Malene Skaerved & Peter Sheppard Skaerved-a conversation In 2005, we attended a debate organised by Blueprint Magazine at Christchurch, Spitalfields. Our reaction turned into to a written conversation, and it was suggested that we might turn it into an article for the magazine. However, when we realised how much was going to be removed to [...]
February 7, 2013
The Kreutzer Quartet have been associated with the music of Reicha, presenting his revelatory quartets, in modern and historical contexts, at their concert series at Wilton’s Music Hall London. Peter Sheppard Skaerved has also recorded Reicha’s cyclic chamber music extensively-the monumental 12 Duos for Violin and Cello, and his last major chamber work, the Duo Concertant (http://www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2011/06/anton-reicha-duo-concertant/). This [...]
November 7, 2012
THE PAGANINI PROJECT …aims to bring together instruments, objects, and paper holdings at the Library of Congress exploring Paganini’s work and touring. This page includes documentary material from my research there, and links to other Paganini aspects in my work. Here is the film which I made at the Library of Congress in June 2012 [...]
October 15, 2012
Just in…Outtakes from Beethoven, Sonatas Op 12, with Aaron Shorr. Beethoven-3 Sonatas Op 12 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1734 ‘Habeneck’) & Aaron Shorr (Piano) Raw outtakes, recorded in St John’s Smith Square, London E flat major, Op. 12, No. 3 Allegro con spiritoAdagio con molt’espressioneRondo: Allegro molto To hear more, got to Op12 New recordings soon [...]
September 3, 2012
Responding to Sven Havsteen-Mikkelsen (in preparation) Like any regular visitor to Denmark, I had been aware of this artist’s work without actively seeking it out. Now I have been asked to respond to his work, curating pieces from the last 150 years which find a dialogue with some aspects of what he achieved. What I [...]
September 3, 2012
On December 4th 1868, a terrible riverboat accident took place on the Ohio River, resulting in the deaths of 162 passengers from the two paddle steamers, the ‘United States’ (pride of the US Mail service) and the ‘United States’. Ole Bull was involved in the accident-like any traveller in the 19th Century, he took accidents [...]
July 25, 2012
Dover Arts Development ‘War and Peace’ Workshops 12th November 2012 A wonderful day in Dover, on the DAD War and Peace Project. Workshops at Dover College and St Mary’s School. Wonderful to do this project with Malene Sheppard Skaerved. Thanks to Clare Smith and Joanna Jones for their inspired work on this. Here, one of [...]
July 6, 2012
Talking about Biber, Storytelling and Andersen With Malene Skaerved at Wilton’s Music Hall, 6th July 2012, working on SoundBox for 9th July LINK for Event Biber-Sonata 16 (Guardian Angel, guide of Mankind) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Stradivari 1698 (modern set up) the same, live in Nashville, September 2011, with Airenti ‘Biber’ bow Series of test recordings-various [...]
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 [...]
May 12, 2013