Michael Alec Rose and the Kreutzer Quartet walked out across the beautiful fields of Hertfordshire, to record his three quartet movements, Hubbert Peak (premiered at Tate St Ives), and his violin/cello duo Doctor Johnson & Mr Savage, written for the glorious atmosphere of Wilton’s Music Hall (recently played at National Portrait Gallery). An idyllic day of recording, fulled by the [...]
March 5, 2012
Chris Redgate & David Gorton, at work in Nashville 2012 David Gorton=Austerity Measures 1st Performance(workshop version)-Turner Recital Hall, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University. Chris Redgate, Lindsey Reymore-Oboes, Trey Dayton, Shelby Flowers-Piano, Carly Lake-Horn, Agatha Yim-Flute, Ruta Vitkauskaite, Caroline Hart, Midori Komachi, Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violins Chris Redgate-Multiphonia Live at Vanderbilt-recording unable to reproduce jaws of [...]
March 4, 2012
Ruta Vitkauskaite -Composer New Work Turner Recital Hall, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University, Nashville/London Exchange Programme 1st March-2012 Played by the composer, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Michael Slayton, Midori Komachi, Shelby Flowers, Lindsey Reymore, Peter Dayton, Carly Lake, Caroline Hart, Agatha Yim. Statement from the composer at the moment, I am focusing on the spatial [...]
February 29, 2012
David Gorton-Austerity Measures Workshop performance-Nashville 28-2 2012 Chris Redgate and Lindsey Reymore-oboes
February 21, 2012
Recording Bach-Day 4 Today marked the first day in the studio with the Partitas. I had determined to record the Sonatas in the winter, and embark on the Partitas with Spring’s arrival. Up till today, with the UK apparently set on being wet and cold indefinitely, this seemed an idle plan. But the clouds cleared [...]
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 7, 2012
LINK TO JEREMY THURLOW March 15th 2012 Second day of filming and development with Jeremy. Here are outtakes of the experimentaton -very lo-fi, just recorded on the lap-top mic. All the synthesised electronic material is provisional. It will be replaced in performance by pre-recorded material which I will be preparing. The Cambridge premiere is slated [...]
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: [...]
March 13, 2012