DSLO 540  THE BROADWOOD HERITAGE: PIANO WORKS BY HAYDN / MENDELSSOHN / CLEMENTI / CHOPIN / BEETHOVEN / HANDEL      MALCOLM BINNS

L'OISEAU LYRE  UK  1978      LEAFLET     NM / EX+

A fascinating record. Malcolm Binns plays six different instruments manufactured in London by Broadwood across a sixty year period. The first instrument featured here, a harpsichord, was made in 1790 and Binns then performs on five different fortepianos dating from 1787, 1794, 1819, 1847 and 1854.