A sequence of songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny. The performance also includes discussion on the themes of women鈥檚 voices in antiquity, and their echoes in later culture.

Programme to include music by Blow, F. Caccini, Handel and Purcell.

There will be one interval

Broadcast live on 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3

Image: Nardus Williams 漏 Bertie Watson