IMS Prussia Cove – Details, episodes & analysis

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.