Erik Satie- Choses vues à droite et à gauche (sans lunettes) 1914 (Published 1916) Choral hypocrite Fugue à tâtons Fantaisie musculaire Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Roderick Chadwick-Piano (Recording Outtakes-unedited 30 10 14 St Michaels Highgate) Engineer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) I have been fascinated with these three pieces for my entire career. returning to play and study […]
October 31, 2014
Enrique Granados’ ‘Danse Espagnole’ transcribed by the great Austrian violinist Fritz Kreisler, who wrote a heart breaking account of his time at the front. Granados died off the Kent coast, on his way back to Spain from making piano rolls in New York (pictured at top), and giving a recital at the White House for […]
October 31, 2014
Frederick Delius-Lullaby for a Modern Baby (1923) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Roderick Chadwick-Piano Recording Outtake-30 10 14 (St Michael’s Highgate) Engineer-Jonathan Haskell Fredrick Delius – Group including Frederick Delius and Philip Arnold Heseltine by Ernest Procter pencil, 1929 Delius was largely self-taught, like Elgar, and came from a German commercial family which had settled in […]
October 31, 2014
Michael Hersch – Of Sorrow Born: Seven Elegies for unaccompanied violin (2014) european premiere St Gabriels Pimlico 29 10 14 Peter Sheppard Skaerved – Violin (Amati 1628)
October 30, 2014
Nigel Clarke-‘Where a scarlet flower will blossom’ An Epitaph for Edith Cavell (2014) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Outtake 30 10 14) St Michael’s Highgate 30 10 14
October 29, 2014
29th October 2014 Opened the case this morning and was struck by the beauty of a violin, the music I will perform tonight (Michael Hersch) and record tomorrow (Boulanger, Satie, Delius, Ives, Janacek, Elgar) and the sound. Here it is, exploring Sadie Harrison’s ‘Early Responses to the Thames’. I just try not to get in […]
October 27, 2014
Sadie Harrison-Mansion IV ‘The Thousand Songs of Thebes’ ‘That day of lamentation shall come upon you-and the Weary of Heart heeds not their wailing and weeping cannot save a man from the Netherworld’ Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Mihailo Trandafilovski-Violins (22nd October 2014 -Outtake) Engineer-Jonathan Haskell a personal note I have never told the composer this, […]
October 26, 2014
Sadie Harrison – Ballare un passacaglia di ombre (August 2011) Recording outtake. 21 October 2014 (Engineer Jonathan Haskell) Peter Sheppard Skaerved=-Violin
October 23, 2014
Edward Cowie-Third Quartet ‘In Flight Music’ (2010) We gave the world premiere of this piece last year as part of our Wilton’s series. We spent a wondrous day recording it yesterday, and here are unedited materials from this most aerial of pieces. A joy to play, and a day of recording to remember. ( I […]
October 21, 2014
Sadie Harrison-‘Cymbeline’s Fort’ Outtake from Recording session-21 10 14 St John the Baptist Aldbury Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin and voice The weather-itself Supervised by the composer Engineer – Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) An inspiring day recording with the wonderful Sadie Harrison-she took the photo with the flowers, in the session-and a serendipitous intervention from the […]
October 31, 2014