Macedonia Now at Wilton’s Music Hall-10th March 2013 This is the pre-concert talk which I gave before the concert: In 2005, I visited Skopje for the first time. In the 4 years previously, I had spent a considerable amount of time in the Balkans, ever more fascinated by the creative energy and contemporary [...]
March 10, 2013
A week of inspiration, and the story of a day: March 2nd Perth Rehearsing Faure Piano Trio, with Roy Howat and Neil Heyde. Perth Concert Hall. 2 3 2013 March 1st 2013 ..the story of a day. To begin, meeting with the team at the British Museum to bring the next stage of our collaboration [...]
March 3, 2013
The Cambridge Caprices On the 1st March 2013, I began a new project with a group of composers and musicians gathered at the Music Faculty of Cambridge University. This is linked to my collaboration with Jeremy Thurlow on his ‘Ouija’ for solo violin. On the [...]
February 26, 2013
February 23, 2013
William Bolcom-Sonata No. 4 (Live Recording – London January 1998) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1734 ‘Habeneck’) Junko Kobayashi-Piano I. Allegro brillante II. White Nights III. Arabesque/Jota I met William Bolcom in Stuttgart in 1994, where we performed together. This performance, with the brilliant pianist Junko Kobayashi, was recorded in London four years later. In my [...]
February 11, 2013
February 7, 2013
The Kreutzer Quartet have been associated with the music of Reicha, presenting his revelatory quartets, in modern and historical contexts, at their concert series at Wilton’s Music Hall London. Peter Sheppard Skaerved has also recorded Reicha’s cyclic chamber music extensively-the monumental 12 Duos for Violin and Cello, and his last major chamber work, the Duo Concertant (http://www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2011/06/anton-reicha-duo-concertant/). This [...]
January 24, 2013
Grims Ditch and Pitstone Hill in the Snow, from Church End Walking Ivinghoe Aston to Tring 23 1 13, after editing Beethoven
March 11, 2013