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Bach – A minor Solo Sonata-Outtakes

February 21, 2012

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 [...]

Elliott Schwartz – ‘Water Music’

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’

Grieg Quartet-live at Wilton’s Music Hall

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 [...]

Nashville 2012

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 [...]

Project with Jeremy Thurlow

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 [...]

Peter & Michael Alec Rose discuss Mendelssohn’s D minor Violin Concerto

February 7, 2012

Peter & Michael Alec Rose discuss Mendelssohn’s D minor Violin Concerto IN PREPARATION     Introducing two manuscripts

Jim Aitchison-Black Something

February 5, 2012

Recording Bach

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: [...]

Film-Jeremy Dale Roberts-Croquis

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

30 Days of Tartini-’Piccole Sonate’

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)   [...]