26th December 2013. Inspired by wonderful days of candlelit conversation with friends, and a gift of Samuel Pepy’s Diary, I found myself playing Nicolao Matteis at the table this evening. Nicolao Matteis-Selected Preludes (Peter Sheppard Skaerved) Andrea Amati 1560 (bow…
Photos of ‘Facing Enlightenment’ British Museum 13 12 13 (Photos Courtesy of the British Museum) Peter Sheppard Skaerved, with Julian Perkins, Lucy Railton, David Gorton, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Diana Mathews
Over the next few weeks, I will be announcing details of ‘Schubert & the Violin’. This will be a long-term project of performances, recordings, research and writing looking at Schubert through his long term involvement with the violin. In the…
The last rehearsal of the year, a joyous morning playing Mihailo Trandafilovski’s 2 ‘Duos’ with Roderick Chadwick (we are recording them in a month). We first played No2 4 years ago, but had no documentation, so, in advance of the…
Mihailo Trandafilovski has just completed a piece which he describes as the kernel of much of his recent large-scale chamber and choral works- ‘Arc-en-Ciel’. This 4 minute piece is filled with the vertiginous rhapsody that characterises much of his work.…
Composer David Gorton is moving towards a large-scale work for strings, rooted in the Lachrymae of John Dowland. To begin the process, he has arranged this work, and Byrd and Randall’s take on it for strings. I have then made a…