Collaboration outcomes – Hafliði Hallgrimsson

Posted on June 18th, 2019 by


‘Collaboration outcomes’ is a series of posts introducing some of the musical outcomes of my work with my friends the composers.

I have worked with Hafliði Hallgrimsson for over two decades, and we have collaborated on String Quartets, Duos and Solo works. Here’s a selection of recordings of solo and duo works.

Hafliði Hallgrimsson. – a composer of genius. 15 5 19

Hafliði Hallgrímsson -‘Klee Sketches’

Peter Sheppard Skaerved – Violin (Girolamo Amati 1628)

Recording Outtakes – 15 5 19 St Michael’s Highgate

Engineer – Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds)

Klee practises the accompaniment to a popular song
And now for the art of string crossing
Klee experiments with a new scale
Klee takes a legato line for a walk
Do not neglect your pizzicato Herr Klee
Frau Klee is Sleeping
Klee entertains Kandinsky
Klee the artist practises the violin
Klee sounds out an etching
Frau Klee is speaking
Klee Sketches a Tree
Klee plays at the grave of his father
Klee draws a large butterfly
Klee takes a legato line for a walk
Klee in the Aviary

Offerto

Recorded 1995. (Violin-Stradivari 1718 ‘Maurin’ -Collection of the Royal Academy of Music)

Written in Sand

Lines without words

The Flight of Time

Almost a Hymn

Hafliði Hallgrímsson – 7 Epigrams

Peter Sheppard Skaerved _violin

Neil Heyde -Cellos

1. A languorous window stands white (Homage to Pasternak)

2. Behind me stands an empty cage (Homage to O. Mandelstam)

3.The Captive Spirit (Homage to Tsvetayeva)

4. Responsorium (Homage to N. Mandelstam)

5. Night Train (Homage to Shostakovich)

6. Mystical Navigation (Homage to Akhmatova)

7. Flight (The Distant Shadow)