[1] Binns is a noted authority on British piano music, his repertoire thereof including works by Arnold Bax, Richard Rodney Bennett, William Sterndale Bennett (he has recorded 5 of the 6 piano concertos),[1] Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Hamilton Harty, John Ireland, Patrick Piggott, Alan Rawsthorne, Edmund Rubbra and Charles Villiers Stanford.
His recordings include the first complete recording of the Beethoven sonatas on original instruments, concertos by Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov, the Transcendental Studies of Lyapunov, works by Hummel and Medtner, as well as works from the standard repertoire by Bartók, Brahms, Chopin, Falla, Franck, Saint-Saëns, Gershwin, Grieg, Liszt, Mozart, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Schumann.
[3][4] Binns retained the same piano tuner, Alfred E Clark of Wandsworth through his performing career.
Clark, was a manufacturer of pianos from their shop and factory on Wandsworth Road, destroyed in an air raid in WW2.
[2] He has appeared with many other orchestras and conductors internationally and performed on numerous BBC radio broadcasts.