7th May 2013 Peter Sheppard Skaerved interviewing Mihailo Trandafilovski about playing Stradivari, about composing, and about colour. Interview followed by ‘In the Hills’ and ‘Fragments:Light’-Mihailo Trandafilovski, composer and Violin (Stradivari 1708 ‘Regent’)-Outtakes.(Engineer-Jonathan Haskell) Link to more Trandafilovski!
May 7, 2013
Anton Reicha-Quartet Op 49 No 2 in D Major Today (May 7th 2013), the Kreutzer Quartet recorded this incredible work in the St John the Baptist, Aldbury-our recording ‘home’ Here are outtakes of this extraordinary piece! The finished recording will be released on the Toccata Label. (more on this project at LINK) Anton Reicha-D Major [...]
May 2, 2013
Nicola Matteis, Andrea Amati, St Michael’s Cornhill 2nd May 2013 Today, I spent three idyllic hours working in astonishing architecture, acoustic, and atmosphere of St Michaels Cornhill. This is moving towards a project, bringing together the music of Nicola Matteis in a space which seems right, and the exploration of the ca 1560-70 Amati [...]
March 18, 2013
Sonni Petrovski-’Bric a Brac’ Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Antonio Stradivari 1698 Joachim) Wilton’s Music Hall – March 10th 2012 Macedonia Now Kreutzer Quartet with New London Chamber Choir
February 7, 2013
The Kreutzer Quartet have been associated with the music of Reicha, presenting his revelatory quartets, in modern and historical contexts, at their concert series at Wilton’s Music Hall London. Peter Sheppard Skaerved has also recorded Reicha’s cyclic chamber music extensively-the monumental 12 Duos for Violin and Cello, and his last major chamber work, the Duo Concertant (http://www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2011/06/anton-reicha-duo-concertant/). This [...]
January 5, 2013
Beethoven and Rochberg -A Saturday morning conversation. Wapping 5th January 2013 Beethoven Sonata Op 12 No 1 D Major (2nd Movement-Variation 4) + George Rochberg-Caprice Variations ( Variation 41 after Webern Op 1) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, and Aaron Shorr-Piano I probably talk a little too much about how the composers that I have been privileged to [...]
December 21, 2012
The Peabody Project I have just returned from my third visit to the wonderful Peabody Conservatory, America’s oldest Music Academy, in Baltimore. The core of my work at there is my collaboration with the composer Michael Hersch. Since April, I have been building a working relationship with a group of the young composers there, which [...]
December 6, 2012
Laura Konjetsky-’die Rote Zugabe’ 5 12 12.Munich. This morning, preparations begin for a premiere in Bamberg next month. The pianist/composer Laura Konjetsky has written me a new piece ‘die Rote Zugabe’ (the Red Encore), and today was our first workshop in her studio here in Munich. The workshop ranged from the quotidien ‘Stoff’ of such [...]
December 6, 2012
Morton Feldman-’Violin and String Quartet’(Workshop recording) 5th December 2012Peter Sheppard Skaerved,Max Peter Meis, Eli Nakagawa-Hawthorne, Kelvin Hawthorne,Bridget MacRae. (I have broken this single span into 4 sections for upload) (1.)(2.)(3.)(3.))
November 27, 2012
Anton Reicha- 12 Duos pour violon & Violoncello, precedes d’un petit Traite… Op. 84, Bk. 1 & 2. (Paris : Gambaro, [n.d.])Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, Beate Altenberg-Cello Recorded 2004 No 5 D major-Allegro Moderato This is the first of two duos in the cycle based on a repeating bass or Chaconne. At the top of the [...]
May 8, 2013