Laura Konjetsky-’die Rote Zugabe’ 5 12 12.Munich. This morning, preparations begin for a premiere in Bamberg next month. The pianist/composer Laura Konjetsky has written me a new piece ‘die Rote Zugabe’ (the Red Encore), and today was our first workshop in her studio here in Munich. The workshop ranged from the quotidien ‘Stoff’ of such [...]
December 6, 2012
Morton Feldman-’Violin and String Quartet’(Workshop recording) 5th December 2012Peter Sheppard Skaerved,Max Peter Meis, Eli Nakagawa-Hawthorne, Kelvin Hawthorne,Bridget MacRae. (I have broken this single span into 4 sections for upload) (1.)(2.)(3.)(3.))
December 2, 2012
Sadie Harrison in the Shoe Factory Sadie Harrison-’Sheppard’s Meadow’ (26th November 2012)Recorded in the ‘Shoe Factory’ Nikosia, Cyprus. 28th November 2012 This is the latest piece in Sadie Harrison’s ongoing series ‘Gallery’. It was written in response to a walk that I took from Epping to Wapping on the 19th November. In a note that [...]
November 27, 2012
Anton Reicha- 12 Duos pour violon & Violoncello, precedes d’un petit Traite… Op. 84, Bk. 1 & 2. (Paris : Gambaro, [n.d.])Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, Beate Altenberg-Cello Recorded 2004 No 5 D major-Allegro Moderato This is the first of two duos in the cycle based on a repeating bass or Chaconne. At the top of the [...]
November 26, 2012
Anton Reicha- 12 Duos pour violon & Violoncello, precedes d’un petit Traite… Op. 84, Bk. 1 & 2. (Paris : Gambaro, [n.d.])Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, Beate Altenberg-Cello Duo No 4 E Flat Major Adagio-Tempo di Minuetto The 4th Duo is the first to include a movement away from the home key-the ‘trio’ section of the second [...]
November 25, 2012
Anton Reicha- 12 Duos pour violon & Violoncello, precedes d’un petit Traite… Op. 84, Bk. 1 & 2. (Paris : Gambaro, [n.d.])Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, Beate Altenburg-Cello Duo No 3. B flat Major Lento-Allegro Poco Vivo The third duo gently introduces pizzicato,which Reicha has so far eschewed. Halfway through the first movement, with the return of [...]
November 25, 2012
Anton Reicha- 12 Duos pour violon & Violoncello, precedes d’un petit Traite… Op. 84, Bk. 1 & 2. (Paris : Gambaro, [n.d.])Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, Beate Altenburg-Cello Duo No 2. G Major Adagio-Presto There is little doubt that part of the fault with Reicha’s absence from the concert stage lies with the composer himself. He notd [...]
November 24, 2012
“Like any violinist, Bach is the private centre of what I do. Despite playing the Sonatas & Partitas from a young age, it was not until my early thirties that I performed the cycle in public. Even today, even though I am someone who just loves to talk about music, I find that on the [...]
November 24, 2012
Anton Reicha- 12 Duos pour violon & Violoncello, precedes d’un petit Traite… Op. 84, Bk. 1 & 2. (Paris : Gambaro, [n.d.])Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, Beate Altenburg-Cello Duo No 1. C Major-Largo-Allegro non Troppo The first of this extraordinary cyce of duos is in many ways the simplest. Like the first of Reicha’s Op 48/49 set [...]
November 23, 2012
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