THE PAGANINI PROJECT …aims to bring together instruments, objects, and paper holdings at the Library of Congress exploring Paganini’s work and touring. This page includes documentary material from my research there, and links to other Paganini aspects in my work. Here is the film which I made at the Library of Congress in June 2012 [...]
October 22, 2012
In Bergen to work on my Ole Bull/Grieg Project with the team of the Bergen International Festival. 29th October London-a moment of clarity offered by the great ballet-pioneer August Bournonville. In 1840, he wrote: ‘Gerhard Dow’s well known Viola da Gamba is for me a similar instrument to that which in Ole Bull’s hands made [...]
October 16, 2012
In 2004 I spent some time working on Hans Christian Andersen’s albums in the Kongelige Bibliothek, Copenhagen. By any stretch of the imagination, these are incredible. I copied out musical entries from Mendelssohn, Spohr, Weyse, Schumann, Ernst, Lachner and this poem, addressed to his ‘Friend and brother poet’ by Ole Bull in 1838. Ole Bull [...]
October 15, 2012
Just in…Outtakes from Beethoven, Sonatas Op 12, with Aaron Shorr. Beethoven-3 Sonatas Op 12 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1734 ‘Habeneck’) & Aaron Shorr (Piano) Raw outtakes, recorded in St John’s Smith Square, London E flat major, Op. 12, No. 3 Allegro con spiritoAdagio con molt’espressioneRondo: Allegro molto To hear more, got to Op12 New recordings soon [...]
October 7, 2012
October 7, 2012
Martin Ellerby (b. 1957)-Epitaph VII: Memento (Terezin) for Clarinet in A and String Quartet (2008) Live Performance. Waterloo Festival-June 2012 Linda Merrick-Clarinet Kreutzer Quartet Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde 1. The Closed Town2. Work3. The Silent Hunger4. Fear5. The Butterfly6. Tears 7. The Deportation Train 8. Forgotten 9. To Olga Recording [...]
October 6, 2012
Beethoven-3 Sonatas Op 12 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1734 ‘Habeneck’) & Aaron Shorr (Piano) Raw outtakes, recorded in St John’s Smith Square, London D Major, Op. 12, No. 1 Allegro con brio Tema con variazioniRondo: Allegro A major, Op. 12, No. 2 Allegro vivace Andante, piu tosto AllegrettoAllegro piacevole E flat major, Op. 12, No. [...]
September 30, 2012
Sadie Harrison-Same Strand (September 2012) Workshop recording: Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1698) London 30-09-2012 The composer notes: ‘A sleepless night…and a little piece to show for it…after your gentle ‘Same Strand’. All is self-explanatory.’(30th September 2012) This piece responds to an old drawing of mine, made on an iron-cold late december morning, by the Sound, [...]
September 24, 2012
Bull, Ole, 1810-1880-”Capriccio a Violino solo.” At the end: “Berlin d. 17[?] Februar 18[3]9 Ole B. Bull.” Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Workshop Recording. London September 24th 2o12) Ganz, Leopold, 1806-1869. Album of autographs, 1837-1864. (Pierpont Morgan Library New York City/Fulton Deposit) I found this fragment in July 2006 in the astounding album kept by the oboist [...]
September 23, 2012
Jim Aitchison-a dialogue with Albrecht Dürer Jim Aitchison-Study after Melencolia I. Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Workshop Recording, London 23rd September 2012) The compoer writes:’Jim Aitchison, Two Studies after Melencolia I This deeply resonant image has haunted me for years, and it has taken all of this time to find the courage to make a compositional approach. [...]
November 7, 2012