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Much of my work is sorted out in very disorganised journals. These are usually a rattlebag of drawings, writing, and collage. These have no virtue…
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Diary Entry, Ky’iv
Diary Entry Ky’iv 17 4 2000 This morning, I went with Natalya, my translator, to the ‘Lavra’ Monastery, the shrine of the ‘Cave’, where the…
The Exploded Bow-SOUNDBOX 12th January
SOUNDBOX Tuesday January 12th 1230pm String Gallery, Royal Academy of Music Museum, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5HT (02074805145) The Exploded…
Soundbox
SOUNDBOX! 4 -5 times a term I present SOUNDBOX, in the Museum of the Royal Academy of Music, London. These events take place in…
Rafet Rudi
Thomas Simaku
Thomas Simaku When Thomas Simaku graduated from the University in Tirana he had a high enough grade to have been immediately employed as a professor.…
Hinterlight & Trajectories
Jim Aitchison-Hinterlight & Trajectories At the end of 2009, the Kreutzer Quartet recorded two major works-his ‘Trajectories’, which is based on the explosive canvases of…
Joachim on Ole Bull
On Ole Bull Extracts from Joseph Joachim letters To Clara Schumann [HANOVER, December 12, 1860]-It is only partly owing to me that Ole Bull is…
Joseph Joachim
Samuel Wesley-Sonata
Samuel Wesley- F major Concertante Sonata for Violin and Piano KO508 PSS with Aaron Shorr-Piano Live recording-London May 2004 Engineer: Jonathan Haskell (astounding sounds) George…
David Matthews-Fugue 15
David Matthews-Fugue 15 Live Performance PSS: London 2009 Engineer: Colin Still (Optic Nerve) Fugue 15 David Matthews’ cycle of 15 Fugues is nothing short of…
Antoine Reicha
Quartet Op 48 No 1-Menuetto Reicha Op 48 Kreutzer Quartet-PSS, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde Live performance: London February 2008 Engineer: Colin Still…
working with Jan Philip Schulze
I have been working with the wonderful German pianist Jan Philip Schulze for over ten years, both as co members of Ensemble Triolog, Munich, and…
Skopje
Rehearsing with the Skopje Mandolin Orchestra. June 2007
Nicholas Mori-Prelude
Nicholas Mori-Prelude-1839 Peter Sheppard Skaerved (Recorded 2005) Engineer/Producer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) Viotti’s greatest British pupil was the young Nicholas Mori (1797-1839), who would become the…
Charles Ives-‘The Revival’
PSS with Aaron Shorr-Piano Wilton’s Music Hall June 2008 Engineer: Colin Still (Optic Nerve) When I first started working with Aaron Shorr, twenty years…
Michael Alec Rose-Solo Works
Michael Alec Rose-Urstoff LIVE World Premiere-Nashville March 2008 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Aaron Shorr-Piano The composer writes: “Urstoff” was one of the many technical terms the…
Krzysztof Penderecki-1st and 2nd Quartets
Krzysztof Penderecki Penderecki-1st Quartet Kreutzer Quartet PSS, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde St Bartholomew the Great 2008 Engineer: Jonathan Haskell (NB uploaded in 2 tracks-though…
Charles de Bériot – Scenes or Caprices, Duos Concertants, Spanish Airs
These Charles de Bériot studies and caprices were recorded in 2006, but have been only available online, so not many people have heard them. They…
Colours/Limits-Mihailo Trandafilovski
Colours/Limits-Mihailo Trandafilovski Today is a good day to celebrate the work of Mihailo Trandafilovski. We are playing his work at the South London Gallery tonight-the…
Ole Bull – Quartet for One Violin
I have been fascinated by Ole Bull for years. Today (15th August 2012), I have been thinking about his ‘Quartet for One Violin’, written in…
Bach
A selection of live Bach recordings will gradually appear here…. Two extracts from a concerts recorded at St Bartholomew the Great London (October a and…
Two Beethoven Fragments
From the Kafka Miscellany-the wonderful collection of sketches and fragments in the British Library. A Laendler and Canon (Hess 68 and 275), both from 1802.…
Beethoven Sonatas Op 30
A resource Page – Autumn 2020 Insights from Beethoven’s MSS? [in preparation ] In all of my writing about Beethoven, I realise, that I have…
Paganini’s Disciples-Ernesto Camillo Sivori
Ernesto Camillo Sivori (1815-1894) – Capriccio 1843-Eliza Wesley Scrapbook. World Premiere Recording 2005. Produced and Engineered-Jonathan Haskell (astounding sounds) Excluding the small works written for…