Dazzling English piano solos of the last 75 years

Notes from a Small Island is a trio of concerts in which pianist Mark Bebbington showcases major works for piano by British composers of the last hundred years.

In the third and final concert of the series, Mark champions John McCabe (1939-2015), whose most ambitious and comprehensive piano work Tenebrae (1992/3) is set alongside the premiere of Robert Matthew-Walker’s contemplation for solo piano in memoriam John McCabe - The Fields are White Already. Finally, an unsung hero of British music, Robert Simpson, is represented in his masterly ‘Variations and Finale on a Theme of Haydn’ (1948), a dazzling display of keyboard mastery and compositional integrity.