Jane Austen Piano Favourites (2011)

This British release, plainly intended to exploit the gift market among Jane Austen enthusiasts, relies conceptually on the fact that Austen owned a piano, indeed a piano like one of the two heard on the album, apparently played it daily, and possessed a collection of piano music, some of which is heard here. It's hard to determine whether this means, as the booklet note claims, that piano music "seems to have been very much at the heart of Jane Austen's life." Her novels don't have much to say about music, and the ... Read More

This British release, plainly intended to exploit the gift market among Jane Austen enthusiasts, relies conceptually on the fact that Austen owned a piano, indeed a piano like one of the two heard on the album, apparently played it daily, and possessed a collection of piano music, some of which is heard here. It's hard to determine whether this means, as the booklet note claims, that piano music "seems to have been very much at the heart of Jane Austen's life." Her novels don't have much to say about music, and the compilers resort to a letter from Jane to Caroline Austen as an epigraph. Moreover, the majority of the music on the album doesn't qualify under the promised "Jane Austen piano favourites" category. The association with Muzio Clementi is purely chronological and pretty debatable. The common feature of the genuine Austen collection pieces here is that they're very simple technically, which isn't true of Clementi. The evidence for a connection between Austen and Haydn is hardly stronger,... Read Less

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