Pietro Antonio Locatelli (3 September 1695 – 30 March 1764)-Il laberinto armonico Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Live performance, Cyprus 2009) Live performance. Baltimore Old Episcopalian Church 4th April 2012 The full title of this work ‘il laberinto armonicao, facilius ingressus, difficilius exius’, bespeaks something way beyond mere musical process. I have been intrigued by it [...]
July 6, 2011
John McCabe-Clarinet Quintet London Premiere June 2011 Wiltons Music Hall Linda Merrick-Clarinet Kreutzer Quartet (Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde)
July 6, 2011
Iannis Xenakis-Tetras Kreutzer Quartet (Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde) Live Performance. Pharos Contemporary Music Festival Shoe Factory-Nikosia September 2010
June 24, 2011
Evis Sammoutis-Taftophonia PSS-Violin Shoe Factory Nikosia September 2009 Pharos Contemporary Music Festival
June 23, 2011
Kreutzer Quartet (Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde, Mihailo Trandafilovski) Live at the glorious Wilton’s Music Hall 19th June 2011 Recording Courtesy of Colin Still (Optic Nerve) Jean Sibelius D minor Quartet Op 56 ‘Voces Intimae’ (1909) Andante/Allegro molto moderato-Vivace-Adagio di molto-Allegretto (ma pesante)-Allegro/Piu Allegro
June 23, 2011
Composer Lena Langer in conversation with PSS. Royal Academy of Music 2004. Photo-Richard Bram
June 21, 2011
Beethoven-Sonata Op 17 (Horn Sonata) -arr. JJ Hummel (Amsterdam) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, Aaron Shorr, Piano June 15th 2001, St Johns Smith Square, London, Engineer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds)
June 20, 2011
Anton Reicha (1770-1834)-Grand Duo Concertant (dedicated to Pierre Baillot) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1699), Aaron Shorr-Piano Recorded 2004 Allegro Allegro Adagio Finale-Allegro poco vivace The most influential musician in post-Revolutionary Paris was the Bohemian-born Antoine Reicha (1770-1836), Beethoven’s exact contemporary and close friend. As teenagers, the two had been colleagues in the Bonn Electoral [...]
June 10, 2011
In 1866, Joseph Joachim visted the ‘Kensington Museum, which today we know as the Victoria and Albert. He was particular impressed by a wax cast taken from a clay model by Michelangelo in the Casa Buonarotti, Florence. This is sometimes regarded as a study a) for a Hercules and Cacus group commissioned in 1528, b) for [...]
June 5, 2011
Richard Duke at the NPG 2-6-2011 (1698 Stradivari behind_ Photo: Marius Skaerved Violin by Richard Duke (undated) Orginal neck : violin in early classcial setup
July 6, 2011