THIS WEEK: National Portrait Gallery: Only Connect 9 September 2011, 18:30 Free admission My exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery, ‘Only Connect’ runs until 27th November. This Friday, I am presenting a ‘Paganini in London’ response to the exhibition, which features portraits of Paganini and his circle in London-Mendelssohn, Lindley, Mori, Cartwright, Dragonetti, Leigh Hunt. [...]
December 22, 2010
Beethoven-Symphony No. 2 Version for Piano Trio by the Composer PSS-Violin, Beate Alteburg-Cello, Aaron Shorr Piano Concert Performance. London 2004 Aarton Shorr prepares….
December 11, 2010
Charles-Philippe Lafont-Variations on ‘La Vestale’ (Spontini) PSS-del Gesu (Il Cannone-strung with Gut strings and Paganini’s bridge design) London February 2006 Fétis described Charles-Philippe Lafont’s (1781-1839) qualities: “Lafont, too, one of the bright glories of the French School of violinists, was, at first, the pupil of Kreutzer. Dissatisfied with the style of his master, which did not [...]
November 27, 2010
Vitali-Diverse Sonate e Partite Nicholas Mori-Prelude Paganini-A major Prelude Paganini-Adieu a Londres Edward Eliason-Farewell to my friend Paganini Charles De Beriot-Prelude Ole Bull-Capriccio Francois Cramer Cammillo Sivori-A Capriccio John Loder-Caprice Bach-Largo (C Major Solo Sonata) Concert performance St Barthololomew the Great 2007 Tartini-7th Sonata Piccola (A minor) Andante Cantabile Westhoff-D major Sarabande Biber-Ciaconne (Extract) Andre [...]
November 7, 2010
October 7, 2010
Tartini’s masterpiece TO HEAR OUTTAKES FROM THE COMPLETE CYCLE-studio sessions 2011. Go to: 30 DAYS OF TARTINI In the last years his life, the great composer, violinist and swordsman, Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770), seems to have laboured at a set of ca. 30 sonatas for solo violin. The resulting manuscript is the most significant cycle of works for violin alone [...]
July 1, 2010
In 2002 – I was preparing to direct a concert with the wonderful Zagreb Soloists in the Lisinki Concert Hall, Zagreb. I had been discussing this with George Rochberg, and he suggested that I arrange the slow movement of his 6th Quartet , which itself is a transfiguration of Pachelbel Adagio. Here is the result, [...]
June 8, 2010
Giovanni Battista Viotti walks out Giovanni Battistas Viotti-’Suonata’ (Solo Sonata) Peter Sheppard Skaerved live at the Library of Congress, Washingon. May 2009. (Betts Stradivari) The Viotti disdained to teach adults and was irked at being obliged to tutor those of bon ton. This print was published by the Libraire Martinet/Chez Martinet , in 1804. The [...]
May 29, 2010
TO HEAR OUTTAKES FROM THE COMPLETE CYCLE-studio sessions 2011. Go to: 30 DAYS OF TARTINI St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield Concert 2 (Wednesday 2nd June) 730pm Tickets £12 (Concessions £6) Information on the whole series: http://www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/tartini-sonatas-at-st-barts/ Tartini-Sonatas (Padua Manuscript) Sonata in E minor ‘Senti la fonte, senti lo mare’ Sonata in A minor Sonata in [...]
May 27, 2010
I met Yigit Kolat in Anka in 2003. Here is is Taksim. More no this fascinating young Turkish composer to follow. Listen: Yigit Kolat-Taksim
March 7, 2011