The wonderful acoustic qualities of St James the Great Church, St Kew made the church an ideal choice for recording unaccompanied violin solos on three days last week.

Matthew Slater, a professional composer, who lives with his family at St Mabyn, is starting a record label that specialises in music that has never been performed or carries significant historical, social or spiritual weight.

He said: "As an example we are recording a string quartet album of music written in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. This music was actually composed on the back of official Nazi documents as this was the only paper available. We have found some previously un-performed material in the Library of Congress in Washington DC.

"Another of our projects is with a fantastic violinist who has been leant the violin Paganini used between the ages of 12 and 17. It is with this violin that we wish to record JS Bach's 6 solo violin sonatas and partitas."

It is hoped that a concert may be arranged in the church at a later date.