‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’ (Pre-Concert Talk.Given at Wilton’s Music Hall January 4th 2009) Two versions of Telemann’s signature The very first time that I performed the cycle of solo works by Bach, was in a medieval church in…
Schubert and Mendelssohn at Wilton’s Music Hall December 2009 Schubert Update: link On the 13th December, the Kreutzers will be back at Wilton’s for two December concerts. These two concerts focus on the dramatic music which Schubert and…
Kreutzer Quartet at York University The Kreutzers are ‘Ensemble in Residence’ the University of York. On the 15th December they will be giving a concert and working with compositions students there. One young composer from York, Benjamin Gait…
George Rochberg -Caprice Variations Conversations and Commentaries listen: Rochberg-Pachelbel Variations (Authorised Transcription by Peter Sheppard Skaerved) I Solisti di Zagreb (directed by PSS) (From conversations in Philadelphia, London, and Saarbrücken 2001-2002) In Banja Luka, I first ‘got’ ‘Caprice Variations’, or…
Schubert-The Strange case of the Quintet Pre-concert talk/lecture-given at York University, and Royal Academy of Music. Autumn 2009 Arnold Schoenberg to Bud Behrens, January 31st 1949, Lost Angeles “Generalisation produces too often the ridiculous./ Whether music should arouse…
Bach, Goethe and Hans Christian Andersen Transcription of a pre concert talk given at Wilton’s Music Hall. December 2008 Most musicians discover the Mendelssohn Octet when we are, or rather, were, around about the same age that he wrote it.…
Bursting open the Salon Doors Talk given at Wilton’s Music Hall-30th November 2008 The one unifying feature of most late 18th century chamber music is that we know next to nothing about the circumstances of its performance. Of…