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Last night we were again rehearsing for our Chelsea Festival concert on the 24th June. We obviously must have been making some sort of nice noise in one of my pieces, because the caretaker of the venue where we were rehearsing came up to me and asked if any of my stuff had been recorded.

We've reached the point where much progress has been made, and in my new pieces I am constantly aware of the difficulties which I did not intend, the tricky passages which have slipped under my radar (not a difficult thing to do, I must admit. I'm never very good at assessing the real difficulty of pieces). Its the moment when you need to have confidence, you know that everything will come right in the end.

Tonight, its more opera. Bellini's I Puritani given by Chelsea Opera Group at Cadogan Hall in Chelsea.