Today we head home briefly before travelling to Northern Ireland tomorrow evening. We've had a great visit over the last few days to Norway and Sweden. Here in Sweden we've performed two church concerts, first in St Nikolai's church in Halmstad on Saturday, and then last night in Uppsala Cathedral. Both were lovely places to sing, with generous acoustics. Uppsala Cathedral is the largest church in the Nordic countries, and has a beautiful painted ceiling. In both venues we performed the same programme, including Geoffrey Poole's 1970 King's Singers commission Wymondham Chants. We haven't sung this for a few years, so it was the first performances of this set of four settings of medieval texts for half of the group. It really is a fantastically atmospheric work, which has a strong effect on the audience. In the last movement, Blessed Jesu, three of us go to the furthest corner of the building, before slowly proceeding back towards the other three. Right at the end all six join together on the word "Blessed" - it's always a spine-tingling moment for me. The programme had other spine-tingling music, notably two settings of "Versa est in luctum", one by Padilla and the other by Lobo. We also performed Eric Whitacre's beautiful "Lux Aurumque", and we're delighted to be joined by the young Swedish vocal group, UGGE, for last night's version, who then also provided the second choir parts for "You are the new day" and for "And so it goes". Uppsala really is a city of singers. It has 150 choirs in a city of 200,000 people. Of course both Norway and Sweden are great places for singing, and we can't wait to be come back.
Today we head home briefly before travelling to Northern Ireland tomorrow evening. We've had a great visit over the last few days to Norway and Sweden. Here in Sweden we've performed two church concerts, first in St Nikolai's church in Halmstad on Saturday, and then last night in Uppsala Cathedral. Both were lovely places to sing, with generous acoustics. Uppsala Cathedral is the largest church in the Nordic countries, and has a beautiful painted ceiling. In both venues we performed the same programme, including Geoffrey Poole's 1970 King's Singers commission Wymondham Chants. We haven't sung this for a few years, so it was the first performances of this set of four settings of medieval texts for half of the group. It really is a fantastically atmospheric work, which has a strong effect on the audience. In the last movement, Blessed Jesu, three of us go to the furthest corner of the building, before slowly proceeding back towards the other three. Right at the end all six join together on the word "Blessed" - it's always a spine-tingling moment for me. The programme had other spine-tingling music, notably two settings of "Versa est in luctum", one by Padilla and the other by Lobo. We also performed Eric Whitacre's beautiful "Lux Aurumque", and we're delighted to be joined by the young Swedish vocal group, UGGE, for last night's version, who then also provided the second choir parts for "You are the new day" and for "And so it goes". Uppsala really is a city of singers. It has 150 choirs in a city of 200,000 people. Of course both Norway and Sweden are great places for singing, and we can't wait to be come back.
Today we head home briefly before travelling to Northern Ireland tomorrow evening. We've had a great visit over the last few days to Norway and Sweden. Here in Sweden we've performed two church concerts, first in St Nikolai's church in Halmstad on Saturday, and then last night in Uppsala Cathedral. Both were lovely places to sing, with generous acoustics. Uppsala Cathedral is the largest church in the Nordic countries, and has a beautiful painted ceiling. In both venues we performed the same programme, including Geoffrey Poole's 1970 King's Singers commission Wymondham Chants. We haven't sung this for a few years, so it was the first performances of this set of four settings of medieval texts for half of the group. It really is a fantastically atmospheric work, which has a strong effect on the audience. In the last movement, Blessed Jesu, three of us go to the furthest corner of the building, before slowly proceeding back towards the other three. Right at the end all six join together on the word "Blessed" - it's always a spine-tingling moment for me. The programme had other spine-tingling music, notably two settings of "Versa est in luctum", one by Padilla and the other by Lobo. We also performed Eric Whitacre's beautiful "Lux Aurumque", and we're delighted to be joined by the young Swedish vocal group, UGGE, for last night's version, who then also provided the second choir parts for "You are the new day" and for "And so it goes". Uppsala really is a city of singers. It has 150 choirs in a city of 200,000 people. Of course both Norway and Sweden are great places for singing, and we can't wait to be come back.
