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…
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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…
Volodmyr Runchak
With Volodmyr Runchak in Odessa 2001 Volodymyr Runchak-non-concerto 1 + 16 PSS-Violin Conductor-Volodymyr Runchak Ukrainian Symphony Orchestra Hall of Columns, K’yiv 2000 Volodymyr Runchak-Sounds re-sounds…
Beethoven Explored
Peter and Aaron have taken ‘Beethoven Explored’ worldwide. What began as a research project supported by the Royal Academy of Music and the London College…
Moses
Moses One of the most instantly recognisable, and most imitated of Pagnini’s show pieces, has become known as the Moses Fantasy. This work has inspired…
Coffee, Libraries, Losses and Gains.
Coffee, Libraries, Losses and Gains. 27-12-09 I have found myself the perfect cup of coffee, in the old market quarter of Sarajevo, the Bašaršija.…
Paganini Prelude-Vuillaume Steel Bow
Niccolo Paganini-Unpublished Prelude 1838 From the Collection of Andrew McGee Instruments-Vuillaume Rolled Steel Bow, Violin-Stradivari 1698 World Premiere recording. PSS 2005 Engineer/producer-Jonathan Haskell (astounding sounds)…
Calumnies
Calumnies Violinists have often been assumed to be feckless wastrels. In 1802, Wilhelm Triest wrote a pen-portrait of this popular cliché, one which Paganini seemed…
Paganini Capriccio No 16
The G minor Capriccio No 16 is where I feel most in the presence of Bach, or at the very least, that Paganini was very…
Paganini Caprice No 9
On Paganini – Capricci Op 1 No.9 E Major Caprice No 9 seems to take place in a forest, though of course this is not…
Mozart and the divine Bohemian
Mozart and the Divine Bohemian Talk given prior to performance of Mozart-Quintets in D Major, E Flat Major, and Adagio K411. Wilton’s Music Hall September…
Mozart and the Quintet, thoughts on…
Mozart and the Quintet, thoughts on… Bishop Joseph Hurdalek (Mozart’s album) ‘When Orpheus’ magic lute rings out, Amphion to his lyre sings, The…
Evis Sammoutis at Wiltons
Today we are delighted to bring the fantastically colourful music of Evis Sammoutis to Wiltons for the first time. We have been working very…