Spencer Topel-Torre for solo violinPeter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Workshop Recording London August 31st 2012 In 2007 I was visiting Cornell University to give concerts and a workshop. I met with the very impressive young composer Spencer Topel, who gave me this lovely Epithalam he had written for friends. I pulled it off the shelf today. So I […]
August 31, 2012
I must go out in the world, to bring my spark to a flame Hans Christian Andersen’s acquaintance with Ole Bull is an intriguing one. I find it fascinating because the two had so much in common. But perhaps the aspect of both their lives which they shared the most, is that, which posthumously has […]
August 30, 2012
The secret of collaging….Elliott Schwartz at Work Elliott once told me that one of his images for the musical imagination was ‘driving down the freeway, fiddling with the car radio, skipping from channel to channel, music to music, voice to voice’. A snapshot of this at work. I am editing together his wonderful ‘Water Music’ […]
August 29, 2012
In August 1834 Ole Bull was in Padua, where he met a 90-year old violinist who had been a student of Tartini, who had died 64 years earlier. He wrote to his mother: “I sought him out, and begged him to take his violin so that I might hear him play. With the greatest amiability, […]
August 20, 2012
For Fred Newman 20 08 12 (Lecture & a Hymn) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (plus Foghorns in the Bay of Biscay) [audio: https://www.sheppardskaerved.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/for-fred.mp3]
August 18, 2012
Ole Bull-Halling til Studenternes Selskab den 10de December 1848Workshop recording, London 31st August 2012 Peter Sheppard Skaerved Ole Bull-Fanitulla (His transcription today housed in the Univeristetsbibliothek, Oslo) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Workshop Recording, London August 29th 2012) From the 28th to 30th March 1849, there was a series of tableaux at Christiana (Oslo) Theatre. One of […]
August 18, 2012
Mendelssohn-D minor Violin Concerto (Slow Movement-reconstruction of original version by Peter Sheppard Skaerved) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin/Director with Rachel Meerloo, Aisha Orazabayeva, Valerie Wellbanks, Jess Hayes, Diana Mathews, Morgan Goff, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Annabelle Berthome-Reynolds, Alice Barron, Preetha Narayanan, Midori Komachi, Steven Crichlow/Live performance. Wiltons Music Hall May 2012 (Recording Courtesy of Colin Still)
August 16, 2012
Elliott Schwartz-2nd Quartet ‘For Louise and Aaron’ European Premiere. 13th July 2012 St Johns Church, Waterloo (Waterloo Festival) Kreutzer Quartet (Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde)Recording Courtesy Colin Still (Optic Nerve) Michael Alec […]
August 15, 2012
Judith Bingham & Paganini’s ‘Red Book’ at Wilton’s – SoundBox More on the ‘Red Book’ LINK 14th August 2012 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin/Speaker Judith Bingham- Composer
August 14, 2012
A thoughtful review of David Matthews’s masterpiece, with Sibelius at King’s Place. Live performances recorded at Wilton’s below Kreutzer Quartet (Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde, Mihailo Trandafilovski) Live at the glorious Wilton’s Music Hall 19th June 2011 Recording Courtesy of Colin Still (Optic Nerve) Jean Sibelius D minor Quartet Op 56 ‘Voces Intimae’ […]
August 31, 2012