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 [...]
February 15, 2012
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’
February 10, 2012
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 [...]
February 9, 2012
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 7, 2012
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 [...]
February 7, 2012
Peter & Michael Alec Rose discuss Mendelssohn’s D minor Violin Concerto IN PREPARATION Introducing two manuscripts
February 5, 2012
January 31, 2012
Recording Bach Day 2 of recording the Sonatas and Partitas-February 13th. St John the Baptist Aldbury-a perfect acoustic for Bach (for me, anyway) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1698), Bow (Stephen Bristow 2010) Recording Engineer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) Bach-G minor Solo Sonata BWV1001 1st Movement-Adagio (recorded at 1400 13th February)2nd Movement-Fuga3rd Movement-Siciliano4th Movement-Presto 14th Feburary 2012: [...]
January 23, 2012
Jeremy Dale Roberts-Croquis 2 of these wonderful movements for String Trio, filmed by Colin Still (Optic Nerve), Sound by Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) at the South London Gallery. Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, Morgan Goff-Viola, Neil Heyde-Cello
January 20, 2012
30 Days of Tartini-’Piccole Sonate’ Introduction: Improvising on Tartini’s Tasso Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Stradivari 1698 (Joachim) Studio outtakes-Engineer Jonathan Haskell Giuseppe Tartini Day 32 Sonata 13 B minor AndanteAllegroAssaiGiga-allegro affetuoso Tartini: ‘My Piccole Sonate have a bass line merely as a courtesy…I play them without bassetto, and that is my true intention’ (Autograph letter to Algarottie 24-2-1750) [...]
February 21, 2012