72 MINUTES OF SOLO PIANO MUSIC FROM THE REGENCY PERIOD

While sorting through dozens of CDs on a bleak November evening in 2020, I stumbled upon an album of my own from 1996: Piano Classics from the World of Jane Austen. I hadn’t listened to it in years and suddenly wanted to, so I called a time-out and spent the next seventy-two minutes hearing myself play while juggling my own liner notes, a mug of hot tea, and an amorous black cat named Sooty. …

 
 

Now Available for Purchase

This newly reissued and redesigned 16-track audio CD contains over 72 minutes of solo piano music from the Regency period performed by Dr. Karlyn Bond.

Composers include Haydn, Field, Cramer, Mozart, Clementi, Schobert, and Beethoven.

Available for purchase through The King’s English Bookshop:

$15

RECITAL NARRATIVE AS SEEN IN THE LINER NOTES


On a Wednesday evening in February 1816, several hundred people seated themselves in Bath’s Upper Rooms for what promised to be one of the most unique concerts in recent memory.

The venue was supposed to have been the Tea Room, but the prospect of three famous pianists exhibiting their prowess in a single evening—in what many hoped would be the spirit of a duel—had resulted in the ticket-sales equivalent of a run on the banks, so the Ball Room had been set up instead and was now packed with three distinct, albeit intermingling, constituencies: lovers of self display, lovers of sport, and lovers of music—alas, in decreasing order of size. …