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"... intriguing ... a pleasure to play in the dedicated hands of Mark Bebbington and Rebecca Omordia ... with repeated listening this substantial work grows more rich and lyrical, in unmistakable RVW vein. Fans as well as completists should try it." - The Guardian "Recording of the Month ... all concerned with this ambitious and enterprising CD are to be congratulated ... a masterly work ... the ornate writing is richly and impressively elaborate. It is imposing and grandiloquent. The large-scale fugue is a wonder of contrapuntal art, harmonic fluidity and rich sinuous variety. Bebbington and Omordia’s deft and dedicated reading shows the work off in all its glory proving, if ever such proof was needed, that this work is a major find and a significant addition to the two piano repertory ... should surely attract more pianists to this spellbinding music." - MusicWeb International Pianists Mark Bebbington and Rebeca Omordia fuse their talents on the world premiere recording of the Introduction and Fugue for two pianos, written by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1947. Another highlight from the duo is the Tallis Fantasia: in its original string version it is an evergreen English work, repeatedly topping listener surveys of favourite pieces. Bebbington says this two piano transcription has leaner textures and clearer polyphony. "Vaughan Williams wrote the Introduction and Fugue concurrently with the Sixth Symphony, a work which shocked the musical world with its undisguised brutality and modernism ... this piano work belongs to the same musical aesthetic." - Mark Bebbington