Recording Bach-Day 3 Bach – A minor Solo Sonata Peter Sheppard Skaerved – Violin (Stradivari 1698 ‘Joachim’) 20th February 2012 St the John the Baptist Aldbury Engineer-Jonathan Haskell 1st Movement – Grave2nd Movement – Fuga3rd Movement – Andante4th Movement-Allegro A great living composer responds. Michael Alec Rose, E mail to PSS 22 2 12: ‘Listened [...]
Elliott Schwartz – ‘Water Music’ 14th February Cambridge. I spent part of a wonderful afternoon at Robinson College, working with Elliott Schwartz on his new version of his ‘Water Music’, which I commissioned in 2002. Here are some of his working sketches and preparatory materials-complete with lemon cake! Elliott Schwartz sketch for ‘Water Music’
Grieg Quartet-live at Wilton’s Music Hall 10th June 2008 Kreutzer Quartet Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde I.Un poco andante – Allegro molto ed agitatoII.Romanze. AndantinoIII.Intermezzo. Allegro molto marcato – Più vivo e scherzandoIV.Finale. Lento – Presto al saltarello Recording courtesy of [...]
Michael Slayton (Blair) Composer As we prepare to embark again on this wonderful journey together, my overall hope for the exchange remains steadfast: that we will all come away richer – with new motivations, new ways of thinking about music and music-making, united in our efforts to ensure that collaboration amongst artists (which is [...]
February 7th 2012 This is the beginning of an exciting project which I am doing with the composer Jeremy Thurlow at Cambridge University, and Dr Mark Doffman at the University of Oxford. Research Project: Creative Practice in Contemporary Concert Music Jeremy Thurlow is writing new works for me, and the collaborative process will be documented in [...]
Peter & Michael Alec Rose discuss Mendelssohn’s D minor Violin Concerto IN PREPARATION Introducing two manuscripts
Quartet Choreography-New DVD on the way!
February 2nd 2012 Peter Sheppard Skaerved has been named the Viotti Lecturer in Performance studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Peter plays (the ‘Ranz des Vaches’ and talks about his great inspiration)
February 21, 2012