I'm writing this a day early as I will be rather busy tomorrow. We will be beginning a four day patch of recording sessions in London for our next CD, featuring some sublime works by the great Renaissance master, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. We're recording some new editions by Dr David Skinner, which we worked on last week in Cambridge, also performing them in the beautiful chapel at Sidney Sussex College. The CD will combine settings of texts from the Song of Songs with antiphons in praise of the Virgin Mary. It's all rather sumptuous music, and I'm really looking forward to it. We will be joined by our favourite recording engineer, Mike Hatch, and by my former KS countertenor colleague, Nigel Short, who will be producing the album.Tonight I'm heading to one of the KS's favourite UK venues, Reading Concert Hall, to be an audience member at a concert for once, rather than a participant on the stage. I'm going to hear Nigel's marvellous group, Tenebrae, performing their Russian music programme. I've been trying to get to one of their concerts for ages, and they happen to be quite close by on an evening off. I'm really looking forward to it.Lastly, I'd like to send the group's congratulations to the Scottish composer, James MacMillan, on his knighthood, awarded this weekend in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. It is such a well-deserved award to one of the UK's leading composers. We commissioned a work from James last year, and the wonderful result was "A Rumoured Seed". We will performing the piece in a concert at James's festival, Cumnock Tryst, in the Autumn, along with other performances around the world.
I'm writing this a day early as I will be rather busy tomorrow. We will be beginning a four day patch of recording sessions in London for our next CD, featuring some sublime works by the great Renaissance master, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. We're recording some new editions by Dr David Skinner, which we worked on last week in Cambridge, also performing them in the beautiful chapel at Sidney Sussex College. The CD will combine settings of texts from the Song of Songs with antiphons in praise of the Virgin Mary. It's all rather sumptuous music, and I'm really looking forward to it. We will be joined by our favourite recording engineer, Mike Hatch, and by my former KS countertenor colleague, Nigel Short, who will be producing the album.Tonight I'm heading to one of the KS's favourite UK venues, Reading Concert Hall, to be an audience member at a concert for once, rather than a participant on the stage. I'm going to hear Nigel's marvellous group, Tenebrae, performing their Russian music programme. I've been trying to get to one of their concerts for ages, and they happen to be quite close by on an evening off. I'm really looking forward to it.Lastly, I'd like to send the group's congratulations to the Scottish composer, James MacMillan, on his knighthood, awarded this weekend in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. It is such a well-deserved award to one of the UK's leading composers. We commissioned a work from James last year, and the wonderful result was "A Rumoured Seed". We will performing the piece in a concert at James's festival, Cumnock Tryst, in the Autumn, along with other performances around the world.
I'm writing this a day early as I will be rather busy tomorrow. We will be beginning a four day patch of recording sessions in London for our next CD, featuring some sublime works by the great Renaissance master, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. We're recording some new editions by Dr David Skinner, which we worked on last week in Cambridge, also performing them in the beautiful chapel at Sidney Sussex College. The CD will combine settings of texts from the Song of Songs with antiphons in praise of the Virgin Mary. It's all rather sumptuous music, and I'm really looking forward to it. We will be joined by our favourite recording engineer, Mike Hatch, and by my former KS countertenor colleague, Nigel Short, who will be producing the album.Tonight I'm heading to one of the KS's favourite UK venues, Reading Concert Hall, to be an audience member at a concert for once, rather than a participant on the stage. I'm going to hear Nigel's marvellous group, Tenebrae, performing their Russian music programme. I've been trying to get to one of their concerts for ages, and they happen to be quite close by on an evening off. I'm really looking forward to it.Lastly, I'd like to send the group's congratulations to the Scottish composer, James MacMillan, on his knighthood, awarded this weekend in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. It is such a well-deserved award to one of the UK's leading composers. We commissioned a work from James last year, and the wonderful result was "A Rumoured Seed". We will performing the piece in a concert at James's festival, Cumnock Tryst, in the Autumn, along with other performances around the world.
