It is a very tricky area geting the voices right for this sort of thing

Indeed. To my ear, in this instance we were presented with utterly the wrong voices: the baritone lacking the gravitas and power needed for the more operatic and 'trained' numbers, whilst demonstrating some distinctly dodgy vocal technique; and the lady's style wholly anachronistic for the period.

The specially-done arrangements seemed to me far too simplistic to be convincing, and that of the final song ludicrously inappropriate. It's an indictment of the other items, I fear, that the setting by Henry Balfour Gardiner of The Hangman's Song, a piece I know but have never considered remotely worth performing, came over as the only authentic composition in the programme.

Such a shame; such a wasted opportunity.