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  Hi, we all loved the show (group of five) on Thursday evening - my kids and friends too making a beeline for the gig.... from the Gallery at the Acorn....and the music of @ClareIngleheart  Jim Carey   Giles King . Thank you for pushing a new boat out and best of luck to @Jaclarabag. It was great to hear both some familiar tunes of Jim's and some new tunes - action movie soundtracks, Romanian dances, processional music not adopted by Helston yet, Englsh folk song. Astonishing versitility on those clarinets, bagpipes, drums, guitar, sax, fiddle, etc etc. and some lovely singing too. The packed audience (nearly a sell out) clearly of BIG fans added to the knockabout and improvised joy of a sparky new band ready to break the mould. For all Those tunes may be £0.38p tunes but there were some humdingers and there were some gem "links" or as Jim would say "pure gold". Will you come to the Roseland next year to play? pm me

Schubert Impromptus Yulia Chaplina’s four concert tour across Cornwall gave us some really wonderful insights into many piano masterpieces. Her approach was deeply characterful but also selfless… “an absence of ego and a phenomenal range of colour and contrast in piano sound ” as violinist Jackie Shave described it after her final concert in Penzance. Or leader of the Brodsky Quartet Krysia Osostowicz  who said after the concert in Lavethan The Russian repertoire she presented in her second halves included the light hearted Shostakovich of the film and ballet composer- an aspect of the composer not so familiar to those of us more used to his symphonies, quartets and opera. The darker side of the Soviet creative world was touched on in the music of Weinberg (a younger less celebrated colleague of Shostakovich) with music from the Children’s Notebooks - though as Yulia pointed out in her personal introductions these pieces were not really children’s music! Arrangements of Rachmaninov...

    Concert Programme     Penzance   Methodist Church Sunday 22 nd June 2025  tickets buytickets.at/metronome Yulia Chaplina   - pianoforte Bagatelles Op. 119                                                                                            Beethoven G minor   A minor   Impromptus Op. 90                                 ...

 Libby Burgess, a former organ scholar at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, performed the complete Bach Preludes and Fugues over three days in Cornwall from Friday 3rd March to Sunday 5th March.  She began in the Main Hall at Chycara a wedding venue and holiday park near Carnon Downs, in at atmospheric cabaret type venue with a small but very attentive local audience. Libby did not choose to perform the Preludes & Fugues in their sequence in the two pubished volumes but she mixed and matched between the two separate books with some interesting and surprising contrasts between the normally sequential key performances .  It was the first time she had played in this sequence which (she confessed afterwards) gave her a few surprises (but no missed accidentals that I noticed).   Bach on the piano (as opposed to the harpsichord or the clavichord) had as its most popular and some say idiosyncratic 20th century interpreter the American Glenn Gould,  Libby is a...

  Julien van Mallaerts and Tim Dean gave a highly entertaining and beautifully crafted song recital at the Chapel Street Methodist Chapel series in Penzance on 29th May 2022. An enthusiastic audience gathered to hear a programme of English song including well known settings by Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams on Sunday afternoon as part of the Piano Go Round series of concerts. So much of the enjoyment in a song recital is to be had from the presence and drive of the performers and right from the opening thrills and whistles of Britten's Plough Boy and Oliver Cromwell contrasted with Sally Gardens, the audience was riveted with a presentation that was always entertaining.. This is a rich voice but also very subtle with wonderful diction and superb pianissimo, bringing to the performance of well known folk song repertoire a freshness which sparked interest which kept us on the edge of our chairs wanting more of the superb top range...but never overblown. Julien had just...

Ruth Wall gives recital on four harps in Gerrans Parish Hall, accompanied by Graham Fitkin. There were over 100 strings in total requiring careful tuning before, and during the concert which ace harpist Ruth Wall gave on Friday 9 th December at Gerrans Memorial Hall. Ruth’s  programme took as its broad theme Migration and she chose a remarkable variety of strands to captivate the audience – the programme was both highly creative and a spur to the imagination. There were four distinctive harps she played, the traditional clearsach, the bray harp, electro-acoustic harp, and a lever harp. While Ruth Wall lives in Cornwall she  has mined the stories and music from her native Sutherland, and in particular the Highland clearances for the thread that she wove through this programme.    Her partner the composer, Graham Fitkin who was accompanying her adapted tunes from bagpipe music books and these were then  interwoven with looping techniques to create new sound world...