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. [...]
September 23, 2012
Sadie Harrison-Coffee with Aphra Behn: Westminster Abbey Cloisters (September 2012) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Workshop recording 23rd September 2012 London Sadie Harrison has written a word about the latest exquisite miniature in her series, based on my drawings. Yesterday (September 22nd, she wrote): Here is the next piece in the set which I am calling ‘Gallery’./It’s [...]
September 21, 2012
Franz Schubert – Fantasie in C major, D.934Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Guarneri ‘del Gesu’ The Kreisler)/Aaron Shorr-Piano Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington DC November 2006
September 19, 2012
Elliott Schwartz-String Quartet No 2 (Outtakes) Kreutzer Quartet (Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Mihailo Trandafilovski-Morgan Goff-Neil Heyde) Engineer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) St John the Baptist Church, Aldbury 19th September The Composer Writes When in the spring of 2007 I began making sketches for a new string quartet, the piece was to be a homage to Aaron [...]
September 11, 2012
David Matthews – ‘After Adrienne’ 7-9th September 2012 Workshop Recording-Peter Sheppard Skaerved 11th September Wapping The composer writes: ‘Here is yet another piece from me: it was Jaroslav Š?astný’s 60th birthday in July and I’ve written him a belated birthday present. It’s based on a phrase from an orchestral piece called ‘Adrienne’ which I particularly [...]
September 11, 2012
Scott Lee – Fiddle Sketch The spirit of Ole Bull seems to be infecting a lot of what is crossing my practice desk this summer. I met Scott Lee for the first time when he was studying at the Blair Sch0ol of Music, Vanderbilt University-I was introduced to him by Michael Alec Rose. I was [...]
October 7, 2012