The Poster Man-John Orlando Parry (1810-1879) Peter Sheppard Skærved with Janet Snowman and Frances Palmer Available from : Academy Chimes Music Shop www.chimesmusic.com/academy-music-shop John Orlando Parry (1810-1879) Full text below: The Poster Man-John Orlando Parry (1810-1879) (Original article by…
Scena Amorosa The Scena Amorosa which Paganini described having composed for the Princess Elisa Bacciochi, is one of the 24 opere perdute (lost works) listed in the Thematic Catalogue of Paganini’s music Paganani gave an account in a letter published…
In the last years his life, the great composer, violinist and swordsman, Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770), seems to have laboured at a set of ca. 30 sonatas for solo violin. The resulting manuscript is most significant cycle of works for violin alone after…
A blue tram, with a broken windscreen, rattles and sparks its way past my table. Finding a decent cup of coffee in this city of dust and dry bread seems to have acquired a disproportionate importance. I persuaded the café…
Beypazar Although it was only April, the midmorning sun seared the back of my neck as we climbed to one of the escarpment that that cuts through the ‘Knight’s Market’ or Beypazar. For the town turns out to be constructed…
Beethoven and Josef Mayseder Joseph Mayseder- E Flat Major ‘Konzertirend Sonate’ AllegroMoltoAdagioRondo Allegro Ludwig van Beethoven-A major Sonata Op 47 (Kreutzer/Bridgetower) Adagio Sostenuto/PrestoAndante con variazionePrestoPresto Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1734-‘Habeneck), Aaron Shorr-Piano “Monday the 16th May (1803)…in the evening with…
I first heard Rochberg’s Violin Concerto when I was a ten year old, in the classic Stern recording. From the first outburst from Stern’s fiddle, the ‘great barbaric yawp’ which begins the concerto, I was transfixed, and terrified. It suddenly…
Diary Entry Ky’iv 17 4 2000 This morning, I went with Natalya, my translator, to the ‘Lavra’ Monastery, the shrine of the ‘Cave’, where the golden onion-domes and crosses of the Pechersky monastery blazed a brilliant welcome over the banks…
SOUNDBOX Tuesday January 12th 1230pm String Gallery, Royal Academy of Music Museum, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5HT (02074805145) The Exploded Bow (A preview) The Bow in use over timeAny bow bears the marks of its…
Moses One of the most instantly recognisable, and most imitated of Pagnini’s show pieces, has become known as the Moses Fantasy. This work has inspired imitations by composers from Lindley to Martinu. Our understanding and knowledge of the piece was…