(Photo credits: Crowley, Cadisch, & Simpson)

The Oxford International Song Festival has announced its 2024 season lineup.

Baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Natalie Burch open the Festival with Schubert’s “Schwanengesang.”

Performance Date: October 11, 2024

Soprano Carolyn Sampson and pianist Joseph Middleton present a works by Robert and Clara Schumann.

Performance Date: October 12, 2024

Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton present Mahler’s “Rückert Lieder,” along with songs by Brahms, Debussy, Bridge, Moeran, Gurney, and Ireland.

Performance Date: October 13, 2024

Tenor Christoph Prégardien along with the Festival’s Artistic Director Sholto Kynoch give a concert featuring pieces by Schubert and Schumann.

Performance Date: October 14, 2024

Commissioned for this year’s Festival, Indian- American composer Reena Esmail’s settings of Sanskrit verses from the “Bhagavad Gita,” is presented by contralto Jess Dandy and pianist Keval Shah.

Performance Date: October 15, 2024

A concert of Brahms is performed by baritone Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber at the piano.

Performance Date: October 16, 2024

“Liebeslieder Walzer” is presented in association with BBC Radio 3, by Elizabeth Watts, Kathryn Rudge, Ben Johnson, James Atkinson, Michael Pandya, and pianist Sholto Kynoch,

Performance Date: October 17, 2024

The Schubert & Co. ensemble featuring Harriet Burns, Katy Thomson Katie Bray, Bethan Langford, Alessandro Fisher, Frederick Long, and Sholto Kynoch perform in “A Schubertiade.”

Performance Date: October 18, 2024

Soprano Sophie Karthäuser and pianist Eugene Asti present “Love and Love Betrayed,” a concert of works by Schubert.

Performance Date: October 19, 2024

Schubert’s “Winterreise” is performed by baritone Christopher Maltman and pianist Audrey Saint-Gil.

Performance Date: October 20, 2024

Music by Fauré is performed by baritone Stéphane Degout and pianist Simon Lepper.

Performance Date: October 21, 2024

Tenor James Gilchrist and pianist Anna Tilbrook offer audiences works by Lili Boulanger, Muriel Herbert, Roger Quilter and Gustav Mahler in “The Earth has Music.”

Performance Date: October 22, 2024

Works from Schubert and Fanny Mendelssohn, Fauré and Chaminade, to Britten and Beach are presented by soprano Lucy Crowe and Anna Tilbrook.

Performance Date: October 23, 2024

Baritone Will Liverman and pianist Jonathan King take the stage in “Schubert, Burleigh, Larsen.”

Performance Date: October 24, 2024

Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and Sholto Kynoch present juxtaposing works from the Baroque with Romantic and contemporary songs in “Notes of Old.”

Performance Date: October 25, 2024

Tenor Nicky Spence, The Piatti String Quartet and Julius Drak close the Festival with “La bonne Chanson.”

Performance Date: October 26, 2024