This violinist’s thoughts: Mozart E minor Sonata K.304 The Electress Maria-Elisabeth, dedicatee of this set of sonatas (published by Sieber of Paris) in the Autumn of 1778 was clearly a keyboard player. No fewer than three of the her portraits depict her at, or with harpsichords or pianos. Mozart presented her with the engraved set […]
December 15, 2015
Corrette, Michel-Menuets 1,2,3 ‘L’école d’Orphée’ Op.18 Violin-Chappuy ca. 1760, Bow- FX Tourte ca 1770) (Workshop-‘at the practice desk’ recording 17 12 15) (15th December 2015) A new project begins, bringing together an astonishing and immaculate violin by Chappuy and the L’école d’Orphée (1738) by Michel Corrette. I will post more about this in the next […]
December 13, 2015
Schubert-B flat String Trio (1817) Live at Wilton’s Music Hall Kreutzer Quartet Winter Series Peter Sheppard Skaerved Violins Neil Heyde –Cello Guest Artist-Diana Matthews-Viola Wilton’s Music Hall 7th December 7.30pm Franz Schubert-B Flat Major String Trio D.581 (1817) Allegro ModeratoAndante-Menuetto: allegretto-Rondo: allegretto
December 13, 2015
…as so often happens when recording, we end up with choices which are too hard to make. Here’s the slow movement of: Schubert-D Major Sonata D384 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Leopold Widhalm, Nuremberg 1782) Bow (F X Tourte Paris ca 1770) Julian Perkins-Square Piano (Clementi, London 1801) …four full takes, no edits-different ornamentation, octave displacements….but I […]
December 12, 2015
Overnights. 1915-2015 for DMAG/Joined Up
December 11, 2015
Schubert-D 355 8 Ländler for Solo Violin 1816 Violin-Peter Sheppard Skaerved (Girolamo Amati 1629) Live, Wilton’s Music Hall 7th January 2015 I have never really understood why we violinists ignore a vast tranche of our solo repertoire. From the mid 18th to the mid 19th century, hundreds, if not thousands, of dances for one and […]
December 10, 2015
Sadie Harrison-Broken Wing, after Leonardo 2015 Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Mihailo Trandafilovski-Violins Deptford Council Chambers, Goldsmiths 28 1 16 Wiltons Music Hall 7th December 2015 Recordings courtesey of Colin Still (Optic Nerve Productions)
December 4, 2015
Schubert-Three Sonatas for Piano & Violin 1816 Peter Sheppard Skaerved – Violin (Leopold Widhalm 1782) Bow (F X Tourte 1770-1800) Julian Perkins-Square Piano (Clementi 1801) Raw outtakes from recording 3 12 15 St John the Baptist Aldbury Engineer-Jonathan Haskell, Astounding Sounds D Major Sonata Allegro Molto Andante Allegro Vivace Andante A Minor Sonata Allegro Moderato […]
December 27, 2015