Jim Aitchison-a dialogue with Albrecht Dürer Jim Aitchison-Study after Melencolia I. Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Workshop Recording, London 23rd September 2012) The compoer writes:’Jim Aitchison, Two Studies…
Sadie Harrison-Coffee with Aphra Behn: Westminster Abbey Cloisters (September 2012) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Outtake recorded in the presence of the composer, June 18th 2014-Aldbury (Engineer…
Franz Schubert – Fantasie in C major, D.934Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Guarneri ‘del Gesu’ The Kreisler)/Aaron Shorr-Piano Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington DC November 2006
Elliott Schwartz-String Quartet No 2 (Outtakes) Kreutzer Quartet (Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Mihailo Trandafilovski-Morgan Goff-Neil Heyde) Engineer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) St John the Baptist Church, Aldbury 19th…
Responding to Havsteen Mikkelsen
David Matthews – ‘After Adrienne’ 7-9th September 2012 Workshop Recording-Peter Sheppard Skaerved 11th September Wapping The composer writes: ‘Here is yet another piece from me:…
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Scott Lee – Fiddle Sketch The spirit of Ole Bull seems to be infecting a lot of what is crossing my practice desk this summer.…
The National Anthem arr. David Matthews Walking in the Chilterns today, clambering up ‘Cymbeline’s Castle’, and then coming home to Red Arrows & way too…
Sibelius-En Glad Musikant 1924/6(text by the Swedish composer, Ture Rangström, written over the notes) Workshop Recording-Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin. Wapping 6th September 2012 (Stradivari 1698, Bow…
Responding to Sven Havsteen-Mikkelsen (in preparation) Like any regular visitor to Denmark, I had been aware of this artist’s work without actively seeking it out.…
Hans Werner Henze-Für Manfred (1989)Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Workshop Recording 3rd September 2012) Wapping I have recorded and performed all of Henze’s major works for violin, but…
On December 4th 1868, a terrible riverboat accident took place on the Ohio River, resulting in the deaths of 162 passengers from the two paddle…
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Spencer Topel-Torre for solo violinPeter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Workshop Recording London August 31st 2012 In 2007 I was visiting Cornell University to give concerts and a workshop.…
I must go out in the world, to bring my spark to a flame Hans Christian Andersen’s acquaintance with Ole Bull is an intriguing one.…
The secret of collaging….Elliott Schwartz at Work Elliott once told me that one of his images for the musical imagination was ‘driving down the freeway,…
In August 1834 Ole Bull was in Padua, where he met a 90-year old violinist who had been a student of Tartini, who had died…
For Fred Newman 20 08 12 (Lecture & a Hymn) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (plus Foghorns in the Bay of Biscay) [audio: ]
Ole Bull-Halling til Studenternes Selskab den 10de December 1848Workshop recording, London 31st August 2012 Peter Sheppard Skaerved Ole Bull-Fanitulla (His transcription today housed in the…
Mendelssohn-D minor Violin Concerto (Slow Movement-reconstruction of original version by Peter Sheppard Skaerved) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin/Director with Rachel Meerloo, Aisha Orazabayeva, Valerie Wellbanks, Jess Hayes,…
Elliott Schwartz-2nd Quartet ‘For Louise and…