Enter the glorious but intimate sound-world of solo voice and theorbo in a programme that lets the battle cry of women resound down the centuries. The sensations and emotions of female abandonment and lament – familiar from stories of women such as Dido and Ariadne – are re-examined in songs by 17th-century composers male and female. Owain Park’s Battle Cry considers the subject from a 21stcentury viewpoint, giving so-called ‘abandoned women’ a platform for their own voices in texts by Georgia Way that bring the voices of Boudicca, Philomela, Marietta and Sappho into focus, as we ask what they might say today.