72 MINUTES OF SOLO PIANO MUSIC FROM THE REGENCY PERIODIn October 1996 I had a really good idea.
What if all my favorite fictional characters from Jane Austen novels went to a piano concert together?
I’ve always loved Jane Austen. The period, the characters, the settings—I can’t remember ever not considering myself a bit of an Anglophile. Shortly after I had finished my doctoral degree in piano performance at USC and begun applying for openings at various universities, I was reading Sense and Sensibility for the umpteenth time and rehearsing for a performance of Hayden’s Sonata in C when the idea struck me: Austen could easily have been a fan of this very piece. That thought started me on a …
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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. …