Daniel Gottlob Türk is best known for his influential teaching manual Klavierschule (1789), a work which influenced a generation of aspiring keyboard players. In order to advance the technical and musical skills of students, in 1783 Türk published two collections of light or easy keyboard sonatas (Leichte Klaviersonaten). Listeners, performers, teachers, and musicologists will discover untapped riches in these expressive and historically important works, played on this recording on four contrasting historical keyboards.

This recording was made on period instruments:
CD1, Sonata No. 2: CD2, Sinfonia No. 2, Sonata No. 3 and Sinfonia No. 6: Johan Andreas Stein Grand Piano (1784);
CD1, Sonata No. 4; CD2, Sonata No. 5: Stein Upright Grand Piano (1820)
CD1, Sonatas Nos. 3 and 5; CD2, Sonata No. 4: Sodi Grand Piano (1785);
CD1, Sonatas Nos. 1 and 6; CD2, Sonata No. 2: Shudi and Broadwood Harpsichord (1781)