Pianist

So you think you know British music? Everyone loves Jupiter from Holst’s The Planets, but tonight you’ll hear so much more as Principal Guest Conductor Andrew Manze takes the Orchestra on a voyage to infinity and beyond. We’ll join William Walton in a Spitfire over wartime London – and travel to 1939 New York, where the young British firebrand Arthur Bliss brings the house down with a volcano of a piano concerto played by Mark Bebbington.

The Planets

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

A pianist with a wide and ever-expanding repertoire, always keen to champion unusual music that he believes in, Mark Bebbington has won a devoted following for both his recordings and his live appearances. Poulenc has been a particular recent passion.

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Mark Bebbington piano

Wigmore Hall

Elgar’s Enigma Variations began as a parlour game, a series of musical portraits of the composer’s nearest and dearest. It grew into the warmest, tenderest and most stirring masterpiece in all of British music: who isn’t moved by the profound emotion of Nimrod? Few artists understand British music better than former English National Opera music director Martyn Brabbins, and tonight Enigma crowns an all-British programme that opens with the serenity of Vaughan Williams and stars another great champion of British music, pianist Mark Bebbington, in the Piano Concerto by Sir Arthur Bliss. It’s not heard all that often, but it’s an absolute knockout: an art deco blockbuster, written on the eve of the Second World War. The greatest piano concerto you’ve never heard? Judge for yourself…

Elgar’s Enigma Variations

Cadogan Hall 

Elgar’s Enigma Variations began as a parlour game – a series of musical portraits of the composer’s nearest and dearest. It grew into the warmest, tenderest and most stirring masterpiece in all of British music: who isn’t moved by the profound emotion of Nimrod?

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Elgar’s Enigma Variations

Following his solo concert appearance last year at G Live, eminent British pianist Mark Bebbington returns to the stage this season to perform Delius’ Piano Concerto, blending English Romanticism with pastoral gentleness accompanied by the Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra of Colón Opera.

Bizet: Carmen Suite

G Live

We are very excited to be ending our season with the first ever visit to the UK of the internationally famous Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra of Colón Opera.  This concert is of particular significance as we celebrate Bradford’s year as the UK’s City of Culture, with a performance of our own city’s great composer Frederik Delius’s piano concerto, performed by the distinguished British pianist Mark Bebbington.  Prior to the tour, this great Delius work will receive its Argentinian premiere, a concert that has been inspired by our position as the UK’s City of Culture.  The programme will open with Wagner’s romantic Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan & Isolde and in the second half there will be music from Bizet’s much-loved Carmen Suite, Tchaikovsky’s lyrical Swan Lake suite and the programme will end with two dazzling, scintillating show stoppers from two of Argentina’s greatest composers - Alberto Ginastera and Astor Piazzolla.  

Mark Bebbington

Pianist

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 26, 2024

The Planets · Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Nov 29, 2024

Mark Bebbington piano · Wigmore Hall

Apr 16, 2025

Elgar’s Enigma Variations · Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Apr 16, 2025

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Elgar’s Enigma Variations · Cadogan Hall

May 16, 2025

Bizet: Carmen Suite · G Live

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Piano Concerto by Bliss

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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