Ludwig van Beethoven – ( Ludwig van Beethoven by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling, after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller line engraving, (1823) Beethoven never managed to visit London, but, by the end of his life, had become as influential a member of the…
Jelly D’Aranyi by Charles Geoffroy-Dechaume oil on canvas, 1920s? Bela Bartok-Second Sonata (1922) Dedicated to Jelly d’Aranyi Live Performance-Aaron Shorr-Piano, Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1698 ‘Joachim’) Wiltons Music Hall July 11th 2011 Engineer-Colin Still (Optic Nerve) 1st Movement- Jelly d’Aranyi…
George Bernard Shaw – (George Bernard Shaw by Sir (John) Bernard Partridge watercolour, circa 1925 ) George Bernard Shaw’s alter ego as a music critic, was corno di bassetto, (bassett horn). This polymath genius’s influence on music, over 70 years…
Yehudi Menuhin and Eric Fenby – (Eric William Fenby; Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin by Unknown photographer resin print, 1970s ) Yehudi Menuhin and Eric Fenby standing together: one composer’s amanuensis working with a transformative violinist. Fenby enabled the blind Delius to…
Priaulx Rainier – (Priaulx Rainier by George Newson bromide fibre print, 18 October 1984 ) Click on Highlighted words for Links The closest which the trail-blazing composer, Priaulx Rainier enjoyed to a community of like minded artists was afforded her…
Igor Stravinsky – (Samuel Dushkin; Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky by Paul Tanqueray vintage bromide print, 1934) To hear PSS playing Stravinsky/Dushkin-go to-TANGO Click on Highlighted words to follow links Stravinsky-Three Pieces for String Quartet (Kreutzer Quartet Peter Sheppard Skaerved/Mihailo Trandafilovski/Morgan Goff/Neil…
H.G. Wells – (Herbert George Wells by Gisèle Freund colour print, 1939 ) In 1926, it had been the writer HG Wells who stood up to the London critics in defence of Stravinsky’s Les Noces. He was passionate about music,…
Visiting Bartok’s last home on 57th Street, New York City. July 20th 2010 Austro-Hungary at the time that Bartok was collecting material, a few years before World War One. Marius Skaerved. Filming 16 06 2010 This summer, my…
Giovanni Battista Viotti walks out Viotti disdained to teach adults and was irked at being obliged to tutor those of bon ton. This print was published by the Libraire Martinet/Chez Martinet , in 1804. The Martinet Libraire was one of…
François Antoine Habeneck-12 Preludes Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Stradivari 1699 Engineer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) The violinist François Antoine Habeneck was the first great string player to be entirely trained in the Paris Conservatoire. Following his 1804 premier prix, he was awarded…