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Working with Paganini’s ‘Secret Red Book’ (in preparation)
June 27, 2012
Working with Paganini’s ‘Secret Red Book’-Library of Congress, Washington DC NEWS-the Library of Congress film of my work with the ‘Red Book’ will go ‘live’ next week! Soundbox-The Red Book at the Royal Academy of Music Tuesday 25th September. Museum of the Royal Academy of Music 1230 (Admission Free) This is the first research event [...]
Dickens and Joachim, a ‘Freak’ on the Violin
June 14, 2012
Dickens and Joachim, a ‘Freak’ on the Violin (Text of talk given on 14th June 2012) ‘Music has become a pleasure, which, like the Plague of Egypt, pervades our kings’ chambers and our working men’s houses-a freak on or about the violin family… and the music prepared for the same, may not be altogether [...]
Horniman Museum Project
June 14, 2012
Horniman Museum Project (reporting back 14th June) The 13th June saw the beginning of a new collaboration with the Horniman Museum. Peter has been with them for nearly a year on bringing his research/performance into the work of Joseph Joachim into dialogue with their musical instrument collection, and last night’s packed concert/talk, linked to the [...]
Meeting two Andrea Guarneri violas….
June 8, 2012
On the 8th June, a wonderful morning in the company of two great violas by Andrea Guarneri. The brief visit of the ‘ex- Primose’ 1697 Andrea Guarneri viola to the workshop at the RAM, meant that it could meet up with its brother from the workbench, the Academy’s own Andrea Guarneri. Having grown up [...]
Elliott Schwartz-Water Music
June 7, 2012
Elliott Schwartz – ‘Water Music (Posted 20th September 2012) The Kreutzers (Peter Sheppard Skærved, Neil Heyde, Mihailo Trandafilovski & Morgan Goff) with friends: Rachel Meerloo, Val Wellbanks, Diana Mathews, Aisha Orazbayeva, Midori Komachi, , Alice Barron, Steven Crichlow, Annabelle Berthomé Reynolds/ Engineer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) The secret of collaging….Elliott Schwartz at Work Elliott once told me [...]
SOUNDBOX-Viotti and the ideal Salon
May 31, 2012
SOUNDBOX Tuesday 29th May 1230 Pm Royal Academy of Music Museum Piano Gallery Viotti-Ideal Chamber Music with Inbar Verni-Harp Repertoire -Viotti-Sonata for Harp and Violin (dedicated to Lady Dunmore), plus Country Dances for 1808 & 1809 A celebration of Giovanni Battista Viotti through his private artistic world, which was always more important to him than concert [...]
Bergonzi
May 21, 2012
he very first ‘Cremona’ that I played was an astonishing Carlo Bergonzi a violin owned by the violinist Beatrix Marr, my great musical and artistic inspiration when I was very young. I was probably nine years old at the time. I had been expecting something special, but the ‘Yawp’ which came from the violin as [...]
Bows for Paganini -SOUNDBOX 22nd May 2012
May 15, 2012
In 2005, I was first shown the extraordinary (broken) bow owned by Paganini, at the Palazzo Tursi, Genova. This started my fascination in Paganini’s exploration of bow technology. Here are the very rough notes that I took at the the time. Steel Bow by G.B.Vuillaume (c.1837) Niccolo Paganini-Unpublished Prelude 1838 From the [...]
July 19, 2012