Proms at Birmingham (29.08.22)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

13:00 Monday 29 August 2022
Bradshaw Hall, Birmingham

Joseph Horowitz: Lady Macbeth – a scena
Ethel Smyth: Lieder, Op. 4
Rebecca Clarke: The Seal Man
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Four Last Songs
Errollyn Wallen - new work (BBC commission: world première)

Claire Barnett-Jones mezzo-soprano
Simon Lepper piano

[bluestateprommer]

Caught the second half of this "Proms Chamber Music" concert from Brum (normally not up at this hour). Fine work from CB-J and SL, at least from hearing the 2nd half. From hearing the various first names mentioned in the text by Errolyn Wallen in LADY SUPER SPY ADVENTURER, including Chi-Chi Nwanoku, it put me in mind of the 3rd movement of Berio's Sinfonia, in terms of the request from Berio for the vocal ensemble to mention another work on the same concert and to mention the conductor for that concert, i.e. the singer of LSSA should mention her own first name during the proceedings. Will need to catch up with the first half later on, to be sure.