Cécile McLorin Salvant, who was recently named Female Vocalist of the Year in DownBeat's Critics Poll once again, has released the video for her performance of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns," from her new album, With Every Breath I Take. The video was made by and stars drag artist X. You can watch it below. The album, Salvant's first with orchestra, features The Netherlands’ Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley. Salvant and the ensemble perform timeless songs—by Sondheim, Coleman, Coward, Ellington, Strayhorn, and Salvant—newly arranged by composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue.

Salvant, who has performed with orchestras regularly over the last decade-and-a-half and intended to make an album with one sooner in her career, but logistics and her abundant creative ideas led to other new projects intervening. Having finally found time to make this album, With Every Breath I Take is a different sort of record than it might have been even ten years ago.

“It is a rare opportunity to be able to make an album at this scale, which has been a dream of mine for many years,” Salvant says. “Darcy James Argue wrote stunning arrangements and the Metropole Orkest, conducted by the extraordinary Jules Buckley, gave these stories a cinematic dimension. We overcame quite a few obstacles to even get into the recording studio for this project; it took almost four years for us to do so, and I am so incredibly proud to share it.

“I did not choose these songs because they are beautiful, but because they are crucial to me,” she adds.