Every September during the IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music seminars, we perform concerts in local churches and venues around West Cornwall. The concerts mark the end of each week of the Seminar, and they are also an important way for us to take our music out to the Cornish community and beyond.

One of the most stunning venues we perform in, is the chapel on St Michael's Mount, the tidal island which sits majestically off the coast of Marazion, Cornwall. In today's episode we are delighted to bring you a 'day in the life' of IMS as we perform one of our concerts on the Mount.

This episode was recorded on location on Saturday 25th September 2021, when Steven Isserlis and eight other IMS musicians performed in the chapel on the mount. The music was chosen to match the dramatic location. We hope this gives you a flavour of the special place St. Michael's Mount and Cornwall is for the IMS and our work.

Artistic Director: Steven Isserlis @StevenIsserlis

Contributors in order of appearance:

Steven Isserlis

Samuel West

Rosie Yeatman

Tim Crawford

Tim Posner

Gabriel Finn

Josh Sedgeman

Clare Finnimore

Tatiana Tunstall-Behrens

Deanna Bowen

David McCarroll

Music in order of appearance:

Brahms Op.111 played by the Salzburg Camerata, conducted by Sándor Végh.

Leoš Janáček, String Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata'

Performed by: Maria Włoszczowska violin; Tim Crawford violin; Clare Finnimore viola; Tim Posner cello Beethoven's String Quartet in G

Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet in G, Op.18, No.2

Performed by: Irène Duval violin; David McCarroll violin; Clare Finnimore viola; Adi Tal cello

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimento for String Trio in E Flat, K.563

Performed by: Maria Wloszczowska violin; Blythe Teh-Engstroem viola; Steven Isserlis cello

Narrator: Samuel West

Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @melissafitzg

Special thanks to Capriccio for the use of the recording of the Brahms Op.111 played by the Salzburg Camerata, conducted by Sándor Végh.

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Beloved by professional classical musicians for over 50 years, IMS Prussia Cove brings musicians from around the world to live and play together on a remote part of the Cornish coast. Narrated by actor Samuel West, this series gets inside the artistic and creative process of IMS Prussia Cove's biannual seminars, as well as tracing it's rich history and exploring what it has meant to generations of musicians. Made over four years, the podcast opens the door to the workings of this extraordinary organisation.

Introduced by Artistic Director Steven Isserlis, the podcast features interviews with IMS alumni including Thomas Adès, Dame Imogen Cooper, András Keller and Sir András Schiff, alongside clips from the archives and on-location recordings with others associated with the seminars including President of the Friends Petroc Trelawny (BBC Radio 3) and the late founders Sándor Végh and Hilary Tunstall-Behrens.

Across six episodes, the IMS Prussia Cove podcast explores all aspects of the IMS seminars, from the early days and the creative vision behind IMS Prussia Cove's founding purpose, through the communities of musicians, volunteers and audiences in Cornwall and the relationship with this extraordinary place on the Cornish coast, to how IMS continues to influence a new generation of musicians. Together, it offers a wonderful oral history of the organisation.

Artistic Director Steven Isserlis introduces Open Chamber Music, one of IMS Prussia Cove's biannual seminars. Open Chamber Music began in 1976, four years after the Masterclasses, when founder Sándor Végh invited some of the students to stay on and play chamber music with him. It has since grown into a three-week seminar taking place every September, with more than 120 musicians rehearsing and performing over 60 works of chamber music together, in ensembles that combine younger musicians with more experienced performers.

Artistic Director: Steven Isserlis @StevenIsserlis

Contributors in order of appearance:

Stuart Arrandale

Tim Crawford

Jenna Sherry

Tim Boulton

Patrick Bailey

Millie Ashton

Laura MacDonald

Susanna Patterson

Helena Winkelman

Amy Harman

Alice Neary

Erich Höbarth

Melissa Phelps

Tom Poster

Alec Frank-Gemmell

Narrator: Samuel West @exitthelemming

Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg

Music in order of appearance:

Brahms Op.111 played by the Salzburg Camerata, conducted by Sándor Végh.

Beethoven String Quartet in F major Op.135
Musicians: Daniel Phillips, David Adams, violin; Thomas Riebl, viola;
Jeong Hyoun Christine Lee, cello
Recorded OCM 2016, Friday 23 September, Richard Lander School in Truro

Leoš Janáček String Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata'
Musicians: Maria Włoszczowska violin; Tim Crawford violin; Clare Finnimore viola;
Tim Posner cello.
Recorded OCM 2021, Saturday 25 September, St Michael's Mount,

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimento for String Trio in E Flat, K.563
Musicians: Maria Wloszczowska violin; Blythe Teh-Engstroem viola; Steven Isserlis cello
Recorded OCM 2021, Saturday 25 September, St Michael's Mount

'Chicken on a Fence Post' played by school children participating in the outreach workshops, alongside IMS musicians Lesley Hatfield, Millie Ashton, violins; Tim Boulton, violin; Laura MacDonald, cello

Shostakovich String Quartet No.8
Musicians: Lesley Hatfield, Millie Ashton, violins; Tim Boulton, violin;
Laura MacDonald, cello

Helena Winkelman, Gott-Fa for Bassoon and String Quartet
Musicians: Helena Winkelman, Tim Crawford, violin; Georgia Russell, viola;
Tim Posner, cello; Amy Harman, bassoon
Recorded OCM 2021, during rehearsal

Schumann Piano Trio in D minor
Musicians: Barbara Doll, violin; Alice Neary, cello; Anton Kernjak, piano
Recorded OCM 2022 Sunday 25th September, Princess Pavilion Falmouth,

Reger String Sextet
Musicians: Erich Höbarth, Corey Cerovsek, violin; Thomas Riebl, Celia Libertad Elíaz, viola; Christoph Richter, Natania Hoffman, cello

Recorded OCM 2022, Sunday 25th September, Princess Pavillion Falmouth,

Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Musicians: Alessandro Ruisi, Larissa Cidlinsky, violin, Garfield Jackson, Anna Puig Torne, viola, Laura MacDonald, Bas Jongen, cello
Recorded OCM 2023, Saturday 30th September – Trelowarren Chapel

Bacewicz, Piano Quintet
Musicians: Jackie Shave, Kiarra Saito-Beckman, violin; Celia Libertad Eliaz, viola;
Sam de Caprio, cello; Tom Poster, piano
Recorded OCM 2022, Friday 23 September, St John's Hall Penzance.

Johannes Brahms, Horn Trio in E Flat Op 40
Musicians: Arisa Fujita, violin; Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn; Alasdair Beatson, piano
Recorded OCM Tour 2021, Thursday 1 October, Wigmore Hall, London

Special thanks to Capriccio for the use of the recording of the Brahms Op.111 played by the Salzburg Camerata, conducted by Sándor Végh.

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