St Cecilia’s Hall is the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland, dating from 1763. In 1968 it became home to the Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments.

This already world famous collection was further enhanced in 2005 when the University of Edinburgh received the extraordinary gift of 22 historic keyboard instruments from Rodger and Lynne Mirrey; the galleries at St Cecilia’s Hall now house one of the two most comprehensive collections of early keyboard instruments in the world.

Contents:
Louis Couperin
- 1-5 Suite in C major
Double-manual harpsichord (4478) Luigi Baillon, Cyteux, 1755

Anonymous
- Two Renaissance dances Dutch 16th century: Almande prynce, Fusi pavana piana
Triple-fretted clavichord (4486) possibly Flemish, c. 1620

Haydn
- Adagio in G (Hob. XV/22), Fantasia in C (Hob. XVII/4)
Grand pianoforte (4492) Johann Friedrich Kuhlbörs, Breslau, c.1805

Purcell
- Suit of Lessons in C
Blow
- Mortlack’s Ground
Single-manual harpsichord (4479) Thomas Barton, London, 1709

Froberger
- Lamento sopra la dolora perdita della Real Msta, Di Ferdinando IV, Ré de Romani
J S Bach
- Suite in F minor BWV 823
Unfretted clavichord (4487) possibly Dresden, c.1740

Pasquini
- Alemanda, Corrente
Virginal (4484) Honofrio Guarracino, Naples, 1678

Byrd
- 22 Pavan: Bray [MB XXVIII, 59a, b], Galliard
Frescobaldi
- Toccata nona (1637)
Single-manual harpsichord (4471) Bernardinus de Trasuntinis, Venice, 1574

Scarlatti
- Toccata decima in F
Single-manual harpsichord (4473) Franciscus de Paulinis, Rimini, 1725

Mendelssohn
- Three Songs Without Words
Grand pianoforte (4490) John Broadwood, London, 1793