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Elizabeth Alker introduces performances from the recent Oxford International Festival of Song alongside recent recordings from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ SymphonyOrchestra, plus the Ora Singers, live from Wigmore Hall.

The Oxford International Song Festival is one of the biggest and most distinctive celebrations of art song in the country, this year it hosts a Radio 3 New Generation Day foregrounding the work of current and past singers on the scheme. Classical Live brings you recordings from Oxford across the week.

Also in today's programme the first in a sequence of recent recordings from Elizabeth's "orchestra in focus" - the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra. Today they perform Stravinsky's fairground inspried ballet Petrushka.

But today's programme begins with a live concert from Wigmore Hall given by the Ora Singers.

1300 LIVE FROM WIGMORE HALL

Bob Chilcott – The Isle is full of noises
Richard Allain – If music be the food of love
Jonathan Dove – Ariel: Come unto these yellow sands
Michael Cavendish – Come, gentle swains
Thomas Morley arr. Percy Grainger – O mistress mine
Orlando Gibbons – What is our life?
John Tavener – Song for Athene
Libby Larsen – A Lover’s Journey: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Philip Dutton – New Commission
Jonathan Dove – Ariel: Is there more toil?
John Bennet – All things now are merry-minded
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi – 4 Shakespeare Songs
ORA Singers
Lucy Cox (soprano)
Suzi Digby (conductor)
Andrew McGregor (presenter)

2.10pm
From the Oxford International Festival of Song:

Giuseppe Verdi – String Quartet in E minor
Chaos Quartet

Richard Strauss – Das Rosenband, Op.36 No.1
Richard Strauss – Ruhe, meine Seele!. Op.27 No.1
Richard Strauss – Winterweihe, Op.48 No.4
Richard Strauss – Morgen!, Op.27 No.4
Richard Strauss – Cäcilie, Op.27 No.2
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Michael Pandya (piano)

3pm

Igor Stravinsky – Petrushka (1947 version)
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra
Adam Hickox (conductor) 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet in B flat major, K.159 "Milanese“
Chaos Quartet

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