Rodolphe Kreutzer and the singing violin
Rodolphe Kreutzer-Concerto No 15 Kreutzer 15th Concerto (dedicated to Pierre Baillot-Adagio) Violin : Peter Sheppard Skærved Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Mogrelia Kreutzer 14th Concerto (dedicated to Angelica Catalani) Adagio Violin : Peter Sheppard Skærved Slovak State…
Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets
Musicians and Patronage Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets Mozart’s last three string quartets are the direct result of the problematic relationship between musicians and patrons at the end of the 18th century. An advertisement placed in the Wiener Zeitung as late as…
Collaborate
Collaborate! Friday 22 January 2.30–4.00pm Royal Academy of Music London NW15HT Piano Gallery The collaborating interpreter enjoys a dangerously liminal position between composer and audience, and between composer and score. Peter Sheppard Skærved presents an exploration of this world, with…
Berkeley, Ca.
Croquis
Graveyard-Skt. Petri Kirke
Swift in NYC 2003
Paganini – ‘Segreto (1823)
Paganini-Segreto 1823 (Bruck-Wurlitzer MS) FIRST RECORDING Peter Sheppard Skaerved-(Stradivari 1699) (Engineer Jonathan Haskell) In October 1823, Paganini sent Germi his ‘segreto A’. This was his ‘sketch’ documenting the execution of complex harmonics for a single violinist. (The Bruck Wurlitzer MS).…
Liburn Jupolli-Eta Carinae
In 2006 I met the strikingly gifted and alarmingly young composer and improviser, Liburn Jupolli, in Kosova. We worked together in considerable detail on his interest in sounds which were on the edge of appearing and disappearing. This led to his…