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Twenty
Early Keyboards
Played by Kenneth Mobbs on instruments from the Mobbs
Keyboard Collection. KensoundCD01
This professionally-produced CD is an exceedingly interesting
compilation of movements from various digital recordings
made by Kenneth Mobbs, some quite recent and others stretching
back in time several years. There are 22 tracks in all,
occupying a total time of 76 minutes. A serious attempt
has been made in every case to match the instrument as closely
as possible with the composer chosen. Particularly interesting
are performances using some very rare instruments and the
sound comparisons which can be made from them (for example,
between the two Upright Grands). Listeners should also be
prepared for an aural shock during the performance of the
Haydn Minuet (track 8) where the cunning construction of
the movement is demonstrated by what is rapidly becoming
obsolete technology.
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Four
English Early Grands:
Kenneth Mobbs playing his Kirckman c.1800 & Broadwood
1808 horizontal Grands, and Clementi 1806 and Broadwood
c.1817 Upright Grands.
Kirckman c.1800 grand: Dussek: Sonata op.35 no.3; Field:
Sonata op.1 no.1;
Clementi 1806 Upright Grand: Clementi: arrangement of Batti,
Batti (Mozart);
Broadwood 1808 grand with Venetian Swell: Beethoven:
Moonlight Sonata op.27 no.2,
Broadwood c.1817 Upright Grand: Beethoven: Rondo op.51 no.2,
and Six Bagatelles, op.126.
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Schubert:
Die Schöne Müllerin:
Schubert’s moving song cycle captured live at a
Bristol Music Club concert.
Sung by Niall Hoskin (baritone) with Kenneth Mobbs on his
Clayson and Garrett copy of a Stein 1784 fortepiano.
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Items from Pianoforte
Recitals, 1959 to 1996:
Kenneth Mobbs recorded live, playing on modern concert pianos
at the University of Bristol
Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso, op.14 and Fantasia, op.28
Schumann: Arabesque, op.18 and Faschingsschwank aus Wien,
op.26
Debussy: L'isle joyeuse
Raymond Warren: Sonata no.2
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Items
from Organ Recitals, 1968 to 1975:
Kenneth Mobbs recorded live, playing the Nicholson
Organ in the Wills Memorial building, University of Bristol
J.S.
Bach : Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546
Schumann: Fugue on BACH, op. 60 no. 6
César Franck : Chorales nos. 1 and 3
Messiaen: Force et Agilité des Corps Glorieux; Le
Mystère de la Sainte Trinité; Joie et Clarté
des Corps Glorieux; Dieu parmi nous
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Schubert: Winter Journey:
Leslie Minchin was long recognised as a specialist in the apt marrying of English words to
German Lieder settings. This 1985 live performance in English of Schubert's powerful song
cycle was given by Peter Allanson (baritone) and accompanied by Kenneth Mobbs on the Blüthner
grand piano in Leighton House Museum and Art Gallery.
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