Jane's Hand: The Jane Austen Songbooks - Romantic Classical Music for Reading, Tea Time & Relaxation

The lovely voice of Juliette Baird, with several other artists, delights in this selection of works taken from Jane Austen's music manuscripts. Music by Handel, Storace, Dibdin and other 18th-century composers performed with style and charm, and with humour when called for. This is a more aesthetically pleasing album than Baird's later 'Jane Austen's Songbook', which is laudable in the completeness with which it includes the contents of one of Austen's songbooks, but suffers a little by the randomness of the arrangement and is not as well recorded.