Soprano: Penelope Appleyard
Piano: Jonathan Delbridge
West-country based voice and piano duo Penelope Appleyard and Jonathan Delbridge curate and perform creative and entertaining recital programmes celebrating domestic music of the Regency period. Frequently to be found in period costume, chauffeuring 209-year-old Lady Catherine (a Broadwood square piano) around the UK in a Skoda estate, Penelope and Jonathan began performing together in the year of the Jane Austen’s 250th Anniversary. The duo have already given sold-out performances at Newbury Spring Festival and Jane Austen’s House, as well as many other series throughout the UK. The recital includes Ode to Pity – a rare musical setting of one of Austen’s poems commissioned especially for this programme.
