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06/12/2025

News from our International Concert Artist Series concert roster

Following the superb concert given by Philippa Mo at St Just in Roseland Church, tickets have now gone on sale for the next three concert http://buytickets.at/metronome. They include Yulia Chaplina plays Tchaikovsky The Seasons and other Russian masterpieces for Piano on Friday 27th February.
Then the return of Liberdjango - Tango Italiano on 27th March followed by An Evening of Cuban music by The Latin Bridge on

All three of these concerts will take place Chycara Weddings near Carnon Downs. There is a bar, there is a great atmosphere and stand out music from Cuba, Russia and Italy. Nobody can say musical life in Cornwall is parochial!

We wish all our concert attenders a Happy Christmas and a joyful New Year

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04/12/2025

This was a great concert Pat Coldrick Classical Guitarist and Composer that Metronome Recordings promoted in Devoran Village Hall before COVID - sorry to have missed you in Dublin Pat. Hoping now you are back on the road you’ll come back to Cornwall soon

23/11/2025

Philippa Mo is on her way to Cornwall now to play at the atmospheric St Just in Roseland Church next Saturday 29 November at 1700.
Listen and watch her play the Bach Partita in D Minor here now
https://www.philippamo.london/media and
Book tickets buytickets.at/metronome
Do not miss this!

21/11/2025

Philippa Mo violinist is giving a solo recital is St Just in Roseland Church next Saturday 29th November at 5 pm. The concert will be lit by candlelight. She will play Bach Partita in D minor including the famous Chaconne, 2 Fantasias by Telemann and new works including “Dissolve O my heart” by Mizzy Mazzola and a work inspired by the Barbara hepworth museum, st Ives by Leo Geyer

Here’s a link to her talking about her amazing violin.

https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=philippa%20mo&tbm=&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5 =ive&vld=cid:2fef3bc9,vid:y1seBypO1t4,st:0

“Dissolve O My Heart” Philippa Mo solo violin plays unaccompanied Bach & Telemann

Philippa Mo is one of the most exciting solo violinists in the UK

In this winter early evening concert, Philippa performs the Partita in D minor by Bach, one of the most deeply contemplative of pieces in one of the most evocative waterside holy place in Cornwall. With its astonishingly complex final movement the Chaconne, a dance over a ground bass with 64 variations the Partita concludes. Missy Mazzoli is a groundbreaking composer from New York who responds to the opening of the Chaconne in her mesmerising piece Dissolve, O my Heart. Telemann, Bach’s friend and contemporary casts an elegant Baroque pathwith his solo fantasias contrasting with Bach’s own Cello Suite no 4 dand is answered by the exciting young British composer Leo Geyer.

Leo wrote Guarea for Philippa to perform here in Cornwall at the Barbara Hepworth Garden in St Ives and the music comments on the exotic wood and shapes of Barbara Hepworth's most famous sculptures. To concert will finish with an upward trajectory and the idea of flight into the beyond (of fancy, of fantasy), a tiny gem, Bumblebees by Cyril Scott.

Programme in Full:
Telemann Fantasia in D major no.10
Missy Mazzoli Dissolve O My Heart
Bach Partita in D minor BWV 1004
Interval
Telemann Fantasia in Bb major no.1
Leo Geyer Guarea
Bach Cello Suite no.4 in Eb major BWV 1010 arr. for violi
Scott Bumblebees

Doors open:

19/11/2025

Cellists and string players might find the idea of sympathetic strings on a cello a bit retro but why not?

12/11/2025

Hot News

While its a busy season for the traditional concert fare going into Christmas (and please check out the next Metronome gig - Unaccompanied Bach in St Just in Roseland on Saturday 29th November - Violinist Philippa Mo) ...I wanted to recommend two unusual imminent concerts next week put on by fellow music promoters (to both of which I will be going . One a Piano Trio From Prague playing in Falmouth and the other an Indian classical bansuri (flute) master playing in St Ives. Yes Cornwall attracts the best if you know where to look!

Concert 1 THIS SATURDAY at 1.p.m. (note the time)

So First this Saturday at Lunchtime at the Poly in Falmouth at 1.p.m there is The Vltava Piano Trio, who will play a fascinating, challenging programme

Beethoven Spring Sonata Op 24 for Violin and Piano
Kodaly Op 8 Unaccompanied Cellos Sonata
Smetana Piano Trio Opus 15

The Smetana was recently played in Cornwall in Penzance and Lavethan by the Bohemo Trio to great acclaim

The Kodaly solo work for celll work is one of the great challenges of the cello repertoire (Janos Starker's recording of the work launched his international career back in the 1950s). The musicians are

And the Spring Sonata by Beethoven a masterpiece.

Pavel Wallinger - violin
Petra Besa - Piano
Jan Skrdlik - Violoncello

Book here https://thepoly.org/whats-on/event/4119/piano-trio-vltava.

Its not often you hear the Kodaly played in the concert hall. If you are a cellist (like me) you'd want to be there.

11/11/2025

Candlelit Solo Violin Concert at St Just in Roseland Saturday 29th November - *[http://www.buytickets.at/metronome]* “Dissolve O My Heart” Philippa Mo "one of the most exciting violinists in the UK" plays unaccompanied Bach Partita in D min and Telemann Fantasias - get your ticket now for this Eve of Advent recital