Pianist Mark Bebbington performs a World Premiere by Robert Matthew-Walker

Bromsgrove Concerts 2016-2017 Season

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Major D664

Matthew-Walker: Fantasy-Sonata: Hamlet (1980)

Matthew-Walker: A Bad Night in Los Angeles (2016) (1st performance)

Bliss: Triptych (1970)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F Minor Op 57 ‘Appassionata’

Mark Bebbington is always a welcome return visitor to Artrix. He gives the premiere of a work composed specially for him, as well as one of Beethoven’s great sonatas, and a rarely heard and utterly original work by the mid twentieth century composer Arthur Bliss. Mark Bebbinton recorded Matthew-Walker’s ‘Hamlet’ Sonata recently, which he also performs in this recital:
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