The Great Violins, Vol. 3: Antonio Stradivari, 1685 - The Klagenfurt Manuscript Peter Sheppard Skærved

• Traditional:
• 1 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Praeambulus in A Major [1] 01:09
• 2 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Allemande in A Major [1] 01:03
• 3 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Minuetto in A Major [1] 01:51
• 4 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Finale in A Major [1] 01:13
• 5 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Allemande in G Major 01:17
• 6 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Courent in G Major [1] 01:32
• 7 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in G Major [1] 01:08
• 8 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in A Major [1] 02:21
• 9 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Praeambulus in G Major 01:16
• 10 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Courent in G Major [2] 01:33
• 11 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in G Major [2] 01:17
• 12 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in G Major [4] 01:21
• 13 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Preludio in G Minor 01:07
• 14 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Allemande in G Minor [1] 01:53
• 15 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in D Minor [1] 01:43
• 16 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Allemande in G Minor [2] 01:42
• 17 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Minuetto in G Minor [1] 02:13
• 18 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in G Minor [2] 02:10
• 19 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in G Major [1] 01:53
• 20 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Minuetto in E Major 01:33
• 21 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Praeludium in D Minor 01:24
• 22 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Allemande in D Minor 01:26
• 23 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Courrente in D Minor 01:23
• 24 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in D Major [1] 01:05
• 25 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Minuetto in D Minor [1] 01:08
• 26 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in D Minor [2] 01:21
• 27 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Minuetto in D Major 01:14
• 28 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Praeambulus in A Major [2] 01:33
• 29 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Minuetto inA Major 01:55
• 30 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in A Major [2] 01:22
• 31 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Allemande in A Major [2] 01:50
• 32 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Passepied in A Major 02:02
• 33 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in A Major 01:24
• 34 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Courent in A Major 01:01
• 35 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Double in A Major [1] 01:11
• 36 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Double in A major [2] 01:47
• 37 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Minuetto in A Major [2] 01:05
• 38 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Finale in A Major [2] 01:25
• 39 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Pfefferstossl in D Major 01:01
• 40 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in D Major [2] 01:14
• 41 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Praeludium in D Major 00:47
• 42 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in D Major [2] 01:20
• 43 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Marcia in D Minor 00:36
• 44 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Minuetto in D Minor [2] 00:34
• 45 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in D Minor [1] 00:54
• 46 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Courent in D Minor [1] 00:47
• 47 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Aria in D Major 01:05
• 48 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Courent in D Major [1] 00:52
• 49 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in D Major [3] 01:20
• 50 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in D Major [4] 01:19
• 51 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in D Major [3] 00:48
• 52 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in D Major [4] 01:46
• 53 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Praeludium in D Minor [1] 01:32
• 54 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Minuetto in D Minor [3] 01:20
• 55 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Courent in D Minor [2] 01:47
• 56 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Double in D Minor 01:44
• 57 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Praeludium in D Major [2] 02:14
• 58 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Allamande in D Major 01:22
• 59 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Courent in D Major [2] 01:24
• 60 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in G Minor [1] 01:05
• 61 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in G Minor [1] 01:21
• 62 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Double in G Minor [1] 01:23
• 63 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in G Minor [2] 01:13
• 64 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Minuetto in G Minor [2] 00:47
• 65 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Double in G Minor [2] 00:53
• 66 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Courent in G Minor 01:39
• 67 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in G Minor [3] 01:29
• 68 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in G Major [2] 01:43
• 69 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in G Major [3] 01:12
• 70 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Praeludium in A Major [1] 03:20
• 71 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in A Minor [1] 01:27
• 72 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Siciliana in A Minor 01:43
• 73 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in A Minor [1] 01:32
• 74 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Praeludium in A Major [2] 01:27
• 75 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in E Minor 01:13
• 76 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Minuet in G Minor 01:26
• 77 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in C Major 01:45
• 78 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in D Minor [2] 01:33
• 79 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Tema con variazioni in A Major 02:04
• 80 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in A Major [3] 01:27
• 81 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in D Major [5] 01:22
• 82 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in G Minor [4] 01:26
• 83 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in C Minor 01:51
• 84 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in D Major [6] 01:26
• 85 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in D Major [7] 01:28
• 86 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in A Major [4] 02:25
• 87 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Allemande in G Minor [3] 02:19
• 88 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Allemande in B Minor 01:00
• 89 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Courent in B Minor 01:52
• 90 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Minuetto in B Minor 01:14
• 91 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in C Minor 01:25
• 92 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in G Minor [5] 02:06
• 93 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Gigue in A Minor [2] 01:52
• 94 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Sarabande in A Minor [2] 02:16
• 95 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Minuetto in G Minor [3] 01:15
• 96 The Klagenfurt Manuscript (Excerpts): Courent in F Major 01:48
• Total Runtime 02:21:24

Info for The Great Violins, Vol. 3: Antonio Stradivari, 1685 - The Klagenfurt Manuscript

As well as being internationally recognised 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. In this new series, he plays music on these and many more instruments, many of which only he has access to.

This double album contains 96 (short) pieces which are all of the works for solo instrument contained in the Klagenfurt Manuscript, a substantial folio dated circa 1685 and which the violinist believes may have been composed by a nun – we will probably never know.

He plays these works which mainly consist of individual movements of a style typically found in the baroque Dance Suite; some seem to ‘fit’ into multi-movement suites, others clearly do not. For the purposes of this recording each movement is listed and tracked separately. This is the world premiere recording.

Peter plays a wonderful Stradivari instrument of 1685 (thus exactly contemporary with the music). In those days violins were made in several sizes and this one measures 328mm (the modern standard being 350mm). Its design and construction is clearly influenced by Nicola (or Niccolò) Amati. Though ‘modernised’ in the 19th century, it is here played with a period-design bow and gut strings for authenticity. The violin is from the historic instruments collection of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, England.

Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violine

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.

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