Michael Tsalka, Professor of Harpsichord and Chamber Music at the Escuela Superior de Música (National Center for the Arts) in Mexico City, spent more than a week at the NMM in early August 2010, recording twelve sonatas by Daniel Gottlob Türk on five of the NMM's historic keyboards (see complete list below). The recordings—the first to feature the NMM's instruments by Kraemer, Silbermann, Spath & Schmahl, and Thym--are scheduled to be released by Naxos as a two-CD set. In addition, Tsalka is preparing a critical edition of these same sonatas for Artaria Editions (New Zealand).

Tsalka's recording sessions followed a performance for the NMM's popular Brown Bag Lunch Program series on July 30, at which he played works by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Emanuel Bach, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Wolfgang A. Mozart, and Luigi Cherubini on the NMM's Tangentenflügel by Frantz Jakob Spath & Christoph Friedrich Schmahl, Regensburg, 178[4] (NMM 4145) and the NMM's clavichord by Johann Paul Kraemer and Sons, Göttingen, 1804 (NMM 3335).

Right:  Tsalka plays the NMM's spinet by Johann Heinrich Silbermann, Strasbourg, 1785 (NMM 6205).

Instruments used in Tsalka's recordings included:

• NMM 3335. Clavichord by Johann Paul Kraemer and Sons, Göttingen, 1804
• NMM 4145. Tangentenflügel by Frantz Jacob Spath & Christoph Friedrich Schmahl, Regensburg, 178[4] (pictured at left)
• NMM 6205. Spinet by Johann Heinrich Silbermann, Strasbourg, 1785
• NMM 3587. Grand piano by Anton Martin Thÿm, Vienna, ca. 1815
• NMM 3328. Harpsichord by Joseph Kirckman, London, 1798

The NMM's spinet by Johann Heinrich Silbermann, Strasbourg, 1785 is recorded.

Tsalka plays the NMM's grand piano by Anton Martin Thÿm, Vienna, ca. 1815