Lord Leighton
Lord Leighton – ( Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton by George Frederic Watts oil on canvas, 1881 Primary Collection) Lord Leighton’s studio in Holland Park was…
Blog
Latest
Fanny Burney
Frances Burney – ( Frances d’Arblay (‘Fanny Burney’) by Edward Francisco Burney oil on canvas, circa 1784-1785 ) In the 1780’s Fanny Burney wrote…
National Portrait Gallery-Only Connect
THIS WEEK: National Portrait Gallery: Only Connect 9 September 2011, 18:30 Free admission My exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery, ‘Only Connect’ runs until 27th…
York 2011
Two days in York: Kreutzer Quartet (PSS, Morgan Goff, Mihailo Trandafilovski and Neil Heyde) have just given two days of concerts and workshops at York University, where…
Beethoven/Transcribed Beethoven
Beethoven-Symphony No. 2 Version for Piano Trio by the Composer PSS-Violin, Beate Alteburg-Cello, Aaron Shorr Piano Concert Performance. London 2004 Aarton Shorr prepares….
Subcribe/Sponsor
Tartini-30 Solo Sonatas In January, Peter will begin recording the cycle of Tartini-30 Sonate Piccole which formed his groundbreaking series at St Bartholomew’s series in…
Journal December 2010
Flowers in Wapping December 15th 2010
Peter Maxwell Davies
With Max, recording ‘Mrs Linklater’s Song’ in London 2006
Paul Pellay-Book 3
Reelfoot Echoes Shimmying with Venus ….as glass particles descend… The feathered deity flew below…. Skullbone Scherzo Morpheus in Milan (TN) -after ‘Tell me why the…
Paul Pellay-Book 2
Paul Pellay – The Thesaurus of Violinist Fiendishness Book 2 Book 2 of Paul Pellay’s epic Thesaurus focuses on Goya’s terrifying ‘Black paintings’ Violin-Peter Sheppard…
Paul Pellay-Book 1
Riding the Comet’s Tail Rag-Caprice Triple-A (Anti-Ashcroft Aspersions) Past Silence’s Dusk-Death Valley 1979 Running on Eggshells The Warmonger’s Hoe-Down (Diatribe against W)
Building the list
Mihajlo Abramovski-Concerto Jim Aitchison-Shibboleth Jim Aitchison-Fugue Reflections Jim Aitchison-String Quartet Jim Aitchison-Memory Field Jim Aitchison-Rothko Sextet Jim Aitchison-Violin/Cello Duo Lars Bagger-Julen Velsignet Lars Bagger-Anton is…
Endless Darwins
Artist and composer of the day. Dorothy Schwartz and Elliott Schwartz We may infer from all this that a nearly similar taste for beautiful colours…
10-12-2010
Charles-Philippe Lafont-Variations on ‘La Vestale’
Charles-Philippe Lafont-Variations on ‘La Vestale’ (Spontini) PSS-del Gesu (Il Cannone-strung with Gut strings and Paganini’s bridge design) London February 2006 Fétis described Charles-Philippe Lafont’s (1781-1839) qualities:…
lafont
Recording Finnissy and Matthews
Recording, Finnissy and Matthews. New Arrival from LeFanu November 29th was a day of new music and snow. I spent the day with my friends in…
Tartini 26
Unknown Tartini
On November 24th, I played my reconstruction of Tartini’s unpublished 28th Piccola Sonata, as part of my last concert exploring all 30 sonatas. Here it…
Violin alone:
Vitali-Diverse Sonate e Partite Nicholas Mori-Prelude Paganini-A major Prelude Paganini-Adieu a Londres Edward Eliason-Farewell to my friend Paganini Charles De Beriot-Prelude Ole Bull-Capriccio Francois Cramer…
Michael Haydn
Johann Michael Haydn I have long been fascinated with the music of Johann Michael Haydn, a great innovator and influence on the teenage Mozart.…
Tartini, Dallapiccola, Rochberg
Composer of the Day As my fascination with this set of pieces grew, with a concomitant question of how best to present the sequence, there were…
David Gorton Films and process pictures
Zubin Kanga, E-Bow, Steinway Piano. David Gorton ‘Fosdyke Wash’ 12-11-2010 Rosetta Caprice (PSS-Violin) David Gorton with Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, and Neil Heyde.…
Faure
Tartini-Piccole Sonate
Tartini’s masterpiece TO HEAR OUTTAKES FROM THE COMPLETE CYCLE-studio sessions 2011. Go to: 30 DAYS OF TARTINI In the last years his life, the great composer, violinist…