December 2017

Anon: Klagenfurt Handskrift (ca. 1685) – G minor Minuet KFH (30)  Peter Sheppard Skaerved – Violin Stradivari 1685 (Scordatura GDAD) The Forge/Craft Central  Composition and Craft 1st December 2016    Recording courtesy of Colin Sill (Optic Nerve)    

Sadie Harrison- ‘Tarab’ for Two Violins (World Premiere) Peter Sheppard Skaerved – Mihailo Trandafilovski Composition & Craft, The Forge, Isle of Dogs 1st December 2017

Johann Joseph Vilsmayr (1663 – 1722) –  G minora à Violino Solo Con Basso bellè imitate (Artificiosus Concentus pro Camera) Peter Sheppard Skaerved – Antonio Stradivari 1685 (Tuned GDAD) Composition & Craft, The Forge, Isle of Dogs 1st December 2017    

Le Sieur de Machy-Pièces de violle (1685) Minuet Peter Sheppard Skaerved – Tenor violin (Barak Norman ca.1700) Composition & Craft, The Forge, Isle of Dogs 1st December 2017 

Roger Redgate – Caprice 1 WORLD PREMIERE – Peter Sheppard Skaerved – Girolamo Amati 1629 The Forge (Craft Central) Isle of Dogs, London Composition & Craft 1st December 2017 Recording Courtesy of Colin Still(Optic Nerve)

George Frederick Handel (1685 – 1759) –   G major Allegro (HWV407) (plus one division) ‘Preludes & Vollenteries’ VI -23rd November 2017 6 pm, St Mary Woolnoth Peter Sheppard Skærved -Violin (Girolamo Amati 1629) Recording courtesy of Colin Still (Optic Nerve)…

  Judith Bingham-‘Leonardo’s Mirror’ 23rd November St Mary Woolnoth (Preludes and Vollenteries 6) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Girolamo Amati 1629) Recording courtesy of Colin Still (Optic Nerve)  

Gloria Coates-Berceuse (Peter Sheppard Skaerved- Violin) Engineer: Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) Gloria Coates Quintet A personal view, by Peter Sheppard Skærved In the summer of 2015, the Kreutzer Quartet and Roderick Chadwick premiered Gloria Coates’ Piano Quintet at the Gasteig,…

In 2018,  I will be returning to the music of one of my favourite composers, and some one that I was lucky enough to call friend, George Rochberg. This will lead up to a performance of ‘Caprice Variations’, at St…