.png)
"Absolutely wonderful!"
Jane Austen's House
"This deserves to go viral!"
Newbury Spring Festival
Penelope Appleyard - Soprano
Jonathan Delbridge - Piano
"The highest musical standards" - Director, Newbury Spring Festival
"They created an extraordinary atmosphere...
the audience were completely spellbound."
- Jane Austen's House
West-Country based voice and piano partnership Penelope Appleyard and Jonathan Delbridge perform creative and entertaining recital programmes on historical themes. They are currently focussing on domestic music of the Regency era.
​
Frequently to be found in period costume, chauffeuring 209 year old Broadwood square piano Lady Catherine around the UK in a Skoda estate, Penelope and Jonathan are currently touring their programme 'Sense & Musicality' on the theme of Jane Austen and Music, in celebration of the writer's 250th Anniversary. This features brand new commission 'Ode to Pity', a rare setting of an Austen poem by composer Donna McKevitt. The track will be released in September, with a launch concert
at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath.
​
​
​
New Release!
To celebrate Jane Austen's 250th Anniversary this year, we are releasing three special tracks.​
​
'Song From Burns' was released on 8th August - one of Jane's favourite songs that she played and sang herself.
​
​
Stream/Download Song From Burns: orcd.co/songfromburns
"Her clear, fresh-sounding soprano is ideal for this type of repertoire"
- Brian Robins
Stream/Download Robin Adair at: https://orcd.co/robinadair
Haydn's Pastoral Song
Contact Us
