And on the Way-John McCabe-Chamber Music

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This just in: the wonderful Jeremy Dale Roberts is writing a String Quintet for the Kreutzers-this is a fantastic development for us-his String Trio, Croquis, is at the heart of much of our work. He has just sent me a scan of part of the working score-a glimpse behind the composer’s workshop door!

François Antoine Habeneck-12 Preludes

Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Stradivari 1699 

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Engineer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds)

 The violinist François Antoine Habeneck was the first great string player to be entirely trained in the Paris Conservatoire.  Following his 1804 premier prix,  he was awarded the direction of les Exercises, the student orchestral concerts, for year. This was tremendously successful, and at the end of this year, a delegation of professors demanded that his tenure be made a permanent one. This offered him an opportunity to  develope new ideas and techniques for presenting the modern Viennese repertoire.

Exploring François Xavier Tourte (1747–1835)

THE PRELUDE AND THE CADENZA, HEARD WITHOUT INDULGENCE. The prelude and the cadenza, both children of the imagination, must concern themselves with respondinng appropriately to its call, for once the artist has undertaken them, they become for him one more hidden danger or one more cause for triumph; if he has the misfortune not to succeed, others are less indulgent since they know that he could have avoided taking the chance in the first place. Pierre Baillot (l’Art du Violon P.331)

 

Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot (1 October 1771 – 15 September 1842)-24 Preludes

Peter Sheppard Skaerved-WORKSHOP RECORDINGS

No.1 C Major

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No 2.A minor

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No 3. F Major

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No 4. D minor

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No 5. B flat MajorPrelude 5

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Prelude 6.G minor

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Prelude 7. E flat Major

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Prelude 8. C minor

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Prelude 9.A flat Major

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Prelude 10.F minor

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Prelude 11.D flat Major

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Prelude 12. B flat minor

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Prelude 13 F sharp Major

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Prelude 14. D sharp minor

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Prelude 15. B Major

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Prelude 16. G sharp minor

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Prelude 17. E Major

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Prelude 18. C sharp minor

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Prelude 19. A Major

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Prelude 20. F sharp minor

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Prelude 21. D Major

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Prelude 22. B minor

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Prelude 23. G Major

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Prelude 24. C major and Coda

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Exploring a bow by Nicolas Léonard Tourte (b 1746; d c1807)

Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot (1 October 1771 – 15 September 1842) helps me, with the aid of his Art du Violon  to explore an amazing bow from the collection of Charles Beare. Workshop recordings, Wapping 8th January 2012.

‘Taste’, which is the touchstone of feeling, is shown especially the choice of  ’preparations’ for a bad ending of a trill is enought to show that the player has not understood the passage, or sometimes the whole piece…the ‘First ending’ [on the same note on which the trill is indicated] is generally used for simple melodies.’ (Pp.132-3) Air ‘Charmante Gabrielle’, poem attributed to Du Caurroy

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French Tune

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”Mountain Airs…their vague but tender expression, the pastoral character of the Swiss Airs called ‘Ranz des Vaches’, the long duration of their final notes which last a long time in the vallyeys and travel back into the mountains, seem to us particularly appropriate to the study of Swells.(P.233)Ranz des Vaches. From Rousseau ‘Dictionnaire de musique’.

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 The Oboe and Musette ‘the oboe of the mountains’. In order to imitate this timbre, the violinist must press the bow a little more than usual,bring it closer to the bridge and feel that the roughness of the bow, inhibits, so speak, the free vibrations of the string.’ (l’Art du violon p.247)

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