More By Artist: Sheppard
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Andy Sheppard
Movements in Colour [ ECM Records / CD - released 13/Jul/2009 ] "Displays both Sheppard's lyrical imagination and the melodic knack of his regular bandleader, Carla Bley...lyrical, playful and accessible."- The Guardian (4 stars). |
Andy Sheppard / Michel Benita / Seb Rochford
Trio Libero [ ECM / CD - released 12/Mar/2012 ] UK saxophonist Andy Sheppard introduces his freely lyrical new trio, who all share a sense of stylistic open-mindedness. |
Andy Sheppard Quartet
Romaria [ ECM / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Andy Sheppard's quartet extends the musical explorations begun on the 2015 release Surrounded By Sea, an album praised by Télérama for its "poignant serenity." In this new programme of compositions by Sheppard (plus the title track by Brazilian... |
NIGEL CLARKE
Samurai (for Wind Ensemble) / Pernambuco / Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin) & BdSgt Ivan Hutchinson (trumpet) / Band Of Her Majesty's Royal Marines [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Oct/2007 ] world première recordings |
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Bley / Sheppard / Swallow / Drummond
The Lost Chords [ CD ] |
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard & Steve Swallow
Trios [ ECM / CD - released 9/Sep/2013 ] |
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow
Andando El Tiempo [ ECM / CD - released 6/May/2016 ] Andando el Tiempo features new music of wide emotional compass by NEA Jazz Master Carla Bley, and underlines her originality and resourcefulness as a jazz composer. Saints Alive! sets up animated conversations between the three musical... |
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow
Life Goes On [ ECM Records / CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] A striking album of new music from pianist/composer Carla Bley, whose trio with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow is now in its 25th year. |
HAVERGAL BRIAN
Symphony no 1 in D minor "The Gothic" Hpnor Sheppard (soprano) Shirley Minty (contralto) Ronald Dowd (tenor) / BBC Symphony Orchestra & Choral Society, etc / Sir Adrian Boult [ Testament / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] "Long available in a pirated recording of the broadcast, this live performance of the mighty Gothic has at last 'gone legit'." BBC Music Magazine, February 2010 *** |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: The Sonatas and Keyboard John Holloway (Violin) Davitt Moroney (harpsichord, chamber organ) Susan Sheppard (cello) [ Virgin Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/1999 ] The six sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014-1019 by Bach are works in trio sonata form, with the two upper parts in the harpsichord and violin over a bass line supplied by the harpsichord and an optional viola da gamba. |
Ketil Bjornstad (piano) with Andy Sheppard (saxophones) Anja Lechner (cello), etc
La Notte [ ECM / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] |
MAX RICHTER
Richter: The Blue Notebooks Max Richter (piano), with Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner (violins), Chris Worsey, Philip Sheppard (cellos), John Metcalfe (viola) with Tilda Swinton [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 8/Jun/2018 ] A 15th anniversary reissue of Max Richter's masterpiece The Blue Notebooks. Released in 2004, the album was written and recorded in 2003 in response to the US invasion of Iraq. It's become one of the most iconic pieces of classical and protest music... |
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Michael Sheppard
Rodgers/Barber/Crumb/Bolcom [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Nov/2007 ] |
Andy Sheppard Quartet
Surrounded by Sea [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] "Laidback and lyrical saxophonist Andy Sheppard's newest ECM project adds Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset to the Trio Libero lineup he shares with French bassist Michel Benita and Polar Bear drummer Seb Rochford, and uses the new member's ethereal... |
L V BEETHOVEN / FRANZ CLEMENT
Beethoven Explored-Volume 3: Violin Sonatas Op 30 (Nos 1-3) Peter Sheppard Skarved (violin), Aaron Shorr (piano) [ Metier / CD - released 23/Jun/2008 ] The third in the Metier series which presents Beethoven's Violin Sonatas in their musical and social context, alongside works by Beethoven's contemporaries and pupils. Here the op. 30 sonatas are joined by Franz Clement's Variations on Grétry's... |
PAUL MORAVEC
The Time Gallery Peter Sheppard Skaerved (Violin) Aaron Shorr (Piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] The Time Gallery, a chamber work in four movements, is among the latest installments in Moravec’s rapidly growing opus. A “meditation,” as the composer puts it, on various aspects of time, whether temporal duration, clocks, or human pulse. |
GEORGE ROCHBERG
Violin Concerto (restored original version) Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin) / Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Lyndon-Gee (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] "The Rochberg concerto is a powerful work with music of grit and emotionally fluency sustained across five meaty movements. It stands alongside the superb William Schuman concerto (also recorded by Naxos) as one of the finest concerted works by an... |
HANS WERNER HENZE
Hanze: Volin & Viola Works Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin/viola), Roderick Chadwick (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] "Hard to imagine a finer advocate for these alluring pieces by Henze than the remarkable Sheppard Skaerved." Sunday Times |
NIGEL CLARKE
Carke - The Prophecies of Merlin - Symphony for Violin and Orchestra Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin) / ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Neil Thomson, with Alexandru Cozma (bassoon) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] The Brussels-based British composer Nigel Clarke is renowned for his virtuosic style, and an uncompromising contemporary musical language that speaks with an authentic voice to today's audiences. |
HANS WERNER HENZE
Violin Concerto No. 2 / Il Vitalino raddoppiato Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin) / Parnassus Ensemble London, Hans Werner Henze, with Omar Ebrahim (speaker) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] Henze's Violin Concerto No. 2 occupies a space between the theatre and concert stages. A dramatic work with a rôle for a speaker, it comes from the period of his interest in 'action music' and is scored for a large experimental chamber orchestra.... |
