan Bush's youthful Sonata Op.2, released September 2007.
The first volume of three CDs devoted to the solo piano works of Frank Bridge, released in June 2006, has become BBC Music Magazines Benchmark Bridge, and was Instrumental Choice ***** in the September issue of the magazine. His CD of Ivor Gurney and Howard Ferguson has earned him a maximum *** rating in the 2005/6 Penguin Guide to Classical CDs, in recognition of "an outstanding performance and recording in every way".
Over recent seasons Mark has toured extensively throughout Central and Northern Europe (both as recitalist and as concerto soloist with many of the world's leading orchestras), as well as the Far East and North Africa. Within the UK, he has appeared with the London Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras and London Mozart Players, at all the major London concert halls and at Birminghams Symphony Hall, and he has featured both as concerto soloist and recitalist on BBC Television and Radio and also on Radio France.
Recipient of numerous international awards and prizes, including a Leverhulme Scholarship and a Winston Churchill Fellowship, Mark studied at the Royal College of Music with Phyllis Sellick and Kendall Taylor and later in Italy with the legendary Aldo Ciccolini.
Mark's programming demonstrates a commitment to the music of our time and he has regularly included contemporary composers as diverse as Takemitsu, Julian Anderson, John McCabe, Francis Pott and Elliott Carter in his recital series.
No less a passionate advocate of the Viennese classics, Mark is also establishing a reputation as a refined and elegant exponent of French music and over recent years he has given critically acclaimed South Bank and Paris recitals with special emphasis on French nineteenth- and twentieth-century pianistic traditions. His French debut in the capitals Muse des Invalides Grands Interprtes, Premires Armes Series, was described by Aldo Ciccolini as one of the most brilliant debuts I have witnessed in the capital, and his Erik Satie concert, featuring the UK premire of Sports et divertissements in its original version for narrator and piano toured festivals in this country before playing sold-out performances at 'le chat blanc' cabaret club in Montmartre.
Projects for 2008 include continuing releases for the SOMM label of twentieth-century British piano music, a disc of Mozart Piano Concertos K413, 414, 415 with the Orchestra of the Swan and David Curtis, appearances in major concert series and festivals in the UK and within Europe, and London recitals at St Johns Smith Square.
The Steinway concert piano chosen and hired by the Budleigh Salterton Festival for this performance is supplied and maintained by Steinway and Sons, London
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Charlotte Marino
Charlotte is 16, lives in Budleigh Salterton and is a pupil at The Maynard School. She is principal clarinetist with the Devon Youth Orchestra and was this year awarded an EMI Foundation Music Bursary and BBC Fame Academy Music Award. Perviously she won the Advanced Clarinet Cup at the Devon Performing Arts Festival and was twice awarded the Gittings Cup for top Solo Performer from strings, barass and woodwind. She also plays saxophone, piano and flute.
