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Peter Dickinson: Chamber and Solo Works
Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin), Roderick Chadwick (piano), Kreutzer Quartet
There are four works for solo violin here, mostly long-lined and rather melancholy. The exception is the 1959 Fantasia, which is characterized by jagged melodic lines and leaping intervals....
Peter Dickinson: Chamber and Solo Works
Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin), Roderick Chadwick (piano), Kreutzer Quartet
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There are four works for solo violin here, mostly long-lined and rather melancholy. The exception is the 1959 Fantasia, which is characterized by jagged melodic lines and leaping intervals....
About
As pianist, writer and academic, Peter Dickinson – Lancashire-born in 1934 – has been one of the mainstays of British musical life for decades. Alongside these activities he is also a highly regarded composer, whose music, reconciling modernism and tradition, speaks directly to its listeners. This album presents works from the earlier part of his career, with an expressive range between delicate lyricism and wild, freewheeling energy, animated by a keen sense of instrumental drama. This recording was made with the composer and performers in close collaboration.
Contents and tracklist
- Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin), Roderick Chadwick (piano)
- Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin)
- Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin), Roderick Chadwick (piano)
- Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin)
- Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin), Roderick Chadwick (piano)
Awards and reviews
July/August 2020
There are four works for solo violin here, mostly long-lined and rather melancholy. The exception is the 1959 Fantasia, which is characterized by jagged melodic lines and leaping intervals. The Lullaby from The Unicorns, an unfinished opera, returns to the more conventionally tonal side of the composer’s personality. Peter Sheppard Skærved plays all of it with both verve and confident tone.
February 2020
I enjoyed and appreciated virtually every bar of these varied and sometimes challenging pieces...I look forward to subsequent releases
9th February 2020
String Quartets Nos 1 (1958) and 2 (1976) are felicitous, the unusual second notable for its prerecorded piano rag. Sonata for Violin and Piano dabbles in serialism, but also in Greensleeves.
