Mark Bebbington - Bax: Piano Concertino - Ireland: Piano Concerto & Legend (2014)

SOMM has achieved a spectacular coup with the first-ever recording of Bax’s Concertino for Piano & Orchestra. The CD was recorded last April and this work also had its world premiere performance last July with The Orchestra of the Swan and Mark Bebbington, to critical acclaim.

Mark Bebbington – Piano,
Orchestra of the Swan,
David Curtis – Conductor

This is a large-scale piano concerto and Bax had dedicated it – as almost all other works for piano – to “Tanya” his name for his friend and lover, pianist Harriet Cohen.