The dream of the Field Cricket (Gryllus Campestris) 6 calls, for Laurence Rose (workshop recording. Copenhagen 14 4 19) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. (For Laurence Rose) Single Field cricket chirrup-slowed down 500x Over the past year, I have been thinking about Field Crickets a lot. I was encouraged in this direction by […]
January 26, 2018
In the studio: Klagenfurt Manuscript 25 1 18 People often ask what goes on in recording. Here’s one answer – the first take from yesterday’s recording. It’s the very first movement of the enormous, anonymous, 1685 Klagenfurt Ms. You will hear that I play this ‘Preambulus’ 4 times. Each reading is slightly different, and there’s […]
July 14, 2017
Music from DELITIAE PHILOSOPHICAE ET MATHEMATICAE Der Philosophischen und Mathematischen Erquickstunden – 1653 Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp & Berns, Jörg Jochen Johannes Welltern – Allemanda (Scordatura) G D G B Violin attrib to Gaspar da Salo (doubtful)- 16th century Brescian (?)- originally 3 String Peter Sheppard Skaerved – Workshop recording (Wapping 14 7 17)
January 15, 2014
Facing Enlightenment II – Peter Sheppard Skaerved LINK TO BLOG 1 On December 13th, I returned to the British Museum for the next stage of my adventure with the wonderful ‘Enlightenment Gallery’project page . A joy of this unique room, is that it is not only an exhibit concerning the histories of ideas, but a […]
October 15, 2013
Ole Bull-Sæterjentens Søndag (Arr.Johann Svendsen) Live in Dover. Maison Dieu (Town Hall) 11 October 2013 Longbow (Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Aisha Orazbayeva, Tanya Sweiry, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Shulah Olive, Alice Barron, Annabelle Berthome Reynolds, Preetha Narayanan, Morgan Goff, Diana Mathews, Val Wellbanks, Evie Heyde, Rachel Meerloo) (Recorded and engineered by Colin Still-Optic Nerve Productions) TRANSIT:Pulp & Rags […]
October 12, 2013
TRANSIT: Pulp & Rags (Dover Arts Development ‘War & Peace’ Grand Finale’) 11th October 2013. Dover Town Hall (Maison Dieu) Ole Bull-Sæterjentens Søndag (Arr.Johann Svendsen)(Recorded and engineered by Colin Still-Optic Nerve Productions) Malene Skaerved-‘Dogger Fisher German Bight Humber Thames Dover Wight’ (read by PSS & Nigel Clarke-‘Dogger Fisher German Bight Humber Thames Dover Wight’ Longbow (Peter […]
September 21, 2013
First walk in the Vidden (Bergen) 27th September 2013
May 12, 2013
Malene Skaerved & Peter Sheppard Skaerved-a conversation In 2005, we attended a debate organised by Blueprint Magazine at Christchurch, Spitalfields. Our reaction turned into to a written conversation, and it was suggested that we might turn it into an article for the magazine. However, when we realised how much was going to be removed to […]
February 7, 2013
The Kreutzer Quartet have been associated with the music of Reicha, presenting his revelatory quartets, in modern and historical contexts, at their concert series at Wilton’s Music Hall London. Peter Sheppard Skaerved has also recorded Reicha’s cyclic chamber music extensively-the monumental 12 Duos for Violin and Cello, and his last major chamber work, the Duo Concertant (https://www.sheppardskaerved.com/2011/06/anton-reicha-duo-concertant/). This […]
March 8, 2018