Antoine Reicha-Sappho
Antoine Reicha Overture ‘Sappho’ (arr. A. Reicha) Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Aaron Shorr-Piano 2004 Also: Reicha-Duos, Duo Concertant The most influential musician in post-Revolutionary Paris…
Blog
Latest
Wilton’s -Spring Concerts
The next two Kreutzer concerts at Wilton’s Music Hall will take place on the 18th April and 23rd May. More details will be posted soon.
New Year 2004
Summer 2005
Thorvaldsen Study
Odessa
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…
Golden Horn
Aya Sofiya, Istanbul
Breakfast in St Paul, MN
Brighton Pavilion in the rain
Beypazar
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…
Beethoven and Josef Mayseder
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…
Beethoven-Sonata Op 96 – Recording and writing
The Sonata Op 96 was the last work for piano with violin ‘accompaniment’, which Beethoven completed. His previous work for this combination, the somewhat inappropriately…
Violin Concerto
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,…
Nigel Clarke-Pernambuco
Nigel Clarke Pernambuco Live performance: Pharos Contemporary Music Festival. Nikosia. 2009 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Hill 1900) In 1993, Nigel Clarke and I…
Hans Werner Henze-Fünf Nachtstücke
Hans Werner Henze-Fünf Nachtstücke Film of the whole thing with Score-recorded with Aaron Shorr 2004 Listen Zwei Hirtenlieder: 2 Hirtenlieder PSS with Aaron Shorr, Nashville…
Winter train
‘A Thesaurus of Violinistic Fiendishness’
Paul Pellay’s Thesaurus of Violinistic Fiendishness is one of the most colourful and technically challenging works ever written for the violin. Each of the seven books…
Michael Hersch
In 2004, George Rochberg introduced me to the composer Michael Hersch. Later that year, he wrote a first small piece for me, Five Fragments (2004).…
Dmitri Smirnov
Dmitri Smirnov-Amore Sola 2006 Live Performance in the Enlightenment Gallery 2010 Dmitri Smirnov-Partita 1985 Peter Sheppard-Maurin Stradivarius 1714 (recorded 1995) Playing Dmitri Smirnov’s ‘Amore Sola’…
Simon Shaw-Miller
A true inspiration. Simon Shaw-Miller-Art Historian, collaborator since 2004. Photos: Richard Bram 2007 For more information, go to: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Visible-Deeds-Music-Wagner-Cage/dp/0300107536/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273495432&sr=1-1