Elliott Schwartz – ‘Water Music’ 14th February Cambridge. I spent part of a wonderful afternoon at Robinson College, working with Elliott Schwartz on his new version of his ‘Water Music’, which I commissioned in 2002. Here are some of his working sketches and preparatory materials-complete with lemon cake! Elliott Schwartz sketch for ‘Water Music’
February 3, 2012
February 2nd 2012 Peter Sheppard Skaerved has been named the Viotti Lecturer in Performance studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Peter plays (the ‘Ranz des Vaches’ and talks about his great inspiration)
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: [...]
January 13, 2012
Caprice Variations-George Rochberg LINK to purchase
January 11, 2012
Paul Pellay-Marcia Triunfal de Diablo Tejano (para I Str) (From The Thesaurus of Violinistic Fiendishness-Book 7 No 1) Peter Sheppard Violin Engineer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) METIER 28275 LINK TO PURCHASE More: Paul Pellay-Fjord – Flamm Remembered – Flecks (Live) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Morgan Goff-Neil Heyde (Live) South London Gallery, London 2010 Camera-Colin Still (Optic [...]
December 9, 2011
John Cage-Four Kreutzer Quartet Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Neil Heyde, Morgan Goff, Mihailo Trandafilovski Wolverhampton 13th February 2007
November 23, 2011
[<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32270909?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/32270909">Kreutzer Quartet Soloist program</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5196697">Mark Goldsworthy</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>]
February 15, 2012