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• Great to see so many young musicians at our concert in Canterbury last night; Christ Church is clearly a hotbed of talent! Rest day today for us, then off to Finland tomorrow for the weekend's concerts at the Vaasa Festival, where we've been regular guests for a few years. More Royal Rhymes and Rounds! read
• Catch us singing some wonderful contemporary classical music tomorrow in Canterbury! John McCabe's "Scenes in America Deserta," Paul Patterson's "Timepiece" and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' "Sea Runes," all written for the KS. Plus, the second performance of our humorous look at the monarchs of Britain, Paul Drayton's "Brief Guide to the Royal Succession," which should have you rolling in the aisles! read
• It's been a quiet few days.... we travelled to Germany on Thursday and sang in Rheydt (after an absence of 8 years), premiering another new programme of Gesualdo, Poulenc and Britten in anticipation of their anniversary year in 2013. This programme will see quite a few more outings and combines some old KS favourites (Gesualso's Tenebrae Responsories, Poulenc's Quatre Petite Prieres) with some new repertoire, including Poulenc's beautiful "Vinea Mea Electa" and Gesualdo's extraordinary "O Vos Omnes." From there we enjoyed the punctuality and reliability of Deutsche Bahn to carry us safely down to the south-west, near Saarbrucken, for tonight's Royal Rhymes and Rounds concert. Five of us went running yesterday, in preparation for various races we seem to have got ourselves signed up for - including in January 2013 a charity half-marathon in aid of the KS Foundation! Dragging our aching limbs out of bed was tough this morning, but running through forests during a thunderstorm was certainly an invigorating experience, overall! This group is getting far too fit.... read
• The Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi is a long-standing favourite venue of ours; a few years ago, we were privileged to work with the Conservatorio chorus in a masterclass. They sang two songs from Mendelssohn's cycle "Die Erste Fruehlingstag" (The First day of Spring) and we loved them so much that we bought the set and performed them for the first time in Leipzin's Gewandhaus last September. We got them out again for the Heidelberg Spring Festival in April, and they're becoming cornerstone pieces in our romantic repertoire. It'll be great to be onstage again here in Turin tonight. read

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