SOUNDBOX Tuesday 29th May 1230 Pm Royal Academy of Music Museum Piano Gallery Viotti-Ideal Chamber Music with Inbar Verni-Harp Repertoire -Viotti-Sonata for Harp and Violin (dedicated to Lady Dunmore), plus Country Dances for 1808 & 1809 A celebration of Giovanni Battista Viotti through his private artistic world, which was always more important to him than […]
May 30, 2012
Giovanni Battista Viotti-Sonata, for Harp with Violin Accompaniment, dedicated to Lady Susan Dunmore Harp-Inbar Vernia, Violin-Peter Sheppard Workshop Recording-SOUNDBOX, Royal Academy of Music Museum, 29th Mary 2012 Allegro Brillante Adagio ‘composta da una dilettante’ Allegretto Viotti was also the last great soloist who as reportedly happy to work as an accompanist, whether to harpists, pianists […]
May 29, 2012
Beginning to explore the annual collections of Country Dances, full of references to current events, without which not fashionable music-loving home was complete. Workshop Recording of a Selection from the 1808 Set. London 9 4 14 (For Catherine Seymour) (I announce the titles as I play through) Live workshop recordings from SOUNDBOX at the Royal […]
May 25, 2012
Franz Clement-Variations on André Ernest Modeste Grétry’s opera ‘Barbe Bleu’ Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1734 ‘Habeneck’)
May 24, 2012
Pictures and Recordings from the concert and rehearsal 14th September 2012 Live Recordings from the concert (Courtesy V & A) Biber-Mystery Sonata XVI (Guardian Angel, Companion of Mankind)-plus a little Ruskin Nigel Clarke-Loulan (Voices in the Sand) J S Bach-Largo (C Major Solo Sonata)[https://www.sheppardskaerved.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Bach.mp3] Carly Lake-Horn talks about the experience of the space David […]
May 21, 2012
he very first ‘Cremona’ that I played was an astonishing Carlo Bergonzi a violin owned by the violinist Beatrix Marr, my great musical and artistic inspiration when I was very young. I was probably nine years old at the time. I had been expecting something special, but the ‘Yawp’ which came from the violin as […]
May 18, 2012
Steel Bow by G.B.Vuillaume (c.1837) Niccolo Paganini-Unpublished Prelude 1838 From the Collection of Andrew McGee Instruments-Vuillaume Rolled Steel Bow, Violin-Stradivari 1698 World Premiere recording.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) Workshop Recording- 21st May 2012 Wapping At the practice desk-Paganini Caprice No 10 and 22 with the Steel bow, held mid way […]
May 16, 2012
On Playing the Habeneck Strad by Guy Gallo I was not prepared I expected terror — Lineage bearing down — To cramp my hand. Yes, I dropped it over and over For a second, imagined splinters About my feet. I didn’t clutch. It wouldn’t let me. Then it was there, lodged On collarbone, […]
May 15, 2012
New work from Lars Bagger I have said before that I believe that the Danish composer, Lars Bagger, is a voice of tremendous courage for our times. ‘Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,/Oh still small voice of calm.” He has just contacted me, with typical restraint: “Have been writing some new pieces for […]
May 31, 2012