Macedonia Now at Wilton’s Music Hall
Macedonia Now at Wilton’s Music Hall-10th March 2013 This is the pre-concert talk which I gave before the concert: In 2005, I visited…
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Week in March
A week of inspiration, and the story of a day: March 2nd Perth Rehearsing Faure Piano Trio, with Roy Howat and Neil Heyde. Perth Concert…
The Cambridge Caprices (in preparation)
The Cambridge Caprices On the 1st March 2013, I began a new project with a group of composers and musicians gathered at the Music Faculty…
Scotland 2-3rd March 2013
On the tube-26th February 2013
William Bolcom-Sonata No. 4 (Live Recording)
William Bolcom-Sonata No. 4 (Live Recording – London January 1998) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1734 ‘Habeneck’) Junko Kobayashi-Piano I. Allegro brillante II. White Nights III.…
Hans Werner Henze-Für Manfred (1989)FILM
Reicha Op 48 …and a sneak into a rehearsal of Op 49
The Kreutzer Quartet have been associated with the music of Reicha, presenting his revelatory quartets, in modern and historical contexts, at their concert series…
Grims Ditch and Pitstone Hill in the Snow, from Church End
Grims Ditch and Pitstone Hill in the Snow, from Church End Walking Ivinghoe Aston to Tring 23 1 13, after editing Beethoven
Franconia January 2013
Franconia January 2013
TSI
Tate St Ives David Gorton, Priaulx Rainier more, Jim Aitchison, Richard Deacon, Neil, Bach, Jim/David,Morgan, Hepworth, Rose Tate Shibboleth, Tamayo Styles, Paik, Hersch South London Gallery…
Three Days in Bamberg 9-11th January 2013
I have just returned from a wonderful few days at the Villa Concordia in…
Beethoven and Rochberg. A saturday morning conversation
Beethoven and Rochberg -A Saturday morning conversation. Wapping 5th January 2013 Beethoven Sonata Op 12 No 1 D Major (2nd Movement-Variation 4) + George Rochberg-Caprice Variations…
Plane Trees. London. Winter 2012-13
Back in London, breakfast on the river, and a winter Plane tree 21-12-12
The Peabody Project (a work in progress)
The Peabody Project I have just returned from my third visit to the wonderful Peabody Conservatory, America’s oldest Music Academy, in Baltimore. The core of…
The edge of the woods, North Monroe St, Arlington, Va.
Two Morning Lights, Arlington Va. 16 12 12.
This was painted at the kitchen table of my friend Julianna Potts in Arlington, on a very cold December morning. Here is the movement from…
Baker Street to Wapping 10 12 12
…the way home after rehearsing Telemann with Mihailo Trandafilovski- Ruisdael on my mind all the way to Wapping
Sunday Night 9-12-12 Telemann-Fantasies, Henze-Serenade (for Thursday at Peabody)
Munich-London December 2-8th 2012
Laura Konjetsky-‘die Rote Zugabe’
Laura Konjetsky-‘die Rote Zugabe’ 5 12 12.Munich. This morning, preparations begin for a premiere in Bamberg next month. The pianist/composer Laura Konjetsky has written me…
Morton Feldman-‘Violin and String Quartet’
Morton Feldman-‘Violin and String Quartet'(Workshop recording) 5th December 2012Peter Sheppard Skaerved,Max Peter Meis, Eli Nakagawa-Hawthorne, Kelvin Hawthorne,Bridget MacRae. (I have broken this single span into…
Sadie Harrison in the Shoe Factory
Sadie Harrison in the Shoe Factory Sadie Harrison-‘Sheppard’s Meadow’ (26th November 2012)Recorded in the ‘Shoe Factory’ Nikosia, Cyprus. 28th November 2012 This is the latest…
Anton Reicha- Duo Op. 84 No 5 D major
Anton Reicha- 12 Duos pour violon & Violoncello, precedes d’un petit Traite… Op. 84, Bk. 1 & 2. (Paris : Gambaro, [n.d.])Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, Beate…
Anton Reicha-Duo No 4 E Flat Major Op. 84 No 4
Anton Reicha- 12 Duos pour violon & Violoncello, precedes d’un petit Traite… Op. 84, Bk. 1 & 2. (Paris : Gambaro, [n.d.])Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, Beate…