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  A full house at the opening concert  of a new festival on Bodmin Moor - this event hosted at Lavethan House by Blisland Village.   The programme was entitled "Inner Music" because one senses the works chosen invite consideration of biography and reflection.  The Brodsky's gave a subtle performance of Haydn's Quartet in C op 54 no 2 followed by the Bedrich Smetana "From my Life" quartet  no 1 in E minor which is full of middel-European panache, chutzpah and character and variety but also tragedy.   With Krysia Osostowicz's introduction outlining the shape of Smetana's own biography: early fame, joy in dancing and living in a hugely admiring public life and then debilitating tinnitus followed by confinement and seclusion for his mental health.  The work full of joy and fun and dance portrays a diverting character but strident tones brings all to a profound silence and abrupt cut off.   The final work was the late Beethoven quartet i...

  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                                 ...