Each of these files offered for download are field recordings of a Dettmer square piano circa 1815. The recordings were made in the workshop immediately after repair and restringing and therefore the instrument has yet to achieve the full sweetness of tone you would expect it to acquire after six months of bedding in. The pieces were played by Kenneth Mobbs, formerly a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Bristol and currently Director of the Mobbs Early Keyboard collection.
J.C.F Bach
Last movement of Sonatina in A; No 4 of “Musikalische Nebenstunden” Pub.1788
Download file Hi Res 4.1Mb Lo Res 2Mb
Muzio Clementi
Scherzo (allegretto vivace) No 70 of “Gradus ad Parnassum” Pub.1826
Download file Hi Res 1.3Mb Lo Res 650Kb
J.L. Dussek
Rondo & “La Matinée” Pub.1795
Download file Hi Res 4Mb Lo Res 1.9Mb
L.V. Beethoven
Bagatelle in G maj, op126, No 1 Pub.1823
Download file Hi Res 2Mb Lo Res 1Mb
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