The Violin in Modena Peter Sheppard Skærved
Album info
Album-Release:
2022
HRA-Release:
14.10.2022
Label: Athene
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Artist: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Composer: Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692), Giuseppe Colombi (1635-1694)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632 - 1692): Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino:
- 1 Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: I. Toccata 01:01
- 2 Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: II. Bergamasca per la lettera B 03:07
- 3 Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: III. Ruggiero per la lettera B 02:55
- 4 Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: IV. Capriccio sopra li cinque passi 01:25
- 5 Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: V. Capriccio di tromba 02:27
- 6 Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: VI. Furlana 02:00
- 7 Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: VII. Passo e mezzo per la lettera E 06:20
- 8 Vitali: Partite sopra diverse sonate per violino: VIII. Barabano 02:57
- Giuseppe Colombi (1635 - 1694): Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts):
- 9 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Tromba da violino solo, Mus.F.283 & Mus.E.282 04:11
- 10 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): A Corde Doppie, Mus.E.34 03:10
- 11 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (1) 01:47
- 12 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Corrente, Mus.F.283 02:00
- 13 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Corrente a due corde, Mus.F.283 & Mus.E.280 01:12
- 14 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (2) 01:28
- 15 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (3) 02:26
- 16 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Sarabanda, Mus.F.283 (1) 03:49
- 17 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Giga, Mus.F.283 01:30
- 18 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Sarabanda, Mus.F.283 (2) 02:26
- 19 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Allemanda, Mus.F.283 (4) 02:43
- 20 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Scordatura, Mus.F.283 & Mus.E.282 01:12
- 21 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Ciacona a solo, Mus.E.282 03:38
- 22 Colombi: Scordature e composizioni varie (Excerpts): Passemezzo, Mus. F.283 04:30
- John Jenkins (1592 - 1678): Rost Codex (Excerpts):
- 23 Jenkins: Rost Codex (Excerpts): Allemande in D Major 01:50
- Anonymous: Rost Codex (Excerpts):
- 24 Anonymous: Rost Codex (Excerpts): Allemande in A Major (1) 01:30
- 25 Anonymous: Rost Codex (Excerpts): Allemande in A Major (2) 01:17
- 26 Anonymous: Rost Codex (Excerpts): CXI. Sonata in A Major 04:34
Info for The Violin in Modena
As well as being internationally recognized as a leading interpreter of music new and old, Peter Sheppard Skærved is the only violinist to have performed on the personal violins of Viotti, Paganini, Joachim, Kreisler and Ole Bull. He is a renowned soloist, musicologist, writer, painter and educator at the Royal Academy, and in 2022 appointed as Honorary Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music. This album features perhaps some of the best (certainly best-known) works by the top two violin composers working in Modena, Italy, at the end of the 17th century. Vitali and Colombi were both quite prolific and produced pieces of wide variety of form, not whittled down to the standard ‘dance suite’ of the middle and late baroque. While the Vitali works have been recorded previously in a version for ensemble, this is the first recording of the pieces in their solo format – and the same applies to the Colombi and anonymous pieces. The album is a fine and fitting sequel to Skærved’s previous solo recording “Florish in the Key” (Athene ATH 23211) which presented contemporaneous (late 17th century) solo violin music from London. “Genuinely intriguing” – Early Music Review; “Excellent… instantly attractive… uniformly high quality” – Infodad)
Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violin
Peter Sheppard Skærved
ist für seinen wegweisenden Ansatz bei der Interpretation alter und moderner Musik bekannt. Er tritt regelmässig als Solist in über 30 Ländern auf und hat bereits mehr als 70 Alben aufgenommen, von Solostücken aus dem 17. Jahrhundert bis hin zu ihm gewidmeten Werken mit teilweise über 400 Teilnehmern von Komponisten wie George Rochberg, Judith Weir, Poul Ruders, David Matthews und Michael Finnissy. Für seinen Zyklus von Henze-Konzerten wurde er für den Grammy nominiert. Im Frühjahr sind fünf neue Alben von Peter erschienen: Schubert-Sonaten mit Tafelklavier, Solostücke und Quartette von Edward Cowie, Sonaten von Peter Dickinson, das Gregory-Rose-Konzert und die erste Aufnahme der 100 Sätze der Klagenfurter Handschrift (1685). Seine Arbeit mit Museen mündete in langfristigen Projekten mit der National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, dem Metropolitan Museum, New York City, dem Victoria and Albert Museum, dem British Museum, der Galeria Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City und der Ausstellung „Only Connect“ in der National Portrait Gallery, London mit ihm als Kurator. Sein vom Bergen International Festival in Auftrag gegebener „Tegner“ – eine enge Zusammenarbeit mit dem renommierten abstrakten Künstler Jan Groth aus Norwegen – hatte Premiere in der Kunsthalle in Bergen und ging von dort aus auf Tournee durch Dänemark und die USA bis hin nach Svalbard/Spitzbergen. Peter ist Gründer und Leiter des hochgelobten Kreutzer Quartetts. Ausserdem fungiert er als „Viotti Lecturer“ an der Royal Academy of Music, deren gewählter Fellow er seit 2013 ist. Peter ist mit der dänischen Schriftstellerin Malene Skærved verheiratet. Das Paar lebt in Wapping.
Booklet for The Violin in Modena