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Elizabeth Alker introduces performances from the recent Oxford International Song Festival alongside recent recordings from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra, 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 Artists 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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Today they perform Stravinsky's fairground inspired ballet Petrouchka.

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 Song Festival:

Giuseppe Verdi
String Quartet in E minor
Chaos Quartet

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

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3pm

Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka (1947 version)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Adam Hickox (conductor) 

From the Oxford International Song Festival:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet in B flat major, K.159 "Milanese“
Chaos Quartet