Tomorrow -glorious music by Tartini, Sadie Harrison Composer, Michael Alec Rose in ever astonishing St Mary Aldermary. Do join us for this intimate salon concert, and find out the connection between Tartini and the Mansion House...A Ask me ....
On the overnight practice desk: Sadie Harrison's exquisite Tremenheere Herbarium (written for Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens) which will play next week at St Mary Aldermary - link here www.facebook.com/events/10815...
Something lovely for your morning: here is the first chance to hear the fantastic Anna Wolstenholme playing David Hackbridge Johnson's exquisite Sarabande from his suite, with the Kreutzer gang. (and some gorse and heather in Cornwall a few days later!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKpV...
A glimpse into the Studio -David Hackbridge Johnson‘Sarabande’
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On Friday I spoke about the beauty of Elisabeth Lutyens' music, and how well James Turrell's wonderful 'skyspace' illuminated it (at glorious Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens ) Here is an extract in rehearsal www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BD2...
Counterpoints : Lutyens meets Turrell
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=McLI... Here is a very lo-fi sneak peek into the recording studio yesterday. This is the fifth movement of David Hackbridge Johnson’s deliriously joyful suite for flute and string quartet
A LOFI glimpse into the studio - recording David Hackbridge Johnson Suite for Flute Quintet
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Now why was it that I can't get excited about 'normal' concert venues...
More from 'A violin for Dante' - Bassano, with this week's glorious lunar eclipse 'And yesternight the moon was round already; Thou shouldst remember well it did not harm thee From time to time within the forest deep' Canto XX youtu.be/2xjUSuE6g3c?...
moon
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Another of Evis Sammoutis's exquisite 'Nicosia Etudes' in the studio - with the manuscript - mercifully free of my scrawl! Follow along. youtu.be/Bs6onagtj8U?...
Evis Sammoutis - Nicosia Étude 5# 'κλεψύδρα' - Peter Sheppard SkærvedIn the Studio
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More music for my 'A Violin for Dante' project for Minneapolis Institute of Art this month. Here's a new performance of Dafina Zeqiri Nushi's 'Sankta Catarina' which I played next to the Salviati tapestry in my concert at the museum a couple of weeks ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGTS...
A Violin for Dante at MIA Minneapolis - Dafina Zeqiri 'Sankta Catarina'
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The online version of 'A Violin for Dante', my collaboration with the wonderful Salviati tapestray Minneapolis Institute of Art, is growing. (Follow the link, for more music and ideas) www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2026/07/a-vi...
Wonder on the overnight practice table on Liberty Street . I am reworking all 30-odd Helmich Roman ‘Assagi’ (for my project with Staffan Storm & Rolf Martinsson) & freshwater mussel (Megalonaias nervosa/Washboard Mussel) from the Saint Croix River
'A Violin for Dante' this evening Minneapolis Institute of Art with curators Rachel McGarray and Max Bryant & Michael Alec Rose - whose premiere was a triumph. Such a privilege - and grateful to Nigel Clarke and Dafina Zeqiri Nushi for their pieces also played Photos: Malene Sheppard Skaerved
And, here is a raw take of Evis Sammoutis 6th Nicosia Etude, which I premied New College, Oxford last year Thanks to Adaq Khan for stellar engineering! youtu.be/JfxOpO3BTBk?...
And now - first chance to hear Michael Alec Rose's radiant response to Francesco Salviati's tapestry depicting the meeting of Dante and Virgil. Minneapolis Institute of Art 'either a shade, or a human for sure?' www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEnw...
A Violin for Dante - 'Michael Alec Rose - ‘Od ombra, od omo certo’
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Sitting on the steps down to the water at flood tide
First listen - a single take of Evis Sammoutis extraordinary 7th Nivosia Etude 'Cinyras'. 4 levels of simutaneuous pizzicato - RH on both sides of the bride, LH on both sides of the stopping finger. Col Legno,breathing,bow hair 'wooshing'. I love this mysterious piece www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyhR...
Evis Sammoutis - Nicosia Etude 7 'Cinyras'
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More emerging from my Dante project with Minneapolis Institute of Art . Wonderful Bassano - finding his, way, alongside Baldini's drawing of Canto 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmbx...
A Viola for Dante
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On the overnight practice desk. More preparation for the Dante project (this time with a Guercino twist). A prelude by Alessandro Ruffo, John Hoole's 1783 translation of Tasso, and the layout for the Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibit. Read here www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2026/07/a-vi...
My music for Minneapolis Institute of Art's Salviati tapestry of Dante continues to build. Here's some of the 'selva mesta' with Ortiz 'Clasulas' youtu.be/WOH0VTdiH8k?...
A Viola for Dante - Ortis - 2 Clasulas
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First review! 'The performances are (unsurprisingly) jaw-droppingly fine, while the recorded sound perfectly captures the rich complex tones of both instruments: the outstanding booklet comprises twenty-two packed pages of fascinatingly arcane notes.' www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/davi...
More from my emerging 'A Violin for Dante' project for Minneapolis Institute of Art. Here, my long-beloved Guercino and Tartini in conversation over three centuries with Torquato Tasso www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Tx... Thanks to Adaq Khan for the wonderful collaboration
A violin for Dante: Tartini in conversation with Tasso and Guercino
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More from my Dante project for Minneapolis Institute of Art Some beloved De Machy www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmsB...
De Machy - Menuet & Double Responding to Dante & Salviati at Minneapolis Insitute of Arts
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More from this week of recording and exploration. The first of my responses to the Salviati tapestry of Dante & Virgil at Minneapolis Institute of Art . Thanks to Adaq Khan for the wonderful engineering. A much loved chaconne by Colombi www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWeX...
A violin for Dante - Peter Sheppard Skaerved at MIA
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On the overnight practice table, the ever-wonderful de Machy 'le Sieur'. Here a Chaconne from the 1685 set. I am convinced, that Bach owned/or had seen a copy of these 'Pièces de Violle'. Pièces de Violle youtu.be/hmD-gIygJdw?...
On the overnight practice desk: Evis Sammoutis 'Nicosia Etude 6' which I premiered last year at New College Oxford, with pottery fragments from the nearby Thames today.Next week, we will be taking them into the studio! Here's our playlist youtube.com/playlist?lis...
More of our filming Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens - here's Jim Aitchison's 'Aperture' filmed by Immo Horn and directed by Malene Sheppard Skaerved www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwYA...
Jim Aitchison - Aperture
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It is Respighi's birthday! So a great opportunity to get to know THE great early-20th century sonata. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1uC...
From the archive.Respighi Sonata live in Munich
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Come to Cornwall for my September 4th performances at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens - Tartini, Saxton, Paganini, It's a heavenly place. Book here www.tremenheere.co.uk/peter-sheppa... Here's some de Machy in the wonderful Turrell Skyspace which is one of 2venues www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Tw...
Demachy at Tremenheeere
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