Today we head home briefly before travelling to Northern Ireland tomorrow evening. We've had a great visit over the last few days to Norway and Sweden. Here in Sweden we've performed two church concerts, first in St Nikolai's church in Halmstad on Saturday, and then last night in Uppsala Cathedral. Both were lovely places to sing, with generous acoustics. Uppsala Cathedral is the largest church in the Nordic countries, and has a beautiful painted ceiling. In both venues we performed the same programme, including Geoffrey Poole's 1970 King's Singers commission Wymondham Chants. We haven't sung this for a few years, so it was the first performances of this set of four settings of medieval texts for half of the group. It really is a fantastically atmospheric work, which has a strong effect on the audience. In the last movement, Blessed Jesu, three of us go to the furthest corner of the building, before slowly proceeding back towards the other three. Right at the end all six join together on the word "Blessed" - it's always a spine-tingling moment for me. The programme had other spine-tingling music, notably two settings of "Versa est in luctum", one by Padilla and the other by Lobo. We also performed Eric Whitacre's beautiful "Lux Aurumque", and we're delighted to be joined by the young Swedish vocal group, UGGE, for last night's version, who then also provided the second choir parts for "You are the new day" and for "And so it goes". Uppsala really is a city of singers. It has 150 choirs in a city of 200,000 people. Of course both Norway and Sweden are great places for singing, and we can't wait to be come back.
Today we head home briefly before travelling to Northern Ireland tomorrow evening. We've had a great visit over the last few days to Norway and Sweden. Here in Sweden we've performed two church concerts, first in St Nikolai's church in Halmstad on Saturday, and then last night in Uppsala Cathedral. Both were lovely places to sing, with generous acoustics. Uppsala Cathedral is the largest church in the Nordic countries, and has a beautiful painted ceiling. In both venues we performed the same programme, including Geoffrey Poole's 1970 King's Singers commission Wymondham Chants. We haven't sung this for a few years, so it was the first performances of this set of four settings of medieval texts for half of the group. It really is a fantastically atmospheric work, which has a strong effect on the audience. In the last movement, Blessed Jesu, three of us go to the furthest corner of the building, before slowly proceeding back towards the other three. Right at the end all six join together on the word "Blessed" - it's always a spine-tingling moment for me. The programme had other spine-tingling music, notably two settings of "Versa est in luctum", one by Padilla and the other by Lobo. We also performed Eric Whitacre's beautiful "Lux Aurumque", and we're delighted to be joined by the young Swedish vocal group, UGGE, for last night's version, who then also provided the second choir parts for "You are the new day" and for "And so it goes". Uppsala really is a city of singers. It has 150 choirs in a city of 200,000 people. Of course both Norway and Sweden are great places for singing, and we can't wait to be come back.
Today we head home briefly before travelling to Northern Ireland tomorrow evening. We've had a great visit over the last few days to Norway and Sweden. Here in Sweden we've performed two church concerts, first in St Nikolai's church in Halmstad on Saturday, and then last night in Uppsala Cathedral. Both were lovely places to sing, with generous acoustics. Uppsala Cathedral is the largest church in the Nordic countries, and has a beautiful painted ceiling. In both venues we performed the same programme, including Geoffrey Poole's 1970 King's Singers commission Wymondham Chants. We haven't sung this for a few years, so it was the first performances of this set of four settings of medieval texts for half of the group. It really is a fantastically atmospheric work, which has a strong effect on the audience. In the last movement, Blessed Jesu, three of us go to the furthest corner of the building, before slowly proceeding back towards the other three. Right at the end all six join together on the word "Blessed" - it's always a spine-tingling moment for me. The programme had other spine-tingling music, notably two settings of "Versa est in luctum", one by Padilla and the other by Lobo. We also performed Eric Whitacre's beautiful "Lux Aurumque", and we're delighted to be joined by the young Swedish vocal group, UGGE, for last night's version, who then also provided the second choir parts for "You are the new day" and for "And so it goes". Uppsala really is a city of singers. It has 150 choirs in a city of 200,000 people. Of course both Norway and Sweden are great places for singing, and we can't wait to be come back.
Today we head home briefly before travelling to Northern Ireland tomorrow evening. We've had a great visit over the last few days to Norway and Sweden. Here in Sweden we've performed two church concerts, first in St Nikolai's church in Halmstad on Saturday, and then last night in Uppsala Cathedral. Both were lovely places to sing, with generous acoustics. Uppsala Cathedral is the largest church in the Nordic countries, and has a beautiful painted ceiling. In both venues we performed the same programme, including Geoffrey Poole's 1970 King's Singers commission Wymondham Chants. We haven't sung this for a few years, so it was the first performances of this set of four settings of medieval texts for half of the group. It really is a fantastically atmospheric work, which has a strong effect on the audience. In the last movement, Blessed Jesu, three of us go to the furthest corner of the building, before slowly proceeding back towards the other three. Right at the end all six join together on the word "Blessed" - it's always a spine-tingling moment for me. The programme had other spine-tingling music, notably two settings of "Versa est in luctum", one by Padilla and the other by Lobo. We also performed Eric Whitacre's beautiful "Lux Aurumque", and we're delighted to be joined by the young Swedish vocal group, UGGE, for last night's version, who then also provided the second choir parts for "You are the new day" and for "And so it goes". Uppsala really is a city of singers. It has 150 choirs in a city of 200,000 people. Of course both Norway and Sweden are great places for singing, and we can't wait to be come back.
