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Peter & Michael Alec Rose discuss Mendelssohn’s D minor Violin Concerto IN PREPARATION     Introducing two manuscripts

Quartet Choreography-New DVD on the way!                  

February 2nd 2012 Peter Sheppard Skaerved has been named the Viotti Lecturer in Performance studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Peter plays (the ‘Ranz…

Recording Bach Day 2 of recording the Sonatas and Partitas-February 13th.  St John the Baptist Aldbury-a perfect acoustic for Bach (for me, anyway) Peter Sheppard…

Jeremy Dale Roberts-Croquis 2 of these wonderful movements for String Trio, filmed by Colin Still (Optic Nerve), Sound by Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) at the…

30 Days of Tartini-‘Piccole Sonate’ Introduction: Improvising on Tartini’s Tasso  Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Stradivari 1698 (Joachim) Studio outtakes-Engineer Jonathan Haskell Giuseppe Tartini Day 32 Sonata 13 B…

Thomas Baltzar ( 1631 – July 24, 1663)-Prelude  Pp.34-5 John Playford-The Division Violin  (2nd Edition-London 1685) Workshop recording-Wapping 17th January 2011 Bow by Antonini Airenti, Violin, Richard…

Johann Paul von Westhoff(1656 – buried 17 April 1705) -B major Sarabande Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin St Bartholomew the Great London 2010 Engineer-Jonathan Haskell

Johann Georg Pisendel-Gigue sans Basse  (quoted in Telemann-der Getreue Musicmeister 1728-9)  (26 December 1687 — 25 November 1755) Workshop Recording-Saturday January 14th 2012 Wapping Violin…

Caprice Variations-George Rochberg   LINK to purchase            

Felipe Libon-Caprice ‘La Caccia’ From 30 Caprices dedicated to his teacher, Viotti.  WORKSHOP RECORDING Philippe (Felipe) Libon’s (1775-1838) parents sent their child  to London from…

Paul Pellay-Marcia Triunfal de Diablo Tejano (para I Str)   Mihailo Trandafilovski writes: ‘Just listening to Paul’s Thesaurus – fascinating, amazing range, feels like traveling…

Exploring François Xavier Tourte (1747–1835) Exploring a wonderful bow by Tourte, from the collection of Charles Beare, with the help of Pierre Baillot. THE PRELUDE…

Exploring a bow by Nicolas Léonard Tourte (b 1746; d c1807) Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot (1 October 1771 – 15 September 1842) helps me, with the aid of his Art…

Viotti Arrives, Viotti departs Listen: 1.Jacobin or not?2.Exiles3.An interregnum’s open space… Viotti-Ranz des Vaches (Peter Sheppard Violin)

    1st movementCello Cadenzacanto

David Matthews-Winter Journey Recorded June 2011 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Stradivari 1698 Engineer-Jonathan Haskell plus David Matthews-Three Studies  David Matthews visiting Janacek’s house. Brno 2004 (Photo PSS)…

Luca Francesconi-Mirrors -Quartet No 3 Kreutzer Quartet Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Mihailo Trandafilovski-Morgan Goff-Neil Heyde First sectionSecond sectionAudio rip from concert film. Malmo-November 2009

Olivier Messiaen- from ‘Quatuour pour le Fin du Temps’ Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus  Louange à l’Immortalité de Jésus Bridget MacRae-Cello, Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin ,  Aaron Shorr-Piano…

Bach, Beethoven, Mozart Manuscripts-SOUNDBOX Peter Sheppard Skaerved discusses issues arising from close examination of composers’s manuscripts. What can they offer to today’s performer! 18th September…

Paganini in Washington. A long term collaboration with the collections of the Library of Congress-Washington     A word of explanation. I am deepening my…

SOUNDBOX The Analysis of Beauty. September 2011   Introduction School of Nations