Audio of the talk:

This resource page should simply be viewed as a rattlebag of musical ideas which will relate to the themes which I explore in the talk

Quodlibet 

Igor Stravinsky – Three Pieces 1914 (1st Movement ) Kreutzer Quartet

Freedom and restriction

John Cage – Something/Nothing (live at Tate Modern-Peter Sheppard Skaerved & Mihailo Trandafilovski)

https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/audio/john-cage-something-nothing-performance

Concerted gesture as the music

Beethoven – Eroica Symphony (1807 Piano Quartet version) Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Dov Scheindlin, Neil Heyde, Aaron Shorr

The quartet as the model of a quartet

Bartok – Third Quartet (live performance) Kreutzer Quartet

Chamber music as charm and play

Beethoven – Duo 1792 – Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski (Live)

The hunt for colour

Schubert – D Major Sonata (Sheppard Skaerved – classical violin, Julian Perkins – Square Piano)

The challenge of counterpoint

Bach/Beethoven – Fugue (Kreutzer Quartet with Yves Savary0

Drama and shaping

Hans Werner Henze – Viola Sonata (Peter Sheppard Skaerved & Roderick Chadwick)

The composer leads a conversation with Bach

Bach/Michael Finnissy – Contrapunctus XIX Continuation

The Freedom of Counterpoint

Mendelssohn – Fugue Op 81 no4. Kreutzer Quartet

The merciless mechanism

Roberto Gerhard – 2nd Quartet – 6th Movement – Kreutzer Quartet

Quartet as habitat

Edward Cowie – 6th Quartet (Kreutzer Quartet)

Caprice and improvisation, precisely notated

Jeremy Dale Roberts – Capriccio (Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Roderick Chadwick)

Different planes, similar end point

David Gorton – Austerity Measures (Peter Sheppad Skaerved & Chris Redgate)

Ringing sounds and depth

Anton Reicha – C minor Quartet (Kreutzer Quartet)

Conversation with late Beethoven

George Rochberg – 3rd Quartet (Adagio) (Kreutzer Quartet)

Negotiating large Structure

Edvard Grieg (completed Finnissy) – B flat Quintet

The Human Drama -up close

Michael Hersch – Images from  a closed ward (Kreutzer Quartet)

Imagination, physicality, freedom

Simon Bainbrige- 2nd Quartet  Kreutzer Quartet