PSS with Aaron Shorr-Piano Wilton’s Music Hall June 2008 Engineer: Colin Still (Optic Nerve) When I first started working with Aaron Shorr, twenty years ago, he was insistent that we play Ives together. I will always be grateful for his intractability on this subject. This is the last movement of Ives’s 3nd Sonata, ‘The [...]
December 31, 2009
Michael Alec Rose-Urstoff LIVE World Premiere-Nashville March 2008 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Aaron Shorr-Piano The composer writes: "Urstoff" was one of the many technical terms the young Primo Levi came to admire in his apprenticeship as a chemist and poet. In his memoir THE PERIODIC TABLE, Levi recalls his sense of wonder (searingly unironic, even in [...]
December 31, 2009
Penderecki-1st Quartet Kreutzer Quartet PSS, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde St Bartholomew the Great 2008 Engineer: Jonathan Haskell www.astoundingsounds.co.uk (NB uploaded in 2 tracks-though Quartet in one movement) Track02Track03 Penderecki 2nd Quartet Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton 2005
December 31, 2009
These Charles de Bériot studies and caprices were recorded in 2006, but have been only available online, so not many people have heard them. They are, in my opinion, ideally suited to the clear and dramatic sound of the 1699 Stradivari on which I recorded them, the Crespi. Prelude or Improvisation (without Opus) 12 [...]
December 30, 2009
Colours/Limits-Mihailo Trandafilovski Today is a good day to celebrate the work of Mihailo Trandafilovski. We are playing his work at the South London Gallery tonight-the first of two events this week that he has masterminded, bringing living composers and young performers together in a unique environment. For the past few days we have been rehearsing his [...]
December 29, 2009
I have been fascinated by Ole Bull for years. Today (15th August 2012), I have been thinking about his ‘Quartet for One Violin’, written in Dublin in 1837. This seems to be a work that he may have played with the bow beneath the violin. I will post a recording of this later, but to [...]
December 29, 2009
A selection of live Bach recordings will gradually appear here…. Two extracts from a concerts recorded at St Bartholomew the Great London (October a and November 2007) Bach-D minor Partita Sarabande D minor Sarabande Bach-B minor Partita Sarabande-Double Bach B minor Bach-C Major Sonata Largo C Major Bach (Violin-Stradivari 1699 ‘Crespi’ from the Collection of [...]
December 29, 2009
From the Kafka Miscellany-the wonderful collection of sketches and fragments in the British Library. A Laendler and Canon (Hess 68 and 275), both from 1802. Live performance with Yves Savary , London May 2002
December 29, 2009
Beethoven – 3 Sonatas, for Piano and Violin, Op. 30 (Dedicated to Tsar Alexander 1st) Beethoven dedicated his three Sonatas for Piano with Violin, Op. 30, to the Tsar Alexander 1st (1777-1825). In 1800, Alexander took the throne after the murder of his father, the Tsar Paul; it was widely assumed that he was behind [...]
December 28, 2009
Camillo Sivori Sivori-’a Capriccio’ 1838-Eliza Wesley Scrapbook. World Premiere Recording 2005. Produced and Engineered-Jonathan Haskell (astounding sounds) Excluding the small works written for the young Sivori, we have no accounts of Paganini writing a work for another violinist to perform.Sivori’s father had certainly hope more than the slight works which he composed for him. In [...]
December 31, 2009