Skopje
Rehearsing with the Skopje Mandolin Orchestra. June 2007
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Nicholas Mori-Prelude
December 31, 2009
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 first professor of violin at the new Royal Academy of Music. Despite the fact that he was the pre-eminent violinist in London, active as a teacher, soloist, chamber musician, publisher […]
Charles Ives-‘The Revival’
December 31, 2009
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 ago, he was insistent that we play Ives together. I will always be grateful for his intractability on this subject. This is the last movement of Ives’s 3nd Sonata, ‘The […]
Michael Alec Rose-Solo Works
December 31, 2009
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 young Primo Levi came to admire in his apprenticeship as a chemist and poet. In his memoir THE PERIODIC TABLE, Levi recalls his sense of wonder (searingly unironic, even in […]
Krzysztof Penderecki-1st and 2nd Quartets
December 31, 2009
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 Quartet in one movement) Krzysztof Penderecki 2nd QuartetPenderecki 2nd Quartet
Charles de Bériot – Scenes or Caprices, Duos Concertants, Spanish Airs
December 31, 2009
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 are, in my opinion, ideally suited to the clear and dramatic sound of the 1699 Stradivari on which I recorded them, the Crespi. Prelude or Improvisation (without Opus) 12 Scenes […]
Colours/Limits-Mihailo Trandafilovski
December 30, 2009
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 first of two events this week that he has masterminded, bringing living composers and young performers together in a unique environment. For the past few days we have been rehearsing his […]
Ole Bull – Quartet for One Violin
December 29, 2009
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 Dublin in 1837. This seems to be a work that he may have played with the bow beneath the violin. I will post a recording of this later, but to […]
Bach
December 29, 2009
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 November 2007) Bach-D minor Partita Sarabande D minor Sarabande Bach-B minor Partita Sarabande-Double Bach B minor Bach-C Major Sonata Largo C Major Bach (Violin-Stradivari 1699 ‘Crespi’ from the Collection of […]
Two Beethoven Fragments
December 29, 2009
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. Live performance with Yves Savary , London May 2002
December 31, 2009