Sadie Harrison-Same Strand (September 2012) Workshop recording: Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1698) London 30-09-2012 The composer notes: ‘A sleepless night…and a little piece to show for it…after your gentle ‘Same Strand’. All is self-explanatory.'(30th September 2012) This piece responds to an old drawing of mine, made on an iron-cold late december morning, by the Sound, […]
September 29, 2012
Walking 29 09 2012 with Marius. Berkamsted-Wendover-Chesham. Here, Buckland Common. Graphite, Charcoal, Ink, Earth, Spit.
September 24, 2012
September 24, 2012
Bull, Ole, 1810-1880-“Capriccio a Violino solo.” At the end: “Berlin d. 17[?] Februar 18[3]9 Ole B. Bull.” Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Workshop Recording. London September 24th 2o12) Ganz, Leopold, 1806-1869. Album of autographs, 1837-1864. (Pierpont Morgan Library New York City/Fulton Deposit) I found this fragment in July 2006 in the astounding album kept by the oboist […]
September 23, 2012
Jim Aitchison-a dialogue with Albrecht Dürer Jim Aitchison-Study after Melencolia I. Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Workshop Recording, London 23rd September 2012) The compoer writes:’Jim Aitchison, Two Studies after Melencolia I This deeply resonant image has haunted me for years, and it has taken all of this time to find the courage to make a compositional approach. […]
September 23, 2012
Sadie Harrison-Coffee with Aphra Behn: Westminster Abbey Cloisters (September 2012) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Outtake recorded in the presence of the composer, June 18th 2014-Aldbury (Engineer Jonathan Haskell) This was a very moving moment in recording with the composer. Sadie was searching for a radiant approach to this movement-that as the material built, it should feel […]
September 21, 2012
September 21, 2012
Franz Schubert – Fantasie in C major, D.934Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Guarneri ‘del Gesu’ The Kreisler)/Aaron Shorr-Piano Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington DC November 2006
September 19, 2012
Elliott Schwartz-String Quartet No 2 (Outtakes) Kreutzer Quartet (Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Mihailo Trandafilovski-Morgan Goff-Neil Heyde) Engineer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) St John the Baptist Church, Aldbury 19th September The Composer Writes When in the spring of 2007 I began making sketches for a new string quartet, the piece was to be a homage to Aaron […]
September 30, 2012