I'm writing this a day early as I will be rather busy tomorrow. We will be beginning a four day patch of recording sessions in London for our next CD, featuring some sublime works by the great Renaissance master, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. We're recording some new editions by Dr David Skinner, which we worked on last week in Cambridge, also performing them in the beautiful chapel at Sidney Sussex College. The CD will combine settings of texts from the Song of Songs with antiphons in praise of the Virgin Mary. It's all rather sumptuous music, and I'm really looking forward to it. We will be joined by our favourite recording engineer, Mike Hatch, and by my former KS countertenor colleague, Nigel Short, who will be producing the album.Tonight I'm heading to one of the KS's favourite UK venues, Reading Concert Hall, to be an audience member at a concert for once, rather than a participant on the stage. I'm going to hear Nigel's marvellous group, Tenebrae, performing their Russian music programme. I've been trying to get to one of their concerts for ages, and they happen to be quite close by on an evening off. I'm really looking forward to it.Lastly, I'd like to send the group's congratulations to the Scottish composer, James MacMillan, on his knighthood, awarded this weekend in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. It is such a well-deserved award to one of the UK's leading composers. We commissioned a work from James last year, and the wonderful result was "A Rumoured Seed". We will performing the piece in a concert at James's festival, Cumnock Tryst, in the Autumn, along with other performances around the world.
I'm writing this a day early as I will be rather busy tomorrow. We will be beginning a four day patch of recording sessions in London for our next CD, featuring some sublime works by the great Renaissance master, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. We're recording some new editions by Dr David Skinner, which we worked on last week in Cambridge, also performing them in the beautiful chapel at Sidney Sussex College. The CD will combine settings of texts from the Song of Songs with antiphons in praise of the Virgin Mary. It's all rather sumptuous music, and I'm really looking forward to it. We will be joined by our favourite recording engineer, Mike Hatch, and by my former KS countertenor colleague, Nigel Short, who will be producing the album.Tonight I'm heading to one of the KS's favourite UK venues, Reading Concert Hall, to be an audience member at a concert for once, rather than a participant on the stage. I'm going to hear Nigel's marvellous group, Tenebrae, performing their Russian music programme. I've been trying to get to one of their concerts for ages, and they happen to be quite close by on an evening off. I'm really looking forward to it.Lastly, I'd like to send the group's congratulations to the Scottish composer, James MacMillan, on his knighthood, awarded this weekend in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. It is such a well-deserved award to one of the UK's leading composers. We commissioned a work from James last year, and the wonderful result was "A Rumoured Seed". We will performing the piece in a concert at James's festival, Cumnock Tryst, in the Autumn, along with other performances around the world.
I'm writing this a day early as I will be rather busy tomorrow. We will be beginning a four day patch of recording sessions in London for our next CD, featuring some sublime works by the great Renaissance master, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. We're recording some new editions by Dr David Skinner, which we worked on last week in Cambridge, also performing them in the beautiful chapel at Sidney Sussex College. The CD will combine settings of texts from the Song of Songs with antiphons in praise of the Virgin Mary. It's all rather sumptuous music, and I'm really looking forward to it. We will be joined by our favourite recording engineer, Mike Hatch, and by my former KS countertenor colleague, Nigel Short, who will be producing the album.Tonight I'm heading to one of the KS's favourite UK venues, Reading Concert Hall, to be an audience member at a concert for once, rather than a participant on the stage. I'm going to hear Nigel's marvellous group, Tenebrae, performing their Russian music programme. I've been trying to get to one of their concerts for ages, and they happen to be quite close by on an evening off. I'm really looking forward to it.Lastly, I'd like to send the group's congratulations to the Scottish composer, James MacMillan, on his knighthood, awarded this weekend in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. It is such a well-deserved award to one of the UK's leading composers. We commissioned a work from James last year, and the wonderful result was "A Rumoured Seed". We will performing the piece in a concert at James's festival, Cumnock Tryst, in the Autumn, along with other performances around the world.
I'm writing this a day early as I will be rather busy tomorrow. We will be beginning a four day patch of recording sessions in London for our next CD, featuring some sublime works by the great Renaissance master, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. We're recording some new editions by Dr David Skinner, which we worked on last week in Cambridge, also performing them in the beautiful chapel at Sidney Sussex College. The CD will combine settings of texts from the Song of Songs with antiphons in praise of the Virgin Mary. It's all rather sumptuous music, and I'm really looking forward to it. We will be joined by our favourite recording engineer, Mike Hatch, and by my former KS countertenor colleague, Nigel Short, who will be producing the album.Tonight I'm heading to one of the KS's favourite UK venues, Reading Concert Hall, to be an audience member at a concert for once, rather than a participant on the stage. I'm going to hear Nigel's marvellous group, Tenebrae, performing their Russian music programme. I've been trying to get to one of their concerts for ages, and they happen to be quite close by on an evening off. I'm really looking forward to it.Lastly, I'd like to send the group's congratulations to the Scottish composer, James MacMillan, on his knighthood, awarded this weekend in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. It is such a well-deserved award to one of the UK's leading composers. We commissioned a work from James last year, and the wonderful result was "A Rumoured Seed". We will performing the piece in a concert at James's festival, Cumnock Tryst, in the Autumn, along with other performances around the world.
