PSS with Aaron Shorr-Piano Wilton’s Music Hall June 2008 Engineer: Colin Still (Optic Nerve) When I first started working with Aaron Shorr, twenty years ago, he was insistent that we play Ives together. I will always be grateful for…
Michael Alec Rose-Urstoff LIVE World Premiere-Nashville March 2008 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Aaron Shorr-Piano The composer writes: “Urstoff” was one of the many technical terms the young Primo Levi came to admire in his apprenticeship as a chemist and poet. In…
Krzysztof Penderecki Penderecki-1st Quartet Kreutzer Quartet PSS, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde St Bartholomew the Great 2008 Engineer: Jonathan Haskell (NB uploaded in 2 tracks-though Quartet in one movement) Krzysztof Penderecki 2nd QuartetPenderecki 2nd Quartet
These Charles de Bériot studies and caprices were recorded in 2006, but have been only available online, so not many people have heard them. They are, in my opinion, ideally suited to the clear and dramatic sound of the 1699…
Colours/Limits-Mihailo Trandafilovski Today is a good day to celebrate the work of Mihailo Trandafilovski. We are playing his work at the South London Gallery tonight-the first of two events this week that he has masterminded, bringing living composers and young…
I have been fascinated by Ole Bull for years. Today (15th August 2012), I have been thinking about his ‘Quartet for One Violin’, written in Dublin in 1837. This seems to be a work that he may have played with…
A selection of live Bach recordings will gradually appear here…. Two extracts from a concerts recorded at St Bartholomew the Great London (October a and November 2007) Bach-D minor Partita Sarabande D minor Sarabande Bach-B minor Partita Sarabande-Double Bach B…
From the Kafka Miscellany-the wonderful collection of sketches and fragments in the British Library. A Laendler and Canon (Hess 68 and 275), both from 1802. Live performance with Yves Savary , London May 2002
A resource Page – Autumn 2020 Insights from Beethoven’s MSS? [in preparation ] In all of my writing about Beethoven, I realise, that I have never included the thing which I have talked about the most, which is, of course,…
Ernesto Camillo Sivori (1815-1894) – Capriccio 1843-Eliza Wesley Scrapbook. World Premiere Recording 2005. Produced and Engineered-Jonathan Haskell (astounding sounds) Excluding the small works written for the young Sivori, we have no accounts of Paganini writing a work for another violinist…