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Mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones and pianist Simon Lepper play music by Joseph Horovitz, Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Errollyn Wallen.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from Birmingham's Bradshaw Hall.

Joseph Horovitz: Lady Macbeth – a scena
Ethel Smyth: Lieder, Op. 4
Rebecca Clarke: The Seal Man
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Four Last Songs
Errollyn Wallen: Lady Super Spy Adventurer

The sheer wealth and beauty of English poetry has been a continual inspiration to British composers. Since winning the Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at Â鶹Éç Cardiff Singer of the World 2021 mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones has become one of the most sought-after voices on both the operatic stage and the concert platform – with one critic writing that she ‘stole the stage at every movement’ in English National Opera’s recent The Cunning Little Vixen. Today, with pianist Simon Lepper, she celebrates the songs of 2022 Proms featured composers Vaughan Williams and Ethel Smyth, brings all her theatrical flair to a Shakespeare sketch by the late Joseph Horovitz, and sings something entirely new from Proms favourite Errollyn Wallen.