Thomas Simaku
Thomas Simaku When Thomas Simaku graduated from the University in Tirana he had a high enough grade to have been immediately employed as a professor. But the government had other ideas and one did not argue with the Hoxha regime.…
Hinterlight & Trajectories
Jim Aitchison-Hinterlight & Trajectories At the end of 2009, the Kreutzer Quartet recorded two major works-his ‘Trajectories’, which is based on the explosive canvases of John Hoyland, and ‘Hinterlight’, which was commissioned for the tremendous exhibit of Mark Rothko at…
Joachim on Ole Bull
On Ole Bull Extracts from Joseph Joachim letters To Clara Schumann [HANOVER, December 12, 1860]-It is only partly owing to me that Ole Bull is playing. I wanted to get permission for him to give a con cert in the…
Joseph Joachim
Samuel Wesley-Sonata
Samuel Wesley- F major Concertante Sonata for Violin and Piano KO508 PSS with Aaron Shorr-Piano Live recording-London May 2004 Engineer: Jonathan Haskell (astounding sounds) George August Polgren Bridgetower and Bach On reading The Letters of Samuel Wesley/Professional and Social Correspondence…
David Matthews-Fugue 15
David Matthews-Fugue 15 Live Performance PSS: London 2009 Engineer: Colin Still (Optic Nerve) Fugue 15 David Matthews’ cycle of 15 Fugues is nothing short of miraculous, and I am greatly honoured to have played a small part in its birth.…
Antoine Reicha
Quartet Op 48 No 1-Menuetto Reicha Op 48 Kreutzer Quartet-PSS, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde Live performance: London February 2008 Engineer: Colin Still (Optic Nerve) The most influential musician in post-Revolutionary Paris was the Bohemian-born Antoine Reicha (1770-1836),…
working with Jan Philip Schulze
I have been working with the wonderful German pianist Jan Philip Schulze for over ten years, both as co members of Ensemble Triolog, Munich, and giving recitals together. Jan Philip is head of Lied at the Hanover Hochschule, and is…
Skopje
Rehearsing with the Skopje Mandolin Orchestra. June 2007
Nicholas Mori-Prelude
Nicholas Mori-Prelude-1839 Peter Sheppard Skaerved (Recorded 2005) Engineer/Producer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) Viotti’s greatest British pupil was the young Nicholas Mori (1797-1839), who would become the first professor of violin at the new Royal Academy of Music. Despite the fact that…