Rodolphe Kreutzer
January 20, 2010
Rodolphe Kreutzer-Concerto No 15 (Dedicated to Pierre Baillot)Slow Movement Peter Sheppard Skaerved-violin .Recorded 2006 Kreutzer 15th Concerto (dedicated to Pierre Baillot-Adagio) \Kreutzer 14th Concerto (dedicated to Angelica Catalani) Adagio The popularity of concertante works in France ensured that concertos were published immediately upon their completion and premiere. If anything, the revolution sped up [...]
Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets
January 19, 2010
Musicians and Patronage Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets Mozart’s last three string quartets are the direct result of the problematic relationship between musicians and patrons at the end of the 18th century. An advertisement placed in the Wiener Zeitung as late as 1798 illustrates the regard in which musicians were held: Musical valet-de-chambre wanted. A musician is wanted, [...]
Collaborate
January 17, 2010
Collaborate! Friday 22 January 2.30–4.00pm Royal Academy of Music London NW15HT Piano Gallery The collaborating interpreter enjoys a dangerously liminal position between composer and audience, and between composer and score. Peter Sheppard Skærved presents an exploration of this world, with particular reference to recent works written for him by Poul Ruders, Judith Bingham, David Matthews [...]
Berkeley, Ca.
January 17, 2010
Croquis
January 16, 2010
Graveyard-Skt. Petri Kirke
January 16, 2010
Swift in NYC 2003
January 16, 2010
Paganini – ‘Segreto (1823)
January 16, 2010
Paganini-Segreto 1823 (Bruck-Wurlitzer MS) FIRST RECORDING Peter Sheppard Skaerved-(Stradivari 1699) (Engineer Jonathan Haskell) In October 1823, Paganini sent Germi his ‘segreto A’. This was his ‘sketch’ documenting the execution of complex harmonics for a single violinist. (The Bruck Wurlitzer MS). He was famous for implying that there was a ‘magic’ formula for his playing, although [...]
Liburn Jupolli-Eta Carinae
January 16, 2010
In 2006 I met the strikingly gifted and alarmingly young composer and improviser, Liburn Jupolli, in Kosova. We worked together in considerable detail on his interest in sounds which were on the edge of appearing and disappearing. This led to his Eta Carinae, written the following year, and heard that winter in a concert in London. [...]
January 21, 2010