Nicola Matteis – D minor Allemande Peter Sheppard Skaerved – Workshop/practice desk recording Wapping 30 5 2019 This morning’s practice desk. Matteis, one of the Airenti bows, microphone, pens, pencils, timers, white-out
May 23, 2019
A note on music and buildings – just a note from Peter Sheppard Skærved 23th May 2019 COME TO THE CONCERT! LINK I avoided pronouncements on the relationship between music and architecture. But it is impossible to spend time working in a group of buildings which burst from a common impulse and from a group […]
May 19, 2019
A page from Sadie Harrison’s ‘Bavad Khair Baqi!’ on my desk. 19 5 19 I love practice. Every night, when everyone else has gone to bed, I set up my work table, with pens, pencil, Verbena tea, pencil sharpeners, mutes, and white-out, and get to work. I am aware that there are some different ideas […]
May 16, 2019
Peter Sheppard Skaerved – Violin (Girolamo Amati 1628) Recording Outtakes – 15 5 19 St Michael’s Highgate Engineer – Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds)
May 14, 2019
Edward Cowie – 6th Quartet Kreutzer Quartet – Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Clifton Harrison, Neil Heyde Recorded March 2019 St Michael’s Highgate Engineer -Jonathan Haskell
May 14, 2019
May 13, 2019
12th May – David Matthews in conversation with Sergei Rachmaninov – Listen to this A few weeks ago, I premiered David Matthews ‘Fantasies’. The fifth is a response to Sergei Rachmaninov’s Prelude op. 23 no. 5 in G minor. It’s wonderful to play. Enjoy! David Matthews – Fantasia on Rachmaninov’s Prelude in G minor (World Premiere) Composition & Craft […]
May 7, 2019
Thinking about passacaglias, divisions, variations, couplets, divisions: grounds for a discussion about solo violin playing One slight anomally about the way that musicians approach their repertoire is that the pursuit of profundity can lead to steps being skipped. Nowhere is this more true than in the the question of large-scale movements for solo violin. Immediately, […]
May 6, 2019
One of the most interesting, and for me, inspiring, parts of my work are the projects which I am engaged on worldwide which explore the creative process. Many of these projects involved long-term collaborations with young players and composers, and result in performances, new works and groups of works which are deepened by careful attention […]
May 2, 2019
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May 30, 2019