Modelling Collaboration: past and present
Audio of the talk
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Samuel Dushkin and Igor Stravinsky 1931
Peter Sheppard Skærved has collaborated closely with many great composers of our time – Hans Werner Henze, Poul Ruders, Jörg Widmann, Judith Weir, David Matthews, George Rochberg and Gloria Coates are just a selection of the composers who have written for him. In this first salon he explores some of the historic collaborations that inspire him; his teacher, Louis Krasner, working with Alban Berg and Schoenberg, Jelly d’Aranyi with Bartok, Ravel and Vaughan Williams, Joseph Joachim and Brahms, and to begin, Franz Schubert with his brother Ferdinand. He believes that our work with living composers can illuminate our understanding of the partnerships in the past, and those should inspire our present-day collaborations.
With John MCabe
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Louis Krasner at NEC Boston. Photo: PSS
Adila Fachiri and Ethel Hobday play Debussy (1925)
Peter Sheppard Skaerved plays Hans Werner Henze. A playlist
Peter with Henze. September 1989 (two weeks after this work was written)
Garrick and Jelly d’Aranyi arrive! Preparations for Peter’s ‘Only Connect’ Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery 2011
Peter Sheppard Skaerved plays Joseph Joachim
The young Joachim
Widmann – mid workshops sketch/fax 1995
Kreutzer Quartet plays Brahms Op 67
Johannnes Brahms-B Flat Major Quartet Op 67 (1875) Live Recording (1st Movement)
Poul Ruders – ‘Bel Canto’
The Kreutzer Quartet (leader PSS) plays Judith Weir
Montepulciano Summer 1990
Playlist: Peter plays David Matthews
My analysis of David Matthews’ ‘birthday piece’ for Richard Bram
Peter, with Aaron Shorr, plays Bartok (dedicated to Jelly D’Aranyi in Kosovo)
Schubert- Violin Concerto for Ferdinand (1st Movement)
Peter Sheppard Skaerved plays George Rochberg
George Rochberg with Marius Sheppard Skaerved. Newton Sq. , PA, 2001
Peter Shepppard Skaerved plays Gloria Coates Concerti, Quartets, Solo Works
Gloria Coates at Home in Munich. 9 3 17
PSS plays Widmann
WIth Widmann in Breitenbrunn, Bayern. 1993 (Photo: Bernd Noelle)
A favourite letter from Henze, on my desk. 2 4 17
The composer’s desk. Edward Cowie’s workspace, Cumbria 2019
With composer David Lancaster, workshopping at the National Centre of Early Music, York(Photo-Chris Leedham)
The workshop in London and Georgia. Working with Evis Sammoutis, on his Nikosia Etudes-preparing for Bergen International Festival and then more . April 21 2016
Shadows and staves. Workshop in progress, on Michael Alec Rose’s ‘Cararra Blocks’ with Ramakrishnan Kumaran
Workshop with Kreutzer Quartet, Michael Finnissy and Southampton University Composers. Turner Sims Concert Hall 7 3 16
End of the morning colour workshop-with reference to Widmann, Sadie Harrison, Nigel Clarke (Nigel, look closely at the stand), Henze, Glass, Sculthorpe, Lachenmann. Oslo. 24 1 15
Sketch by Paul Pellay for Book 6 of the cycle ‘Con(di)vergences’
Amy Senkrah with Liszt
Colour Workshop: Marco Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico. 2005
Bela Bartok to Yehudi Menuhin, 1944. Foyle/Menuhin Archive. RAM 27 10 15
Elgar’s hidden personal dedication to Menuhin ‘Adumbration, Admiration’ 1933 in the score of the Violin concerto
Bartok (at the piano) rehearsing his ‘Contrasts’ with Szigeti and Benny Goodman in New York.
Peter with the Zagreb Soloists. Dubrovnik 2002
Posted on January 24th, 2021 by Peter Sheppard Skaerved