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The Oxford International Song Festival celebrates 25 years of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, with members past and present. Elizabeth Watts and Kathryn Rudge are joined by current members Santiago Sanchez, James Atkinson and Michael Pandya. Oxford Song’s Artistic Director Sholto Kynoch joins the party in a programme that takes a whirlwind tour of dance-inspired songs by composers from Robert and Clara Schumann to Witold Lutosławski, before concluding with Brahms’s exuberant Liebeslieder Walzer.

Recorded earlier this month at the Holywell Music Room and introduced by Ian Skelly.

Schubert: Der Tanz D826
Schubert: Seligkeit D433
Mahler: Hans und Grethe no.3 (from Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugenzeit)
Schubert: Auf dem Wazzer su singen D774
Lowe: Erlkonig, Op.1'3

Finzi: The Dance Continued, Op.14 (from A Young Man's Exhortation)
William Denis Browne: To Gratiana Dancing and Singing
Holst: Persephone
Lutoslawski: Tarantella
Chopin: Mazurka Op.24'1
Bizet: Adieu de l'hotesse arabe
Ginastera: Arrorro and Gato (from 5 Canciones populares Argentinas)

Brahms: Selected Waltzes Op.39 (nos1-6)

Clara Schumann: Walzer
Schumann: Seit ich ihn gesehen Op.42'1 (from Frauenliebe und leben)
Schumann: Das ist ein Floten und Geigen (from Dichterliebe)
Schumann: Tanzlied, Op.78'1 (from Vier Duette)

Brahms: Liebeslieder Walzer Op.52

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)
Santiago Sanchez (tenor)
James Atkinson (baritone)
Sholto Kynoch (piano),
Michael Pandya (piano)