Bows! Soundbox September 2006 Royal Academy of Music Museum Peter Sheppard Skaerved discusses Paganinis rise through the Salons of Rome, and his bow choices. Introduction-what bow did Paganini use? Leigh Hunt’s catalogue of Paganini’s bowing techniquesTourte and the lineage from ViottiPaganini sits for IngresSalons and Ferrules…Salon to stageA better choice than the ‘modern Tourte’?Suppleness and [...]
December 3, 2011
2005 Danish Flute virtuoso Janne Thomsen talks about colour, influences and dynamic range. Extract from SOUNDBOX interview with Peter Sheppard Skaerved. (Audio rip from basic video recording) Royal Academy of Music Museum
November 25, 2011
SOUNDBOX – Mozart’s late string quartets 23 09 08 Royal Academy of Music Museum Peter Sheppard Skaerved. 1. Introduction-patronage 2. New Hierarchies 3. The Divine Bohemian 4.Viola Viola? 5. Ending Listen-Mozart K251 Andante (Kreutzer Quartet and Guests) live at Wiltons Music Hall
November 24, 2011
Introducing the Rattray/Woolaston/Siddall Cannone Copy SOUNDBOX Royal Academy Museum Paganini in London 2006 Peter Sheppard Skaerved in conversation with Michael Fendt about Viotti as the dream team finish the one-week copy of Paganini’s ‘Il Cannone’ , ‘in the white’ to general uproar!
November 24, 2011
Tartini-30 Solo Sonatas SOUNDBOX at the RAM 23 November 2010 TO HEAR OUTTAKES FROM THE COMPLETE CYCLE-studio sessions 2011. Go to: 30 DAYS OF TARTINI Tartini Menuet-Violin-Peter Sheppard Skaerved 1. Beginning at the beginning 2. Practical work with the MS 3. Discretion 4.Burney 5.The First Study 6.Useful things
November 23, 2011
SOUNDBOX-Mihailo Trandafilovski (First Meeting) 2005 Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Aaron Shorr and the composer In 2005, I was invited to Skopje to play a concert of new Macedonian music. One of the pieces that I played there was Mihailo Trandafilovski’s ‘Duo No 1′ for Violin and Piano. I was not able to spend time with the [...]
November 23, 2011
SOUNDBOX-Elliott Schwartz in conversation 26 04 05 LISTEN: Tapestry at the Library of Congress 1. Introduction 2. Memorial in Two Parts discussed 3. Crumb, Rochberg, shared languages 4. Crumb’s Berceuse, and the conversation continues 5. The composer has to cater to the eccentricity of the performer! 6.Real-time commentary 7. Without Ives? 8. Discontinuity-present all [...]
November 22, 2011
Edvard Grieg/Michael Finnissy-Piano QuintetMichael Finnissy-’Grieg Quintettsatz’ Kreutzer Quartet Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde Live at Wilton’s Music Hall 10th June 2008 Recording courtesy of Colin Still (optic nerve ) LINK-Grieg Quartet Op 27-same concert! Composer to Composer-Michael Finnissy on his completion of Grieg’s Piano Quintet SOUNDBOX 10-6-2008 Royal Academy of Music [...]
November 20, 2011
Joseph Joachim-Duetto Pastorale (SOUNDBOX discussion) Autumn 2011 SOUNDBOX discussion/workshop-Royal Academy of Music Museum Peter Sheppard Skaerved & Mihailo Trandafilovski (Violins) plus Neil Heyde and Morgan Goff in conversation (Kreutzer Quartet)
November 20, 2011
Ian Wilson-Cartographies (written for PSS and the Galeria Rufino Tamayo Mexico City 2004) (workshop performance-SOUNDBOX Royal Academy of Music 2004-audio from camera-very low fi!!!) Ian Wilson describes the genesis of CARTOGRAPHIES the piece is played. Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1699 ‘Crespi’)
December 13, 2011