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16 / 08 / 2010 - The King's Singers review in The Observer

On Saturday 7 August The King's Singers performed in the Three Choirs Festival at Tewkesbury Abbey to a sold out audience. Below is a review by Fiona Maddocks from The Observer.

The Three Choirs festival, centred in Gloucester this season, has always been fearful of adventure, and loyal to its local stars, Elgar and Vaughan Williams. This year, with a new director in Adrian Partington, there's a perceptible rustle of change in the air. I caught the opening concert, by the King's Singers, in the serene splendour of Tewkesbury Abbey. A sacred first half spanned Hildegard of Bingen to John McCabe, Ivan Moody and Henryk Górecki. Part two was pure fun: clever close-harmony arrangements of Gilbert and Sullivan by former King's singer Bob Chilcott, and a group of folk songs reinvented by members past and present. Just as Hockney chose a limited palette for Rake, so does this ensemble, which can make of six unaccompanied voices a microcosmos and a miracle.

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